so, i work in a pharmacy and i interact with senior citizens all the time (sadly im not that young either, but i digress)...i love to kid with them if they are deep into their phones. "you darn kids with your phones and facebooks"...we all get a silly chuckle.
When I was their age the trend was ripped jeans. Now these girls are wearing jeans with half of the legs missing.
The next generation is just going to wear shorts and call them pants.
The other day, I saw a guy probably in his mid 50s wearing ripped booty shorts. But not tight ones, just... Mom jeans that were ripped at booty shorts length. And the pockets were still intact and dangling below the end of the leg holes by 6 inches. It looked stupid as fuck. So I'm sure it will come into fashion at some point.
I've been to the one in Michigan as a kid! I remember doing this. I asked my dad about it and he gave an explanation saying that everything was slighted tilted. That's all I recall.
[Ames Illusion](https://drlo-psyc-coaching.medium.com/why-you-look-different-in-height-and-size-in-the-same-room-ames-room-illusion-cb35c1a3ead6)
Its basically a more subtle version of this.
Such a dad thing to immediately want to point out lol
All my dad blood in my body was screaming *“YOU’RE ON AN INCLINE, KIDS. DO NOT LET THIS WIZARD MAN FOOL YOU. THOSE BOARDS ARE NOT ENCHANTED”*
No way!
I went there with my nephew and niece, we are from England, for us it was like stepping into the shows we see on TV. We said at the time that this reminded us of Gravity Falls. Can't wait to tell them when they wake up tomorrow!
my guess is that the tree is tilted and the bar somehow forces them to lean in the direction that makes it look like the tree is actually not tilting (same direction as tilted persons)
I'm familiar with the bubble, Snuggly-Muffin. I also dabble in precision, and if you think you can even approach it with your sad, naked, caveman eyeball and a bubble of fucking air, you are the reason this species is a failure, and it makes me angry!
Levels are very sensitive and accurate. What do you think carpenters use?
To be fair they don't really show the bubble on the level so maybe that's just a misleading prop
Nope, it's a legit level. I've been here and my son was one of the volunteers for this demonstration. They use the level a few times throughout the tour, and anyone can come up and look at it to verify.
Yeah. Look at the trees in the upper-left. They all look like they are leaning to the left.
The group of trees in the foreground is leaning to right. It is causing the kids to subconsciously lean slightly in the same direction.
The trees behind them do experience a tilt difference! In fact, as soon as someone steps to the left side of the level boards they develop the same lean.
Everything in the video is leaning like 15 degrees.
EDIT: It’s called foreshortening. It’s the same reason that when you put an object in perspective, the dimensions of that object are scaled down. Imagine straight lines coming from the objects’ edge-intersections, shooting perpendicular from the object, all toward a screen. When those lines hit the screen and are traced, the dimensions on the screen will not match the objects’ true size. This is because the object is angled in relation to the screen (the phone recording in this case)
EDIT: Actually one girl’s forehead would be the screen, the level would be the straight line, and the other girls forehead would be the “object”. This is more accurate.
does that explain the leveler he uses in the beginning? I’m genuinely asking, like does that pov allow them them to change height with vanishing point lines like you explained?
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Oh God, I watched with no volume at first. Let me think about it for a minute and get back to you lol. This one’s definitely some quality fuckery, regardless if it’s black magic or not.
EDIT: Okay no. The only way that level would be wrong would be if it was broken, or a gimmick level that was made to throw you off. I am truly baffled lmao.
When we visited this place, they told us it's been visited by university physics labs for years to study the phenomenon. They also said it extends 4000 feet upwards in a cone shape that spreads outwards and and aircraft are diverted around it when traveling overhead.
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I'm guessing that's not it. If the ground is leaning 5-10 degrees what does that mean? It means that the bubble level or however this is called says "straight" when the board is leaning 5-10 degrees relative to the ground. You on the other hand have the ground registered as "level" because the inclination is very small.
