Incredible Shrinking Mill

As you drive closer to the mill, it actually seems to move further away! An incredible optical illusion, located in Port Colborne, Ontario, on the shores of Lake Erie.

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• shrinking
• mill
• optical
• illusion
• port
• colborne

[RockinBray]

YOU ALMOST RAN OVER THE SQUIRREL!!!!!!

[v1m]

The mill has the last laugh.

[NinjaDarknessXx]

SQUIRREL!!!!

[xthedon]

The road gives you your first view off the mill as you are only about 1/4 a mile away from the turn. Driving that quarter mile isnt enough to change the apparent size of the mill because of the far greater distance to it. But the closer you get, the smaller the other road objects get at the end of the road before it turns, and it tricks your mind into the illusion that the mill is getting smaller. Although this and the other videos dont really show it as well.

[billmcb]

(...look out for that squirrel!...)

[awsomesauce19]

come to port colborne we have shrinking mills and some other shit

[goss1961]

I grew up just around the corner there and we noticed that when we were kids in the 1960s.

[TheExeter]

The trees on both sides of the street create this "tunnel vision". The mill stays the same size, but because at first the opening at the end of this "tunnel" allows a hole big enough to see a part of the mill, as you get closer the hole gets larger, allowing you to see more of the mill, therefore tricking your eyes to make you r brain think that it is shrinking. Going the other way is even better!

[Canadasvt]

Ah, squirrels in Ontario.

[billmcb]

(...How many times have I travelled that very road?!...)

Bill McBirnie