The day I visited the Oregon Vortex, I was driving comps on Sardine Creek Rd. As I turned onto the road from Hwy 99 I remembered that I'd been wanting to visit the House of Mystery located on the vortex, and decided after I finished my photographs of recent sales in the area I would stop and see what all the commotion was about.
Thank goodness I was working, because I had my camera with me and took photographs as we went along....otherwise this phenomenon (there is really no other way to describe it) is hard to believe.
This (above) is me on the far left with my fellow tourists. I'm always heads above everyone else and was always at the end of the line in school. No matter what you're seeing when you look at what we're standing on - it's a level platform. Notice how my eyes are about even with the hairline of the fellow next to me.
This is much more like what I'm used to it looking like. You can see clearly that my eyes are now even with the top of the same fellow's head. By the end of the tour I'd seen so many of these strange height-shifting, body warping phenomena all I could say was Whoa!
The house of mystery is behind us. It is sitting very near the center of the vortex. I can't tell you what to expect when you go inside, but I can tell you that one of the women on our tour was VERY strongly influenced by the phenomenon when she stood near the center of the vortex and had to move away from the center to regain her bearings.
The history lesson was fun, I loved being part of a live science experiment, and will look for an opportunity to go back again and see if the vortex behaves the same way the next time I go back.