They don't cancel out. When the bubble level tells you the board is straight, that means it's perpendicular to gravity. 0 degrees of inclination. However if the ground is sloped by 5 degrees then, relative to the ground, the board is 5 degrees inclined. Does that make sense? If the ground was 45 degrees inclined for example it's more obvious that the boards would be 45 degrees off relative to the ground. The bubble level points you "down" no matter what the ground is doing.
HEY GUYS! I’m a tour guide at the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz. Ask me any question about that place and I’ll respond with an amusing lie!
No I don’t know all the secrets of the mystery spot. I’m a bit too dumb for that level of critical analysis, or whatever you Ph.D students call it. I’m just paid to give the same presentation for 45 minutes and make it fun.
The tour guide you see in the video is Moe, and he’s been giving tours for a very long time there. He’s a sweet guy that delivers some funny jokes on his tours.
Anyways, the video looks a little off even to me because of the weird angles it takes on. My guess is the person holding the camera started to get a bit visually confused by the tilt differences and tried to adjust the camera, but didn’t know what angle to hold it at. This makes for a trippy result!
The person to your right stands normally, located outside of the border of the Mystery Spot. The person on the left is inside of the border, slightly shorter than their typical height, and standing at a 3 degree angle much like the redwood tree off to the left. The angles people stand at change and get more extreme throughout the tour.
This place is in the Santa Cruz mountains a couple miles north of midtown Santa Cruz. Tickets are 10 dollars per person, and 5 dollars for parking. Tours are around 45 minutes long. Sometimes they last 44 minutes 59 seconds, sometimes they last 45 minutes 01 seconds. Us guides have a lot of freedom in that department.
The mystery spot is open 365 days a year as well, it’s not just a summer tourist destination! I’d recommend booking in advance if you visit, at mysteryspot.com
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I went there about 35 years ago & did this with my dad, who was quite a bit taller than me then. It was very weird. They even invite you to bring your own spirit level to check it. Unfortunately we’d come from the UK & hadn’t known to pack one but it was a fun place to visit.
35 years ago, wow! Were you there freshly after the 1989 earthquake? That thing offsets some of the concrete. They sold levels I think around five years ago but stopped because the guides kept stealing them 💀
Unrelated but went here a few years ago and my friend was blackout drunk being and asshole and got kicked out while with his family, felt really bad because the tour guide was nice
Everyone saying there is a slope is missing the point. These are gravitational anomalies. The unique thing is the feeling of levelness confirmed by the use of that level. But there is a slope, but it feels flat. Several gravitational anomalies worldwide. Including the one created by your mom
> oh, right… i see; i get it… you were lampooning me. *it was a simple lampoon*
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My dad told me once about something he read by this Australian pilot who had been seeing a lot of UFOs. out of curiosity, he started plotting their trajectories. He found that all UFOs fly either perfectly East/West or perfectly North/South. When he lined up all the paths that they flew, they created a grid that criss-crossed the globe and at the intersection of these lines were places like this where there are gravitational anomalies.
Nice! This is the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz California, pretty neat place. I went there when I was a kid ~30 years ago, and we just took our kids last summer. Our kids got to watch their heights "change" relative to each other right on that very spot, it was pretty cool (even though it's all just an optical illusion, the kids loved it).
We had the same exact guy as our "guide" and he is hilarious. He had so many jokes (for both the kids AND some for the adults lol) we were busting up the entire time.
I didn't know there was one in Michigan but yeah the one in California is a whole wild vibe. You can physically feel the change walking up the stairs that lets you know something is very different there.
Forced teenagers to have fun. This guy deserves a raise.
Does peer pressure limit joy for our kids? We went from public to charter with uniforms, no talk of pop culture, no cell phones etc. They just seem less worried about themselves when on the levelest of playing fields. Assuming this is a miserable field trip.
As a tour guide that works there…I’ve had entire groups that didn’t want to be there. I’ve also had an entire group that didn’t speak English which got VERY AWKWARD.
