If you stumble on a certain neck of the woods around Santa Cruz, you might think you had wound up in Alice’s Wonderland. But it’s no children’s fiction novel you’re in, for there is a real place called the “Mystery Spot,” where things are not as they seem, where the law of gravity appears to not apply. It’s a real place. No yarn.
Visitors come from all over the world to experience the strange topsy-turviness of this supernatural-seeming wonder, though logic and science have yet to fully explain it. Once inside the circular twilight zone, spanning 150 feet (46 meters) across, one will observe a wonky wooden cabin with people feeling lightheaded, nauseous, or woozy inside; or struggling to walk and stand up straight. Balls appear to roll uphill; chairs stand up straight on the walls; and bodies lean to impossible angles without falling down. Indeed, in places, small persons appear large and large small, depending on where they stand….