Sponsorship opportunities available now. The Oregon Vortex and House of Mystery have been tourist attractions since 1930. This area's claim to fame is an alleged geophysical phenomenon, which causes it to be like a fun house of nature. Believers and skeptics alike visit here to test its authenticity, and the site has been featured in two television documentaries. Reports are that the area is strangely quiet because birds and wildlife also avoid it.
Trees are twisted and bent and lean toward magnetic north.
A feeling of disorientation causes visitors to feel peculiar. It seems to defy the laws of nature. An old, tilted assay office, originally built on the site by the Grey Eagle Mining Co. in the 1890's, is now called the House of Mystery. A mudslide moved it off its foundation and down the hill in 1910 where it came to rest in its present location against a tree. Inside, the peculiar feelings get stronger.