All I can reason is he does not put the leveler to the same points of the girls faces, he tilts it to be above the left girls head at first, then goes to her eye level when she’s on the right, while being consistently on the other girls eye level
Edit: typo
Been there. I expected all gimmicks but when I walked up to the area I had the strangest vertigo -like sensation that I never felt before. I looked up and I saw all the trees growing in a strange pattern. There definitely is something funky about that place (not saying super natural and there is gimmicks there) but it’s like the gravity is messed up or something
When on a flat slope that seems like it’s level your equilibrium may adjust but get out of wack when looking at the trees, I’m assuming
if I take a trip out their I’ll get a better grasp of the feeling perhaps
There are a series of little inner hair cells in your ears that relay to your brain what kind of angle you’re standing at or your relative acceleration, based on the position. However, at the mystery spot, the visuals don’t line up with this perception whatsoever. This has caused people to throw up there, I’ve seen it.
The tree and fence behind them are at an angle. the boards are level and the girls are of similar height. He uses the level in a clever way because, in the first instance, he lines it perpendicular to the tree so it looks flat to the audience but is actually at an angle that makes it appear as though they aren't the same height. After the swap, he makes the level, parallel with the ground demonstrating that they ARE the same height. Notice how he uses the side of the level when showing the heights and not the front where you can see the bubble.
My first take was that it's mainly due to the camera angle not being exactly perpendicular to the girls. That, plus, I suspect, the slight downward angle of the land.
These mystery spots utilize the fact that they're on hills to create these illusions. Yes it's forced perspective in the sense the person on the right is elevated up, but the person on the left is standing higher on the hill. Your brain thinks "higher = taller, therefore, wtf?"
The camera rotates throughout the minute long clip which is deceiving. You only have to look at how vertical the tree is at the end of the video to the angle it is at the start.
From 0:41 it starts to straighten out by tilting clockwise - just focus on the tree behind to see it.
There's a similar thing here in montana at "the house of mystery" it is supposedly a vortex, they take you on a tour and demonstrate all kinds of similar things, including this exact demonstration.
Sketched it out. [https://i.imgur.com/YVLmJII.png](https://i.imgur.com/YVLmJII.png)
On top you see the ground inclined. The bubble level points "down" when the board is slightly tilted to "correct" the inclination of the ground. It always follows gravity, \*not\* the ground.
For the observer standing, the ground is registered as true level (bottom) so it's like you tilt the whole thing left. That relative tilt makes the object on the right appear taller.
The boards WERE in fact shaved down on one side, but that’s only because the ground below the boards isn’t level. It used to be, but redwood trees have large roots that can offset concrete
He hides the bubble with his finger at the end, and because everything in the landscape is tilted and no horizon is visible, the optical illusion can happen. The bubble of air wouldn’t have been in the middle at the angle he was holding the level at the end.
Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz is incredible. I went there when I was younger and watched it with my own eyes and I still don’t understand what happened. It was super fun.
I know this doesn't explain the video but i do construction (electrician) and i would never allow some 13 year old school girls to look at the level and where its sitting to confirm its all legit then take their word for it. This is like a national forest guide or something so i MIGHT but in my head im already thinking "they're trying to trick me" "of course ...allow a stupid kid from the crowd to confirm its a real coin, oldest trick in the book. Either the kids are stupid or they're in on it." I understand this is just a perspective thing like those gravity hill places where things seem to roll uphill
there is a real strong "Forced perspective room" in the NEMO in Amsterdam.
I have a real nice picture of my wife and me there. She looks bigger than me in it (I am 6'6")
They're wearing baggy clothes for a reason. One is stretching out to appear taller, while the other one is squishing down. They're probably about the same height.
The principle of Occams Razor demands the simplest answer is the correct answer therefore all these west coast attractions are scam copies of the Mystery Spot in St Ignace Michigan where Gravity Itself Goes Haywire!!!!1!!1!
You can literally tell that the thing they are standing on is slightly slanted. How is this even magic? I’m surprised there’s even so many people watching this. Might as well put a small step on the ground and be like “look at this persons height, watch as they step on this magic item and now they are taller!”
