![]() ![]() Humans have always been easily captivated by simple optical illusions, even the common mirage. Chances are if you’re reading this, you might not be too far from one yourself. People often come to the roads and watch as their car slowly rolls uphill. The bottom of the hill genuinely looks like the top. It’s no surprise so many have believed they were seeing an inversion of reality. The human mind is very vulnerable to illusion. ![]() This makes it almost impossible for us to accurately judge angles. It’s an illusion created when the horizon is obstructed, meaning we have a lack of visual reference. Really they are actually slight downhill slopes that just look like uphill ones. Before your own eyes you’ll see the ball roll uphill. But drop a ball onto the surface of this uphill slope and it will start to seem very strange. At first glance nothing about such roads will seem strange. It was believed this apparent distortion of reality served as a supernatural warning to turn back. Walking down a passage feels like you’re walking an incline. Enter certain tunnels and the illusion becomes apparent. All you would need to do to reach this other world is walk far enough into the cavern. To them it was a place of mythological importance, a gateway to another world. According to legend local native groups have long known about the cavern. The spot I speak of lies inside a remote Pennsylvanian cave. Most are natural occurrences and really can be found almost anywhere, even deep within underground caverns. Mystery spots can be found all over the world, from Siberia to the middle East. Thanks to the immense creativity of locals it came to be known as “The Crooked House”. Surfaces that appeared to be perfectly flat were simply not… Put your glass down on a table and it would just slide onto the floor. As the pub became more lop sided it became an accidental mystery spot. In the 18 hundreds, poorly planned commercial mining caused one half of an English pub to sink into the ground. Although the namesake of this kind of illusion it was not the first. But you should never let reality get in the way of a good story, and so rumor spread of the place without gravity. In reality it’s just an optical illusion, the house being deliberately constructed on a 20 degree angle. Others say that some kind of strange electromagnetic field exists in the area. ![]() Since that day gravity here has been distorted. ![]() Some claimed it was simply magic – that long ago a meteor fell from space and landed here. Over the years many explanations of this phenomenon have been put forward. Anyway, enter this building and it will be as if gravity has been suspended. I mean, no wooden building is normal, but you know what I mean. From the outside it may seem like a normal wooden building. You might have never heard of it but in the mid 20th century it was one of America’s best known attractions. The term mystery spot comes from one specific location. Such places are known simply as mystery spots. Often they went away thinking they had seen something supernatural. For centuries people have come to these places to see with their own eyes if the rumors are true. In every country there are places long rumored to defy the laws of physics. It is much less boring and much more Eskifyish to look at gravity from a folkloric viewpoint. I could make a whole video on that but I won’t because it would be savagely boring. So in a sense there are places with no gravity. With gravity of this planet pulling in every direction with equal strength, you get a net gravity of zero. An example would be the exact center of a planet. Yet there are places where gravity has no power thanks to other forces cancelling it out. As far as we know there is no where in the universe without gravity, even the farthest and most remote regions of space. I think it was Albert Einstein who said “Gravity is super legit boi boi” – and it turns out he was right. ![]()
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