List of magnetic hills

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A magnetic, or gravity hill is an optical illusion where a downwards slope appears upwards. This article is a list of such locations. Many have no specific name and are instead often simply referred to as 'Gravity Hill' or 'Magnetic Hill'.

Magnetic Hill in Orroroo, South Australia
Magnetic Hill in Orroroo, South Australia

Contents

[edit] Australia

[edit] Belize

[edit] Brazil

[edit] Canada

[edit] China

  • Gansu; a 200ft (60m) slope at an angle of 15 degrees where water runs uphill, in a desert region of Yugur County. The site has been tested by scientists, including physics professor Fang Xiaoming from Lanzhou University, who, according to reports, was "unable to explain the phenomenon".[11]

[edit] Cyprus

  • Approx 1km outside the village of Droushia, in the North West, on the road from Kathikas to Polis.

[edit] Dominican Republic

[edit] France

[edit] Germany

[edit] Greece

[edit] India

[edit] Indonesia

[edit] Ireland

[edit] Isle of Man

  • Between Ballabeg and the Round Table, called Magnetic Hill.[17]

[edit] Italy

[edit] Jordan

  • Jordan Street in Amman. A hill on the right of Ministry of Higher Education Building. Check Youtube on Jordan Street

[edit] Kenya

[edit] Lebanon

  • Tripoli. An off-road to the right of the main Highway to Tripoli.

[edit] Malaysia

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Philippines

[edit] Poland

[edit] Portugal

[edit] Serbia

[edit] South Africa

  • Johannesburg; Lombardy East, Modderfontein Road c/o Curie Road. When entering Lombardy East from the east (i.e. Edenvale) end, a car left in neutral rolls towards oncoming (Eastbound) traffic.

[edit] South Korea

[edit] Trinidad and Tobago

[edit] United Kingdom

The cairn at the Electric Brae in Ayrshire, Scotland
The cairn at the Electric Brae in Ayrshire, Scotland

[edit] England

[edit] Scotland

[edit] Northern Ireland

[edit] United States

[edit] Alabama

[edit] Alaska

  • Anchorage, Alaska Head east on O'malley road and take a right near the top onto Hillside drive. Head south for one mile and take a left onto Upper Huffman road. Continue up the wavy road to a fork in the road. Turn around and head back down. The first hill going up on the downslope is drivable in neutral.

[edit] Arkansas

[edit] California

Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz, California
Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz, California
  • Antioch, California; Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. Exit Highway 4 at Sommersville South, follow it until the road runs out. The mine road begins approximately 1.5 to 2.0 miles into the park after passing the information booth.
  • Buena Park, California; Knott's Berry Farm, The Haunted Shack, torn down several years ago. A pay ride called Screamin' Swing now inhabits the spot.[30]
  • Buena Park, California: At the end of San Lucas Circle facing south. Street is level, yet car will start rolling after 1-2 minutes in neutral.[citation needed] Girl on foot was killed when a drunk driver hit her in the early 90s.[citation needed]
  • Corona, California: On Gilbert Ave going north between Hidden Springs Drive and Cleveland Way.
  • Devore, California: On Glen Helen road pass two consecutive train tracks and end up at a stop sign. Make a U-Turn and head towards back towards the tracks, but stop the car at the beginning of a chain link fence on the left hand (driver) side and put the car in neutral, it may take a little bit of time, but the car will roll toward the train tracks. The car will stop at one point, but once stopped drive it to the "railroad sign" and put the car back in neutral.[31][32]
  • La Jolla, San Diego, California;
  • Lake View Terrace, Los Angeles, California;[33]
  • Livermore, California; Patterson's Pass Road
  • Ocotillo, California; on the 805 west just before Boulevard, California on the San Diego and Imperial county line, leave the mountain spring road, drive down the incline and place the car in neutral.
  • San Diego, California; The exit ramp in Mira Mesa/Sorrento Valley while going 805-S is a gravity hill. Testers should be cautious, considering it is a freeway exit.[34]
  • Antioch, California; on Empire Mine Road. This road has since been closed to the public. From East/West exit Highway 4 at Lone Tree Way, turn right on Deer Valley Road, turn right on Empire Mine Road. From South, take Ygnacio Valley Road, right on Clayton Road which becomes Marsh Creek Road, left on Deer Valley, left on Empire Mine Road.
  • Livermore, California On Patterson Pass road, between Livermore and Tracy. On road marker 752 headed towards Tracy.[35]
  • Moreno Valley, California Nason Street exit off CA-60. Four-way cross street at bottom of overpass. put car in neutral at bottom of over pass and the car will roll up and over the pass.[36]
  • Santa Paula, California On the CA 126 headed West. Make a right on the road just before the little red school house.
  • Sonoma County, California From US 101 Freeway, take Rohnert Park Expressway east to Petaluma Hill Road. Petaluma Hill Road south to Roberts Road. Roberts road east to Lichau Road. At an iron gate with the words, "Gracias Santiago," is the start of the gravity hill section (located on the western slope of Sonoma Mountain near the Fairfield Osborn Preserve).[37]
  • Santa Cruz, California; Mystery Spot at 465 Mystery Spot Road is a spot about 150 feet in diameter located in a redwood forest.[38]
  • Spring Valley, California La Presa St. north of Jamacha Rd. Not as good as before houses were built there.
  • Vallejo, California Lake Herman Road off Columbus Parkway. Spot is at the bottom of the first hill where the road merges into single lanes.
  • Whittier, California; Rose Hills Cemetery. there is a steep incline in which water seems to flows uphill and cars do not roll down the hill.
  • Moorpark, California[39]
  • Oak Glen, California; Oak Glen Road past Oak Glen.
  • Pasadena, California: go up porter from altadena drive make left on Loma Alta, and go all the way till you reach a hillside with a lone light post. it is also noted that you should put white powder on your trunk/bumper