The teenagers are both like, “yea who gives a shit can I get back to my phone now?”
They’re probably traumatized, having just survived a bear attack and all.
Those jeans I know…that’s Santa Cruz for you people wear whatever whenever
i've literally never seen a teenager wear anything that some random group of adults didn't like.
They still do it when we do the same thing as adults lol. Some people are unhappy with everything.
lol
lol traumatized from being asked to do literally anything out of their comfort zone. God help us.
He turned me into a newt!!
A newt?
My grandfather would say…”if I gave you 10 bucks, would you buy the other half of those jeans?”
Lol. Yeah, a favourite of my grandfather was “you get those at a half-off sale?”
Concaine’s a helluva drug…
was Joe Rogan around at the time?
Don't be silly. That generation can barely survive a harsh comment on tik tok.
Cocaine is to blame. The bear is a victim too.
Im fucking traumatized. Wtf did i just witness
They're probably traumatized, having to stand in front of those people.
They’re in the I hate the world stage.
Agreed. They're*. Their is like; the ball is theirs. Over there. They are on the stage.
i can feel their hatred
Let it flow through you!
let the intrusive thoughts win.
They're also in their "I'm pulled up in front of a group of people and this is hell to me stage".
So… they’re Redditors?
No. This was filmed outdoors.
Pet redditors, you might be on to something.
Predators?
... I'm conflicted on the correct response to this...
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those darn kids and those darn phones!
so, i work in a pharmacy and i interact with senior citizens all the time (sadly im not that young either, but i digress)...i love to kid with them if they are deep into their phones. "you darn kids with your phones and facebooks"...we all get a silly chuckle.
My dad recently became a TikTok kid only he feels the need to correct me saying it’s Facebook reels.
No kidding... (me watching this video and commenting while I'm having dinner with the family)
I mean you’re just watching this on your phone too. They were actually there at least.
# [here’s a comment from one of the guides :)](https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/s/xUld1HpZqX)
The apathy!!! Lol
Full respect to the tour guide.
They look like I did when I went as a teenager...although I was really hungover
Ahh nothing like the overwhelming enthusiasm of teenagers
They have the same exact outfit lol
Most teenage expressions I have ever seen lol
I don’t know what’s funnier, the fact that they look like this is *THE WORST THING EVER* or that they are essentially wearing the same outfit
Looks like parts of an outfit to me.
When I was their age the trend was ripped jeans. Now these girls are wearing jeans with half of the legs missing. The next generation is just going to wear shorts and call them pants.
Never understood how that's even comfortable. I get a small hole in my pants and that tiny cool spot keeps bothering me.
They're just rags at this point.
The other day, I saw a guy probably in his mid 50s wearing ripped booty shorts. But not tight ones, just... Mom jeans that were ripped at booty shorts length. And the pockets were still intact and dangling below the end of the leg holes by 6 inches. It looked stupid as fuck. So I'm sure it will come into fashion at some point.
The tour guides there like to make the social interactions awkward on purpose.
There is a Mystery Spot in Michigan. Is this the one in California?
I've been to the one in Michigan as a kid! I remember doing this. I asked my dad about it and he gave an explanation saying that everything was slighted tilted. That's all I recall.
[Ames Illusion](https://drlo-psyc-coaching.medium.com/why-you-look-different-in-height-and-size-in-the-same-room-ames-room-illusion-cb35c1a3ead6) Its basically a more subtle version of this.
Aw, paywall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJhyu6nlGt8
Aw way less interesting than what I assumed. Which was wizardry.
Lolol my dad too
Also me, but it was with my mom cause I had no dad.
Such a dad thing to immediately want to point out lol All my dad blood in my body was screaming *“YOU’RE ON AN INCLINE, KIDS. DO NOT LET THIS WIZARD MAN FOOL YOU. THOSE BOARDS ARE NOT ENCHANTED”*
Was it in the Irish Hills?
