Inside this zone, compasses and direction finders fail, phones stop working, and people easily lose their way and circle in place. In 2003, three journalists went in and were missing for a week before being found. The anomaly is tentatively attributed to a strong magnetic field formed by an ancient meteorite cluster.
Account
Inside this zone, compasses and direction finders fail, phones stop working, and people easily lose their way and circle in place. In 2003, three journalists went in and were missing for a week before being found.
Contested
The 2003 journalist incident is documented. The meteorite-cluster magnetic field hypothesis is speculative and has not been confirmed by geophysical survey.
Sources
- Jilin Daily, 2003 journalists-missing incident report