Hey legend trippers,
The first one I want to talk about is
Pennsylvania’s Ringing Rocks Park. In this unique place, located deep in the
woods of Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, is a large field of mysterious
boulders that, when struck, sound like bells, as if they are hollow and made of
metal. Each summer, hundreds of visitors flock here, hammers in hand, to
perform their own “rock concerts”. While scientists have determined the stones
are made from a volcanic substance called diabase, there’s no explanation for
their unusual ringing properties, nor for the eight-acre field itself, which is
situated high on a hillside, not at the bottom, ruling out that it may have
been formed by a glacier or avalanche. This is the only place on earth where
this phenomenon happens.
I’ve visited
this incredible place during my visits to Pennsylvania. It is free to visit the
site, but you need to bring your own hammer. There is also a waterfall near the
rocks.
The next mysterious place is Coral
Castle. Made from 1,100 tons of megalithic-style limestone boulders—some
heavier than the Pyramids’ and bigger than those at Stonehenge—this unusual
structure, located in the town of Homestead, just 25 miles south of Miami,
built from 1923 to 1951 by a single man, a diminutive Latvian immigrant named
Edward Leedskalnin, as an homage to the love of his life who left him on the
eve of their wedding. But how did he do it? Leedskalnin claimed he knew the
secret to the Great Pyramids’ construction, and was once witnessed levitating
stones. Other construction details—no mortar, precision seams, impossible
balancing acts—have also stumped scientists for decades. This mysterious place
has been featured on numerous television shows like “In Search of”, “Unsolved
Mysteries”, “That’s Incredible” to name a few. The price for admission is
$15.00 for adults and $7.00 for children. There are holiday special deals to I
recommend you check before visiting.
Mount Shasta is located right outside
of Redding, California, lies this beautiful and stunning snow-capped peak,
which is part of the Cascade Mountain range. The mountain located 60 miles
south of the Oregon border, has long been considered one of the planet’s great
“cosmic power spots,” luring everyone from Native Americans to Buddhist monks
and hippies.
This mountain of mystery is has long been a hotbed for legends and the unexplained. Along with numerous UFO sightings, there are stories of alien races living inside the mountain in underground bases. The two alien races associated with the mountain are the Lemurians, surviving members of a sensitive super-race some
believe existed 12,000 years ago during the time of Atlantis and the
Reptilians. The idea of aliens living in Mount Shasta was used by author Alexander
H Keys for his book “Escape from Witch Mountain” with Mount Shasta being changed
to Witch Mountain. There are tales of lost treasures and crystal caves in the mountain's long history. There has also been numerous Bigfoot sightings along the
mountain, making it a hotbed for crytpozoologists. There are numerous hiking
trails along the mountain. Unfortunately there are also reports of missing persons, so don't go there unprepared or alone. The mountain's mysterious past was featured on the popular television show
“Ancient Aliens”.
The Winchester Mystery House is without
a doubt the creepiest house in Silicon Valley. It was built in 1884, and was
built by Winchester Gun heiress Sarah Winchester – widow of William Wirt
Winchester, son of the first president of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
For over a forty year period, construction continued up until 1922 when Miss
Winchester died. A veritable hive of 160 rooms, the mega mansion is a 6-acre
labyrinth of false doors and stairs that lead absolutely nowhere – ad-hoc
additions reportedly made by Winchester to confuse the evil spirits of people
shot and killed by the firearms of her dead husband's namesake. There are tours
offered daily and an annual ghost investigation during the month of October. The
price is $26.00 for admission with price specials on holidays.
Bell Witch Cave is mysterious cave
and is located in Adams, Tennessee near where the Bell Farm once stood. The
cave is approximately 490 feet long and has been associated with the famous
Bell Witch haunting of 1804. It was during this period that paranormal events happened
to the Bell Family which some say was caused by the Bell Witch. The cave is
located on property once owned by the Bell family. Many believe that when the
witch departed, she fled to the sanctuary of this cave. In the particular
legend in which the cave is featured, young Betsy Bell and some of her friends
had gone to explore the cave. While they were there, one of the boys crawled
into a hole and became stuck. A voice cried out, "I'll get him out!".
The boy felt hands grasping his feet, and he was pulled out of the hole. The
Bell Witch (still invisible), then gave the young explorers a lecture on
reckless cave exploring.