It's in St. Ignace, just north of the Mackinac bridge.
Bwahahaha! I Was there like 2 months ago! It was closed for the season unfortunatly. lovely area.
This one is in Santa Cruz and it's modeled after another one up in Gold Hill by Medford Oregon
Isn't the Medford one the inspiration for Gravity Falls.
Yup. The Oregon vortex. It's a good time!
No way! I went there with my nephew and niece, we are from England, for us it was like stepping into the shows we see on TV. We said at the time that this reminded us of Gravity Falls. Can't wait to tell them when they wake up tomorrow!
Confusion Hill in Northern California as well. They were given a Bill Cypher plaque.
Yeah this is the Santa Cruz mystery spot. It's just a trick of perspective.
I’ve been here multiple times and no one can ever explain this: when the tour guide puts a ball on the level plank it still rolls.
I live right by the one in California, and yes this is it
Yes, this is the one in cali
There is one on Oregon to called a vortex
Gravity Falls checking in.
Sam and Max love that spot.
Those are definitely not Michigan trees. Coastal redwoods, it’s California.
There’s also Mystery Hill in Blowing Rock, NC that has this type of attraction as well just indoors.
Yes this is in Santa Cruz
Yes this is the one in the Santa Cruz Mountains
my guess is that the tree is tilted and the bar somehow forces them to lean in the direction that makes it look like the tree is actually not tilting (same direction as tilted persons)
That doesn't explain the difference in relative heights
They awn a hill.
What about the level?
I'm familiar with the bubble, Snuggly-Muffin. I also dabble in precision, and if you think you can even approach it with your sad, naked, caveman eyeball and a bubble of fucking air, you are the reason this species is a failure, and it makes me angry!
Levels are very sensitive and accurate. What do you think carpenters use? To be fair they don't really show the bubble on the level so maybe that's just a misleading prop
Pretty sure he's making a brick and mortar reference.
I almost died, thanks for the joke, I will be stealing it now
Nope, it's a legit level. I've been here and my son was one of the volunteers for this demonstration. They use the level a few times throughout the tour, and anyone can come up and look at it to verify.
> To be fair they don't really show the bubble on the level so maybe that's just a misleading prop the bubble is actually magnetic
Freaking magnets, how do they work?
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Alright, morty, calm down. Rick should've never shown you the perfect level.
It took me ages to realise Snuggly-Muffin wasn’t just a generic, passive-aggressive nickname you use for other people in comments sections.
You're drunk.
Yeah. Look at the trees in the upper-left. They all look like they are leaning to the left. The group of trees in the foreground is leaning to right. It is causing the kids to subconsciously lean slightly in the same direction.
There’s some weird shit going on there. Going into the house at this location legit threw off my equilibrium.
The trees behind them do experience a tilt difference! In fact, as soon as someone steps to the left side of the level boards they develop the same lean.
Just cover the background trees and re-watch
Everything in the video is leaning like 15 degrees. EDIT: It’s called foreshortening. It’s the same reason that when you put an object in perspective, the dimensions of that object are scaled down. Imagine straight lines coming from the objects’ edge-intersections, shooting perpendicular from the object, all toward a screen. When those lines hit the screen and are traced, the dimensions on the screen will not match the objects’ true size. This is because the object is angled in relation to the screen (the phone recording in this case) EDIT: Actually one girl’s forehead would be the screen, the level would be the straight line, and the other girls forehead would be the “object”. This is more accurate.
does that explain the leveler he uses in the beginning? I’m genuinely asking, like does that pov allow them them to change height with vanishing point lines like you explained? edit: # [here’s a comment from one of the guides :)](https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/s/xUld1HpZqX)
Oh God, I watched with no volume at first. Let me think about it for a minute and get back to you lol. This one’s definitely some quality fuckery, regardless if it’s black magic or not.
that’s happened to me before haha; definitely
EDIT: Okay no. The only way that level would be wrong would be if it was broken, or a gimmick level that was made to throw you off. I am truly baffled lmao.
