Presented here is a contribution by Roger P. Graham to The Flying Rolls, Beta II June, MCMXLVII regarding to Santa Cruz Vortex. Enjoy.

(The so-called vortexes of the west, including the “House of Mystery” near Grant’s Pass in Oregon, a number of locations in the Ojai Valley, and the one near Sta. Cruz here described, have been the subject of much interest and baffled speculation. In Round Robin 1-8, Sept. 1945, we published a report, largely negative, by physicist Keith J. Hayes of Palo Alto. Interest in the subject still continues, however, and we now offer our readers a discussion by mathematician Roger P. Graham, known for his experiments on the ether drift. Borderland phenomena of this sort belong equally to science and occultism – which are only complements of each other – and hence are suitable subjects for Flying Roll discussion. Ed.)

The phenomena at this mystery spot are unquestionably genuine and impossible of explanation on the basis of delusion, refraction, or any conventional system of explanation.

The owners, not being scientists, are content merely to exploit the money-making possibilities, but they permit anyone who desires to study the problem, to do so.

I did not see Mr. Prather, the present owner and son of the discoverer of the spot, but I saw Mr. McCray, the manager. He was very cooperative, answering my questions without hesitation and offering to perform any experiment I might devise, providing I sent him the apparatus with instructions.

Dr. Compton, formerly with the University of Southern California, spent some time at the spot, digging a deep shaft which went doom to bed-rock which is of granite. He found the effects were stronger down there. A blimp was brought over the spot and instruments lowered slowly from it, and the effects were seen to extend upward for a hundred feet or so. I do not have the details of any report Dr. Compton may have made – merely Mr. McCray’s verbal account of those reports.

I am not acquainted with any explanation of the phenomena which Dr. Compton might have made. There is a news item posted on the side of the ticker office at the ‘spot’, in which an engineer explains the mystery as being due to a seepage of carbon dioxide gas from fissures in the rocks. If the effects were merely visual this might be a logical straw to clutch at. However, the most startling effects are nothing more or less than gravitational. These cannot be explained on a basis of refraction.

Those who have read my ether drift experiment will recall my assertion that gravity is the effect on matter of ether flow. Without going into the basics, I wish to repeat the conclusions concerning gravity which led to the experiment mentioned, in February of this year. (1) An aggregate of negative electricity produces a field called negative field. (2) An aggregate of positive electricity produce a field called a positive field. (3) A neutral aggregate of positive and negative electricity, according to conventional science, does not have an electrical field, since the fields cancel out. According to my basics it has a field, and that field is gravitational. In other words, a gravitational field is a neutralized electrical field.

Magnetism is produced by the rapid travel of electrons in a wire other material such as iron. It is essentially a patterned flow of either the positive ether or the negative ether, but not both. That is, e electrical fields are equal in strength, but one is stationary and the other is not. One field only has what might be called a vortexian motion. That is magnetism.

Theoretically, according to my basics, there can be two types of magnetic field. One would be produced by the rapid motion of positive electricity alone in a vortexian pattern. The other, and the one we know, is produced by the rapid motion of negative electricity in a vortexian pattern.

Neither of these could be distinguished by its effects. Each would have its north and south poles. Yet if these two were combined they would not produce a stronger magnet, but would cancel out if they were exactly in strength and pattern, and produce a gravity vortex.

This is exactly That has happened at Sta.Cruz at the ‘mystery spot.’ Somewhere under that spot is a large deposit of something. What it is, I don’t know, yet I can surmise. The reader is undoubtedly familiar with the explanation of an iron magnet. Each iron atom is a small magnet. The field patterns of the iron nuclei are such that the orbital electrons of the iron atom revolve around the nucleus at great speed. When the iron atoms are lined up, this motion adds up and we have a large magnet.

To have the other kind of natural magnet we would have to have,` molecular or atomic structures in which the orbital units were protons or positrons.

What this structure might be is problematical. It might be possible that a hydrocarbon of a certain type might produce a permanent magnet as the result of the orbital motion of the hydrogen nuclei about the carbon atom, if the field patterns of the substance were right. It might even be that in such a molecule both the electron and the proton of the hydrogen atoms in the molecule would evolve around the carbon atom, producing the gravity vortex from the one substance

It is interesting to note that the vortex at Sta.Cruz and the ones in Ojai are near large oil deposits. Oil is a hydrocarbon consisting of long strings of carbon atoms tied together with hydrogen atoms strung along the sides. If such a molecule were spun rapidly with its long axis stationary, and an aggregate of such molecules was lined up in the same way that iron atoms in a natural magnet are, a gravity vortex should be produced.

