For a brief time during the 1930's, El Físico Nuclear made a living by travelling the country and misaligning the geomagnetic forces to create places where gravity and light were distorted. He then sold this property to people interested in promoting the gimmick as a tourist attraction. At such places, round objects and streams run uphill, and animals become anxious near the spot. Psychics feel a great disturbance near the center of distortion. I have provided links to a few of these places.
Knott's Berry Farm has a haunted shack that was moved directly from the ghost town of Calico, CA. Fortunately for Walter Knott and his family business, he moved it to another, equally powerful geomagnetic anomaly.
About 10 miles northeast of Santa Cruz, in the Santa Cruz Mountains a couple of miles east of S.R. 17, is an area of marked geomagnetic disturbance [...]. This area produces the gravity and light distortions seen at the Oregon Vortex and similar places, but is not known to the public. However, certain cults are familiar with it and have used the spot for performance of animal (and reportedly occasional human) "snuff" sacrifices.4
Now, of course, it has become quite a tourist attraction, having been reborn as the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot.
Ed Leedskalnin bought land where El Físico Nuclear was rumoured to have landed his spaceship, and, using the geomagnetic forces available there, created the Coral Castle out of 1100 tons of coral. Full of alchemical symbolism, this is surely one of the greatest of all of the manifestations of El Físico Nuclear still extant!
"Gigantic bonsai heaven" is a good way to describe this place; "Alice-in-Wonderland-ish", "like looking the wrong way through a Frenell lens", and "like the time I took acid just before I went to the dentist" are phrases that might well suit it as well. Drearily, the "experts" trot out the usual explanation: this place looks the way it does, and registers on geiger counters as anomalous, because of a crashed spaceship belonging to El Físico Nuclear. No one seems to understand that he only came to this planet once. If they could just admit that they don't know the answer, it would be refreshing...in any case, the Trees of Mystery is fun for the whole family, but you might want to take along some iodine pills just in case.
Here is a map of some of the many mystery spots created by El Físico Nuclear, linked to a website which attempts to debunk such places as mere commercial ventures.
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