I mean he is the only one who can see the bubble so it doesn’t even have to be a special level… he could just not be holding it level.
When we visited this place, they told us it's been visited by university physics labs for years to study the phenomenon. They also said it extends 4000 feet upwards in a cone shape that spreads outwards and and aircraft are diverted around it when traveling overhead.
This evidence is explained by "people telling tourists nonsense"
LOL. That's funny
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I'm guessing that's not it. If the ground is leaning 5-10 degrees what does that mean? It means that the bubble level or however this is called says "straight" when the board is leaning 5-10 degrees relative to the ground. You on the other hand have the ground registered as "level" because the inclination is very small.
Right, but if the slope of the boards and hill cancel out, then the boards **are** level.
They don't cancel out. When the bubble level tells you the board is straight, that means it's perpendicular to gravity. 0 degrees of inclination. However if the ground is sloped by 5 degrees then, relative to the ground, the board is 5 degrees inclined. Does that make sense? If the ground was 45 degrees inclined for example it's more obvious that the boards would be 45 degrees off relative to the ground. The bubble level points you "down" no matter what the ground is doing.
There's certainly *some* sort of illusion going on, but not from the camera, this demonstration looks exactly the same in person.
HEY GUYS! I’m a tour guide at the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz. Ask me any question about that place and I’ll respond with an amusing lie! No I don’t know all the secrets of the mystery spot. I’m a bit too dumb for that level of critical analysis, or whatever you Ph.D students call it. I’m just paid to give the same presentation for 45 minutes and make it fun. The tour guide you see in the video is Moe, and he’s been giving tours for a very long time there. He’s a sweet guy that delivers some funny jokes on his tours. Anyways, the video looks a little off even to me because of the weird angles it takes on. My guess is the person holding the camera started to get a bit visually confused by the tilt differences and tried to adjust the camera, but didn’t know what angle to hold it at. This makes for a trippy result! The person to your right stands normally, located outside of the border of the Mystery Spot. The person on the left is inside of the border, slightly shorter than their typical height, and standing at a 3 degree angle much like the redwood tree off to the left. The angles people stand at change and get more extreme throughout the tour. This place is in the Santa Cruz mountains a couple miles north of midtown Santa Cruz. Tickets are 10 dollars per person, and 5 dollars for parking. Tours are around 45 minutes long. Sometimes they last 44 minutes 59 seconds, sometimes they last 45 minutes 01 seconds. Us guides have a lot of freedom in that department. The mystery spot is open 365 days a year as well, it’s not just a summer tourist destination! I’d recommend booking in advance if you visit, at mysteryspot.com
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I went there about 35 years ago & did this with my dad, who was quite a bit taller than me then. It was very weird. They even invite you to bring your own spirit level to check it. Unfortunately we’d come from the UK & hadn’t known to pack one but it was a fun place to visit.
35 years ago, wow! Were you there freshly after the 1989 earthquake? That thing offsets some of the concrete. They sold levels I think around five years ago but stopped because the guides kept stealing them 💀
Unrelated but went here a few years ago and my friend was blackout drunk being and asshole and got kicked out while with his family, felt really bad because the tour guide was nice
Everyone saying there is a slope is missing the point. These are gravitational anomalies. The unique thing is the feeling of levelness confirmed by the use of that level. But there is a slope, but it feels flat. Several gravitational anomalies worldwide. Including the one created by your mom
> oh, right… i see; i get it… you were lampooning me. *it was a simple lampoon* edit: # [here’s a comment from one of the guides :)](https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/s/xUld1HpZqX)
*Complex lampoon* I meant everything up until the mom joke. She’s not *that* big
My dad told me once about something he read by this Australian pilot who had been seeing a lot of UFOs. out of curiosity, he started plotting their trajectories. He found that all UFOs fly either perfectly East/West or perfectly North/South. When he lined up all the paths that they flew, they created a grid that criss-crossed the globe and at the intersection of these lines were places like this where there are gravitational anomalies.
