Day of Adventure - Mystery Hill
OK, OK I have been lax… know this and with Vegas and Lynne’s 40th just a week away I must complete the Day of Adventure series so I can write about Vegas when I get back.
As I stated earlier in the series on one of the few family outings I had as a child my parents took me to the Blue Hole in Castalia OH (more later) and then up to Marblehead to a place called Mystery Hill. This would have been probably the late 70s early 80s. I remembered being awed by one thing at Mystery Hill and quickly in a geeky kind of way had the rest figured out before we had left the parking lot.
So I wanted to experience Mystery Hill again. Jim and pulled into the parking lot and bought went in and bought our tickets for the Hill and the Prehistoric Forest (which in the earlier trip had been a separate attraction and even though I wanted to go my parents said no). Within a few minutes the Mystery Hill tour started. Directed by a teenage girl who clearly had had enough tour guiding for the day, she claimed something about the strange powers of the area and directed us to two cinder blocks sitting on the ground. The produced a 6 foot level and proved that the blocks were level. She then asked for two people of similar heights to stand on the blocks and then change places. Sure enough the people appeared to change size. Here is a postcard I bought showing the sequence:
This is one one thing at Mystery Hill I still cannot explain.
Nest we went through the “House” where we saw water and a ball run uphill, saw a pendulum swing unevenly from side to side and where able to sit in a chair at quite an angle without falling over. Here is another postcard showing another mystery:
The whole experience was over in like 8 minutes. How did I remember this for 30 years?
We then moved to the mouth of a great concrete and stucco case for the start of the Prehistoric Forrest.
As I stated earlier in the series on one of the few family outings I had as a child my parents took me to the Blue Hole in Castalia OH (more later) and then up to Marblehead to a place called Mystery Hill. This would have been probably the late 70s early 80s. I remembered being awed by one thing at Mystery Hill and quickly in a geeky kind of way had the rest figured out before we had left the parking lot.
So I wanted to experience Mystery Hill again. Jim and pulled into the parking lot and bought went in and bought our tickets for the Hill and the Prehistoric Forest (which in the earlier trip had been a separate attraction and even though I wanted to go my parents said no). Within a few minutes the Mystery Hill tour started. Directed by a teenage girl who clearly had had enough tour guiding for the day, she claimed something about the strange powers of the area and directed us to two cinder blocks sitting on the ground. The produced a 6 foot level and proved that the blocks were level. She then asked for two people of similar heights to stand on the blocks and then change places. Sure enough the people appeared to change size. Here is a postcard I bought showing the sequence:
This is one one thing at Mystery Hill I still cannot explain.
Nest we went through the “House” where we saw water and a ball run uphill, saw a pendulum swing unevenly from side to side and where able to sit in a chair at quite an angle without falling over. Here is another postcard showing another mystery:
The whole experience was over in like 8 minutes. How did I remember this for 30 years?
We then moved to the mouth of a great concrete and stucco case for the start of the Prehistoric Forrest.
posted by Shannon @ 10:27 AM
1 Comments:
At 5:44 PM,
Mando Mama said…
"The whole experience was over in like 8 minutes -- how did I remember this for 30 years?"
LOL! So true! It SUCKS to grow up, Shannon.
Post a Comment
<< Home