[edit] Connecticut

  • Sterling, Connecticut.[40]
  • Trumbull, Connecticut: Exit 7 on Route 25 North. Stop the car on the crack a few feet behind the stop line and it will roll backwards "up" the ramp. In the 19th century, a railroad bed that existed at what is the current intersection of White Plains Rd. and the exit ramp. A section of this rail bed has been preserved as a nature walk, locally known as "the valley." Legend has it that a school bus full of children was stuck on the tracks and was struck by an oncoming train. Today, the spirits of those who perished are still attempting to rescue those stopped in the same spot they were.

[edit] Florida

Spook Hill, Lake Wales, Florida
Spook Hill, Lake Wales, Florida

[edit] Georgia

[edit] Hawaii

  • Honolulu, Hawaii: Acid Hill, Poola St, off Kalanianaole Hwy East Oahu before Kuaiwi Place below Ancient Hawaiian Heiau: Before residential expansion, this area was a cul de sac and was much easier to test. The area is a level area of roadway after climbing the hill following the hairpin turn (approx. 500m after Puahia Pl) just before the gated community. Face the car towards the ocean. Legend has it that the Ancient Hawaiian spirits of the Heiau help move the car.

[edit] Indiana

  • Mooresville, Indiana; starting in Mooresville, head West out of town on High Street (2 blocks South of Main), which becomes State Road 42. Take the first right onto Keller Hill Road, and go approximately 1 mile over a few small hills. Stop at the big hill, there is a silo right before arrival at Gravity Hill. Line up the front with the large old tree on the right, and put it in neutral. The car will roll up the hill.[45]

[edit] Iowa

  • Estherville, Iowa: Drive about 1 mile south from Shullsburg past the water tower on City. U. Stop next to the curve/25 mph sign. Put the vehicle in neutral and roll backward up the hill.

[edit] Idaho

  • Post Falls, Idaho: Take Spokane street exit and head south. Take a left on Schilling loop, past W. Margishward road. Head south about 0.2 miles.
  • Grangeville, Idaho: Mount Idaho Grade Road, heading North just before Highway 13 (Main Street).

[edit] Kentucky

[edit] Maryland

  • Burkittsville, Maryland: Gapland Road about a quarter mile west of town. It appears that vehicles roll 'uphill' east toward the center of town.

[edit] Massachusetts

[edit] Michigan

[edit] Minnesota

[edit] Mississippi

[edit] Missouri

[edit] New Jersey

[edit] New York

[edit] North Carolina

[edit] Ohio

[edit] Oklahoma

[edit] Oregon

[edit] Pennsylvania

[edit] South Dakota

[edit] Texas

  • El Paso, Texas: Thunderbird Drive facing south.[71]
  • San Antonio, Texas: At the corner of Villamain and Shane Roads. Travel west on Shane Road to a flat area before a railroad track just east of the right turn onto Villamain. Putting the car in neutral which will cause the car to roll up and over the railroad tracks. Urban legend has it that the ghosts of children killed at the intersection are pushing the car over the tracks, and that powdering the back of the car will reveal their handprints. When performing this experiment, any handprints that might appear were probably already there; the powder allowed them to show up. This area is known as the Ghost Tracks to locals, and the subdivision adjacent to it supposedly has its streets named after the children who died on the tracks in a schoolbus accident with a train in that spot. It is a popular place to take a date on Halloween night. Traffic backs up for half a mile waiting their turn over the tracks. [72]

[edit] Tennessee

[edit] Utah

  • Salt Lake City, Utah: A few blocks northeast of the Capitol building in Salt Lake City. Several internet sources say that the hill is northwest of the Capitol building, but it is in fact just northeast. Driving up past the capitol building, with the capitol to the driver's west, there is a small road (Bonneville Blvd.) that loops around a park in lower City Creek Canyon called Memory Grove. The road forms a large "U" and comes out at a nearly equal elevation on the other side of the canyon in a part of town known as "The Avenues" at the intersection of 11th. Avenue and B Street. Unfortunately, what used to be a two-way road was recently converted into a one way street, which goes the opposite direction of the way needed to experience the "paranormal effects" of the gravity hill. However, going the way the road now requires does produce a weird effect. It appears that the car is going downhill while actually gaining in elevation from the valley floor. Although Bonneville Blvd. may be a one-way road, a bicycle can be ridden in either direction.[73]

[edit] Virginia

[edit] West Virginia

[edit] Wisconsin

[edit] Wyoming

  • Casper, Wyoming: Drive up Casper Mountain Road. Take the first right, 1/8th mile the illusion exists next to the tree on the right.