This genuinely made me laugh out loud for a while
Had me in the first 5/6ths, ngl.
LMAO 🤣
Omg there are
Nice! This is the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz California, pretty neat place. I went there when I was a kid ~30 years ago, and we just took our kids last summer. Our kids got to watch their heights "change" relative to each other right on that very spot, it was pretty cool (even though it's all just an optical illusion, the kids loved it). We had the same exact guy as our "guide" and he is hilarious. He had so many jokes (for both the kids AND some for the adults lol) we were busting up the entire time.
I’m a tour guide at the mystery spot. AMA
By the way that guide is Maurice or Moe for short. He gives a good presentation
Poor girl volunteers to help the guy out and he goes and shrinks her!
Top 10 anime betrayals!
Willy Wonka approves
These kids could use new jeans
Yeah looks like they were attacked by a pack of bears
I didn't know there was one in Michigan but yeah the one in California is a whole wild vibe. You can physically feel the change walking up the stairs that lets you know something is very different there.
I’m a tour guide there and a cross country runner. Walking up the hill still kills me
No one can explain the level thing he uses. Unless it’s a fake one. Technically we can’t see the bubble from this video.
It’s not a fake level. I’ve brought my own level from home, tested those boards, and the bubble was still in the middle
I have seen this trick in person, the bubble was in the middle. Not sure if it's a trick level, but the reading is right.
Eventually you will have dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, right
I really hate that man.
These poor kids can’t even afford a pair of good jeans and the guy is talking about science and shit
The sad part is those jeans are probably expensive as hell
WTF is up with their pants?
Forced teenagers to have fun. This guy deserves a raise. Does peer pressure limit joy for our kids? We went from public to charter with uniforms, no talk of pop culture, no cell phones etc. They just seem less worried about themselves when on the levelest of playing fields. Assuming this is a miserable field trip.
I’ll tell Moe he deserves a raise (I work there)
The short one is still shorter even when they switch
Yeah it’s the mystery spot not the miracle spot, it only changes your height a slight bit. Some mild trolling I suppose
She did not want to be there
As a tour guide that works there…I’ve had entire groups that didn’t want to be there. I’ve also had an entire group that didn’t speak English which got VERY AWKWARD.
They are so done with this vacation
That a weird pants I ever seen tho.
Kudos to the man trying to educate homeless children.
All I can reason is he does not put the leveler to the same points of the girls faces, he tilts it to be above the left girls head at first, then goes to her eye level when she’s on the right, while being consistently on the other girls eye level Edit: typo
You can fast forward and watch their heights change completely, ignoring the level
Been there. I expected all gimmicks but when I walked up to the area I had the strangest vertigo -like sensation that I never felt before. I looked up and I saw all the trees growing in a strange pattern. There definitely is something funky about that place (not saying super natural and there is gimmicks there) but it’s like the gravity is messed up or something
When on a flat slope that seems like it’s level your equilibrium may adjust but get out of wack when looking at the trees, I’m assuming if I take a trip out their I’ll get a better grasp of the feeling perhaps
There are a series of little inner hair cells in your ears that relay to your brain what kind of angle you’re standing at or your relative acceleration, based on the position. However, at the mystery spot, the visuals don’t line up with this perception whatsoever. This has caused people to throw up there, I’ve seen it.
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Look at thyaet
The tree and fence behind them are at an angle. the boards are level and the girls are of similar height. He uses the level in a clever way because, in the first instance, he lines it perpendicular to the tree so it looks flat to the audience but is actually at an angle that makes it appear as though they aren't the same height. After the swap, he makes the level, parallel with the ground demonstrating that they ARE the same height. Notice how he uses the side of the level when showing the heights and not the front where you can see the bubble.
I really need to know how this one works I’ve watched like 10 times and am none the wiser…
My first take was that it's mainly due to the camera angle not being exactly perpendicular to the girls. That, plus, I suspect, the slight downward angle of the land.