There has been no written evidence to back up this story
on the cave, but ghost hunters have been conducted investigations in the cave
with surprising results. One group filmed mist that mysterious appeared out of nowhere
and was caught on film. There is a replica of the Bell family cabin nearby
where the poltergeist incident happened. The price for the tour of the cave is $12.00
or $18.00 for both the cave and the cabin. The cave was featured on the popular
paranormal show “Ghost Adventures”.
Oregon Vortex This curious site in
southern Oregon has attracted visitors since the 1930s. Measuring 165 feet in
diameter and is known for producing intense feelings of vertigo. Native
Americans referred to it as Forbidden Ground. Here, balls roll uphill, brooms
stand on end, and people appear to grow and shrink inside its centerpiece, a
former gold mining outpost called the House of Mystery.
The Vortex’s strange
phenomenon is well documented, and animals still refuse to enter its sphere. Skeptics
state that the whole thing is an optical illusion with other mystery houses
around the United States using the same gimmicks as the Oregon Vortex. This is
not true. Not all the strange things that happen there are seen in other
mystery houses or can be logically explain. Which is why every year thousands
of visitors come to the Oregon Vortex. The average price of admission is $12.50
for adults, children 6-11 years of age is $9.00 with 5 and younger are free. The
attraction has been featured on “That’s Incredible”, “SyFy’s Fact or Faked:
Paranormal Files” and “Ancient Aliens”.
Roanoke Island: is an island in Dare
County on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States. It is known the
abandoned settlement as "The Lost Colony." The island was named after
the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the
16th century at the time of English exploration. In 1587, the English again
tried to settle Roanoke Island. John White, father of the colonist Eleanor
Dare, and grandfather to Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New
World, left the colony to return to England for supplies. He expected to return
to Roanoke Island within three months. Instead, with England at war with Spain,
all ships were confiscated for use of the war efforts. White's return to
Roanoke Island was delayed until 1590, by which time all the colonists had
disappeared. The settlement was abandoned.
The only clue White found was the
the letters "CRO" and the word "CROATOAN" carved into two trees . Before leaving the colony three
years earlier, White had left instructions that, if the colonists left the
settlement, they were to carve the name of their destination, with a Maltese
cross if they left due to danger.
"CROATOAN" was the name of an
island to the south (modern-day Hatteras Island), where a native tribe friendly
to the English was known to live. Colonists might have tried to reach that
island. However, foul weather kept White from venturing south to search on
Croatoan for the colonists, and he returned to England. White never returned to
the New World. Unable to determine exactly what happened, the fate of the
people is become a source of legend. The price for a tour of the original
settlement and museum is $10.00 for adults and $7.00 for children.
Georgia Guide stones is a granite
monument erected in 1980 in Elbert County, Georgia. The structure is sometimes
referred to as an "American Stonehenge". In June 1979, an unknown
person or persons under the pseudonym R. C. Christian hired Elberton Granite
Finishing Company to build the structure. A set of 10 guidelines is inscribed on the
structure in eight modern languages (English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew,
Arabic, Chinese and Russian:
1. Maintain humanity under
500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely —
improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new
language.
4. Rule passion — faith — tradition —
and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with
fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally
resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless
officials.
8. Balance personal rights with
social duties.
9. Prize truth — beauty — love —
seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth —
Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
A shorter message is inscribed at the
top of the structure in four ancient language scripts: Babylonian, Classical
Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
To the west of the monument, an additional
granite ledger has been set level with the ground. This tablet identifies the
structure and the languages used on it, lists various facts about the size,
weight, and astronomical features of the stones, the date it was installed, and
the sponsors of the project. Each side of the tablet is perpendicular to one of
the cardinal directions, and is inscribed so that the northern edge is the top
of the inscription. At the center of each tablet edge is a small circle, each
containing a letter representing the appropriate compass direction (N, S, E,
W). It also speaks of a time capsule buried under the tablet, but spaces on the
stone reserved for filling in the dates on which the capsule was buried and is
to be opened have not been inscribed, so it is uncertain if the time capsule
was put in place. The guidestones were featured on Travel Channel’s "Mysteries at the Museum” and History Channel's "Brad Meltzer's Decoded". Brad Meltzer contained that the guidestones may
have been intended as a message to the possible survivors of a World War III as
the stones were built in 1979 at the height of the Cold War. The engraved
suggestion to keep humanity's population below 500 million could have been made
under the assumption that it had already been reduced below this number. Though
the monument is free to go visit, there are security cameras set up to deter any
more acts of vandalism on the stones, which unfortunately has happened numerous
times.
Remember legend trippers, there is a whole lot of mysterious places to visit. Now get up and go out and see them.
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