Have you ever driven down Great Ocean Highway and thought “huh, I swear I just saw a car flying” but then it disappears right before you get a good look at it? We residents of Chumash and GOH call this phenomenon The Chumash Effect, where people believe they see things that shouldn’t be or isn’t even happening.
It is widely unknown what causes this, but two theories have become popularized among Chumash residents, one theory claiming that the Sprunk rabies scare from a few years back still causes hallucinations, another theory claims the hallucinogen mushrooms found at the swamp off-gasses and fills the air with light doses of the magic mushrooms.
While there is no scientific proof on either of these, the second theory largely explains why locals are constantly crashing, turning into your lane, and even many hallucinations happen once you get on GOH (Reports of cars with no drivers, vehicles driving through solid objects, random explosions with no debris).
As for the Chumash Triangle, planes have been crashing daily in the Chumash area which has no real cause to do so. Some blame SAFA for hiring incompetent pilots, other’s claim that Chumash has a larger magnetic pull than most areas causing the planes to malfunction. Whatever the case may be, it’s for certain that aircrafts crash an abnormal amount here in the West Coast of San Andreas, and we would like to get to the root of the causes.
Our photographers have compiled pictures of many airline crashes that have occurred within Chumash as evidence for the government that Chumash needs to become a no-fly zone due to the unreasonable amount of aircraft accidents in this area.
(Read the end of the article for a word from Useless News staff).
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