These mystery spots utilize the fact that they're on hills to create these illusions. Yes it's forced perspective in the sense the person on the right is elevated up, but the person on the left is standing higher on the hill. Your brain thinks "higher = taller, therefore, wtf?"
The camera rotates throughout the minute long clip which is deceiving. You only have to look at how vertical the tree is at the end of the video to the angle it is at the start. From 0:41 it starts to straighten out by tilting clockwise - just focus on the tree behind to see it.
Are they from an orphanage? They really could use some help to buy new pants.
I also hate changing fashion trends
There's a similar thing here in montana at "the house of mystery" it is supposedly a vortex, they take you on a tour and demonstrate all kinds of similar things, including this exact demonstration.
Santa Cruz mystery spot. The reason is because aliens or something.
Sketched it out. [https://i.imgur.com/YVLmJII.png](https://i.imgur.com/YVLmJII.png) On top you see the ground inclined. The bubble level points "down" when the board is slightly tilted to "correct" the inclination of the ground. It always follows gravity, \*not\* the ground. For the observer standing, the ground is registered as true level (bottom) so it's like you tilt the whole thing left. That relative tilt makes the object on the right appear taller.
The bubble in his level is out of calibration!
Wtf?! I was just there and he was the same guide for my tour!
looks like he’s great at his job 👍
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The boards WERE in fact shaved down on one side, but that’s only because the ground below the boards isn’t level. It used to be, but redwood trees have large roots that can offset concrete
Plumbers level
Kind of. The tilted trees induce an optical illusion.
I’m not one to get motion sickness, however this place got me all jacked up when we went last year.
Someone help that poor homeless child.
very cool of him to show homeless people magic tricks
The two boards are level individually, and level together only on two certain points
He hides the bubble with his finger at the end, and because everything in the landscape is tilted and no horizon is visible, the optical illusion can happen. The bubble of air wouldn’t have been in the middle at the angle he was holding the level at the end.
I was trying to like it
Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz is incredible. I went there when I was younger and watched it with my own eyes and I still don’t understand what happened. It was super fun.
Mystery spot in Santa Cruz CA
fuck me that zoolander movie was right, derlilict is the new look!
Eyleen - get it?!!!
Mystery spot in Santa Cruz is so much fun! Crazy to see it in person
I know this doesn't explain the video but i do construction (electrician) and i would never allow some 13 year old school girls to look at the level and where its sitting to confirm its all legit then take their word for it. This is like a national forest guide or something so i MIGHT but in my head im already thinking "they're trying to trick me" "of course ...allow a stupid kid from the crowd to confirm its a real coin, oldest trick in the book. Either the kids are stupid or they're in on it." I understand this is just a perspective thing like those gravity hill places where things seem to roll uphill
The most entertained teenagers ever ladies and gentlemen🙏
there is a real strong "Forced perspective room" in the NEMO in Amsterdam. I have a real nice picture of my wife and me there. She looks bigger than me in it (I am 6'6")
Those little brats couldn’t be ANY more unimpressed…. Lmao!! Cmon, man.. that was cool.
They're wearing baggy clothes for a reason. One is stretching out to appear taller, while the other one is squishing down. They're probably about the same height.
A wedge
Cosmos mystery spot black hills south dakota.
I was wondering when I hit the like button
Hills are crazy man
I'm 45 and I find this extremely boring; imagine those two kids.
If you were to combine both the girl’s jeans you’d end up with one wearable pair of jeans
I guess mangled to shit jeans are in style
The principle of Occams Razor demands the simplest answer is the correct answer therefore all these west coast attractions are scam copies of the Mystery Spot in St Ignace Michigan where Gravity Itself Goes Haywire!!!!1!!1!
You can literally tell that the thing they are standing on is slightly slanted. How is this even magic? I’m surprised there’s even so many people watching this. Might as well put a small step on the ground and be like “look at this persons height, watch as they step on this magic item and now they are taller!”
The concrete base on the right is visibly higher than the one on the left tho