Confusion Hill is located at 75001 North Hwy. 101, Piercy, California. It was originally a logging camp. The shack was constructed in 1949 as a tourist attraction by its developer George Hudson. The two-room shack seems to be modeled after the Oregon Vortex shack.
Figure 11: Location map of Confusion Hill, Piercy California.
The operators of the attraction say the gravitational anomaly appears to be about 100¢ in diameter. The scope of our experiment was such that it was not intended to measure variation in the vortexes’ size.
We arrived at the attraction at 11:26 AM on June 6, 1996. A new 9 volt battery was put into the crystal frequency source. It was 12:10 PM when the frequency counter, cable, and crystal was set up. The frequency counter was turned on for about twenty minutes before it was connected to the crystal via the cable. Both, I believe were outside the vortex. We spent about 30 minutes probing the vortex looking for the center. At first it was not known whether the frequency would shift up or down near the center. I did notice the fluctuation in the frequency counter when the crystal was first introduced near and in the vortex. I began to call this phenomenon the “Jell-O effect” which I will explain in-depth in Chapter 7.
There was no tour guide in the attraction and the store manager did not know where the center was or where the edges of the anomaly were.
The frequency counter was placed at 90¢ away from what was thought to be the center. Only the 113¢ coax cable was used. At 12:52 PM the experiment started.
Experimental test run number 1 started at 12:52 PM. Measurement started at the 75¢ mark and proceeded toward the center in a west to east direction. The frequency counter started at 24,997,977 Hz. The graphs only display the last four numbers (7,977 Hz.). The frequency inside was lower than outside by 27 hertz. The lowest frequency was reached at the 20¢ mark.
Table 13: Run number 1; measuring frequency from the 75¢ mark into the center of the vortex using 113¢ of cable. Start time: 12:52 PM. Duration of the experiment: 7 minutes.
The second run started at the 75¢ mark and then proceeded to the center. The frequency inside was lower than outside, but the frequency range was only 9 hertz over 75¢, so no conclusion can be reached in this run.
Table 14: Run number 2; measuring frequency from the 75¢ mark into the center of the vortex using 113¢ of cable. Start time: 1:06 PM. Duration of the experiment: 8 minutes.
The third run started at the 75¢ mark and proceeded to the center and then 10 feet beyond. The frequency inside was lower than outside by 27 hertz. The lowest frequency was reached at the 10¢ mark. At the 35¢ mark there was a frequency fluctuation ranging from 24,997,998 to 24,998,128 hertz. Another fluctuation occurred at 10¢ and 5¢ but was only 6 hertz and 2 hertz, respectively. The average or most predominant frequency was recorded. The frequency difference between outside and inside was 69 hertz. This was a fairly large difference.
Table 15: Run number 3; measuring frequency from the 75¢ mark to -10¢ mark of the vortex using 113¢ of cable. Start time: 1:33 PM. Duration of the experiment: 16 minutes.
The fourth run measured from the center, then out to the 70¢ mark. The frequency went down, as the crystal was brought outside of the anomaly. This was the first time, at this location, that the frequency changed direction uniformly. The frequency difference between inside and out was 9 hertz. This is not much of a difference, but the frequency counter was very stable and it was recording a real change.
Table 16: Run number 4; measuring frequency from the center to the 70¢ mark of the vortex. Start time 1:50 PM. Duration of the experiment 7 minutes.
We performed another run outside of the vortex and perpendicular to the center to see if the equipment was performing properly and get another check, as to where the edge of the vortex was. That experiment started at 2:05 PM and lasted 10 minutes. Measurements were taken every 10¢, starting at 80¢ south of the gift shop and going to the back of the gift shop. There is a twisted redwood tree at the back of the gift shop (Figure 15) so some influence is present there. The result of that run was the frequency went from 24,997,961 at the 80¢ mark to 24,997,964 by the twisted tree. A difference of only 4 hertz. So I was pretty confident we were getting good data.
After my observations at the Oregon Vortex I added one experiment, that being measuring for dynamic changing over time. The crystal was left at the 20¢ mark for 2 hours and 40 minutes. Table 17 shows the frequency changes over that time period. The frequency change was 37 hertz.
Table 17: Measuring frequency from the 20¢ mark from the center of the vortex using 113¢ of cable. The experiment started at: 3:16 PM. Duration of the experiment: 160 minutes.