Nature gone berserk. A location where the natural laws of physics don't seem to cooperate with the rest of the world.*****
This was a stop on our recent vacation, and normally I wouldn't list vacation spots in my entertainment journal, but this tourist attraction was much more akin to a P.T. Barnum hook than to any natural wonder (such as Wind Cave or Devil's Tower or the Badlands).
For the most part, it was quite easy to detect how the set-up here relied greatly on optical illusion and the confusing of the senses to create the mystery.
One spot that I couldn't quite figure out how it worked was when they had two people stand on slabs, facing each other. The person standing on the uphill slab appeared quite a bit shorter, even if that person was normally taller (see photos to the left). The illusion started with the guide placing a level on both ends of the slabs to show that they were on an equal plane.Of course, we were moved along pretty quickly, so I couldn't stop to really look to try and figure it out.
The kids enjoyed this stop on the vacation trip, immensely. I found it to be mostly sham, but moderately fun, though probably not worth the money.
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