Since all petroleum is liquid, and molecules of a liquid could hardly be lined up that way permanently, there must be either some ex – ternal lining up of force, or, if the vortex is produced by the hydrocarbon molecules, the aggregate must be of some kind in which the molecules are not in liquid form. This might possibly be done by (1) the molecules of hydrocarbons being dispersed through some sand or shale formation in which they can be fixed as in a solid, or (2) the hydrocarbon molecules being much longer than those in petroleum deposits and being a natural solid. Then they could become permanently lined up in a concentrated form.

The strength of the Santa Cruz vortex is so great that such a deposit would have to be quite large. It might be far down, even under a bedrock formation.

The vortex at Gold Hill, Oregon, is not, so far as I know at this time, near any large oil deposit. That would not necessarily mean that there is no such deposit there, but merely that none has been found.

No doubt there are many undiscovered vortex spots in the United States. Are there others near other large oil fields? If so, this would lend confirmatory evidence to the tentative explanation of them being permanent gravity-vortex magnets made of hydrocarbons.

Just as the effect of gravity produced by a neutralized aggregate of positive and negative electricity (matter) is very much weaker than the force of the separated electrical fields, so also the gravity vortex mass would produce a much weaker field than the separated magnetic fields. Therefore it might be almost impossible to detect such a vortex in a small mass of the hypothetical stuff. It might take thousands of tons of it to produce measurable effects.

The only other way to-account for the vortex according to my basics (and no other basics account for it at all) is a new type of matter in which the nucleus has a negative charge and the orbital units are positrons or protons. Regardless, the final solution to the mystery of the vortex will certainly follow the principles of the explanation I have given here.

Can a gravity vortex be produced artificially? YES. Such a field is produced by every revolving wheel. However, it is too weak for any possible measurement. The strength of such a vortex would be to the separated magnetic fields in the same proportion as the separated electrical fields would be to the gravity field of the same amount of matter.

If all the negative electricity in one pound of matter were withdrawn, and kept in a compact volume, and the remaining positive electricity were similarly contained, and the two were place a few feet apart, their mutual attractive force would be perhaps billions of tons. In a homogeneous mass they still exert the same forces. A one pound lump of lead attracts another with millions of tons of force – and repels it almost the same force, so that the result is an almost undetectable attraction.

A mild excess or lack of electrons in an object results in a strong electrostatic field. It takes millions of tons of matter to produce an easily detectable gravity field.

A mild flow of electric current in a wire coil produces a strong magnet. If it were possible to get a similar flow of protons in a –Are without an accompanying flow of electrons, a magnet of the same strength could be produced. The two together would produce a gravity vortex.

To produce a gravity vortex artificially, it would be necessary to cause a large amount of matter to revolve at a very great speed in a small volume. A flywheel could do it if it could hold together at enormous speeds. Since it won’t, no measurable vortex could be produced that way. A coil of copper tubing in which hydrogen is forced to travel at incredible speeds might do the work. In that set-up it is probable that the resistance of the walls of the tubing would prevent great enough speeds.

It is more than probable that only by discovering the substance that produces the gravity vortex at Santa Cruz and other places, and setting up a huge black of it, can we ever produce a similar vortex intentionally, and thus prove the cause beyond all doubt.

However, we may possibly devise instruments to detect very weak gravity vortexes – perhaps instruments delicate enough to demonstrate the vortex set up by a revolving wheel with massive rim.

A whole field of scientific experiment is wide open here – completely unexplored to date. And vie have the evidence of Nature at Santa Cruz and Gold Hill to point the way, and stand as mute evidence to science which the accepted basics of today are helpless to “explain.”

Though the phenomena observed at Santa Cruz are fairly well known, We append here a memorandum concerning them.

1. At many points within the area, if two persons of equal height face each other, one appears shorter or taller than the other. This effect appears in photographs and Mr. Graham estimates the difference at about one-seventh.
2. A pendulum requires much more effort to displace it from the vertical in one direction than in the other, and the right and left hand arcs will differ considerably on the free swing-back (by about 6″ with the pendulum used).
3. A beard is raised at one end to form an inclined plane, by sighting along it at a nearby hilltop. A tennis ball placed on the low end rolls uphill, with a constant speed (after the first second). A cigarette placed beside the ball rolls in the same direction with the same speed, (no acceleration).
4. A ball tossed so as to fall over and beyond a fence or wall, returns from about the height of its arc and falls beside or behind the person tossing it.
5. There are also various distinct subjective effects, especially in walking up and down hill. Most of the effects seem to be in the nature of sideways acceleration.

We should perhaps add, that it is believed by some that the effects are due to buried mechanisms of ancient times, and a well-known occultist assures us that such devices have been seen and examined clairvoyantly.