[edit] Uruguay

Las Cumbres, Maldonado. Near Punta del Este

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Magnetic Hill - Peterborough - South Australia
  2. ^ Magnetic Hill - Moonbi, NSW. Australia
  3. ^ Magnetic Hill - Richmond, NSW
  4. ^ Magnetic Hill
  5. ^ Magnetic Hill - Burlington - Ontario
  6. ^ Magnetic Hill - Dacre, Ontario
  7. ^ Magnetic Hill - Chartierville, Quebec
  8. ^ National Capital Commission :: Gatineau Park
  9. ^ Check In Nova Scotia. - Nova Scotia Tourism Information Pages
  10. ^ Magnetic Hill - Worldwide
  11. ^ Two Non-falls
  12. ^ Magnetic Pole - Cabral, Barahona. Dominican Republic
  13. ^ The Hindu : Magnetic Hill: A wonder in Ladakh
  14. ^ places
  15. ^ Mullanimal The Magic Hill, Waterford
  16. ^ Dundalk - The Road Where Things Go Backwards, Take Your Car - The Online UK Travel Magazine
  17. ^ ManxForums.com - Manx Forums Chat & Classifieds for the Isle of Man > Where Is,..?
  18. ^ Teoton Spaniol
  19. ^ Magnetic Hill - Los Banos - Philippines
  20. ^ Liminality... the space in between | Imagery | Jeju Island Trip: Fall 2005
  21. ^ Gravity Hill - Aston Clinton Mys
  22. ^ Epping Forest Hangman's Hill
  23. ^ SABRE - Forums - View topic - Rolling uphill on the A719
  24. ^ The Ayrshire Locality The Electric Brae
  25. ^ ::: Newry Journal ::: - Gravity Hills
  26. ^ Sylacauga, Alabama - Gravity Hill
  27. ^ Sylacauga, Alabama - Gravity Hill
  28. ^ Gravity Hill - Helena, Arkansas
  29. ^ The Wide Awake Cafe » Travel
  30. ^ FOUND Magazine | Nothing Like
  31. ^ Gravity Hill story
  32. ^ W E I R D U S D O T C O M
  33. ^ Map - La Jolla Gravity Hill, La Jolla, CA
  34. ^ Gravity Hill - Rohnert Park, Sonoma County, California
  35. ^ Shadowlands Haunted Places Index - California
  36. ^ Shadowlands Haunted Places Index - California
  37. ^ Gravity Hill - Rohnert Park, Sonoma County, California
  38. ^ The Mystery Spot Official Website
  39. ^ Paranormal Story Archive - December 2002 - Page 8 - Cemetery Gravity Hill
  40. ^ http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=7043&st=15
  41. ^ Spook Hill - Lake Wales, Florida
  42. ^ Cumming, Georgia - Booger Hill
  43. ^ Welcome to Manchester, Georgia
  44. ^ Going Going Gone
  45. ^ Gravity Hill - Mooresville, Indiana
  46. ^ Gravity Hill - Princeton, Kentucky
  47. ^ Greenfield, Massachusetts - Gravity Hill
  48. ^ Harvard's gravity hill defies physics - well, at least it appears to - Harvard, MA - The Harvard Post
  49. ^ Gravity Hill - Arcadia, Michigan
  50. ^ Magnetic Hill - Rose City, Michigan
  51. ^ Ghosttraveller: Missouri
  52. ^ Hamilton Post -> : Adventures on Gravity Hill
  53. ^ Weird NJ Stories, Gravity Roads
  54. ^ Franklin Lakes, New Jersey - Gravity-Defying Exit Ramp
  55. ^ From VOICES: Good Spirits by Libby Tucker
  56. ^ Mystery Hill
  57. ^ Shadowlands Haunted Places Index - North Carolina
  58. ^ Shadowlands Haunted Places Index - North Carolina
  59. ^ Shadowlands Haunted Places Index - North Carolina
  60. ^ Gravity Hill
  61. ^ FarShores Paranormal News: Urban Legends Surround 'Gravity Hill', Oklahoma
  62. ^ The Oregon Vortex and location of the House of Mystery
  63. ^ Haunted Locations in Oregon
  64. ^ Gravity Hill
  65. ^ Gravity Hill - New Paris -Pennsylvania
  66. ^ GRAVITY HILL, Pennsylvania Phenomenon
  67. ^ Hopwood, Pennsylvania - Laurel Caverns - Cave Mini Golf
  68. ^ Gravity Hill - Harrisburg - Pennsylvania
  69. ^ http://www.ghost-tech.com/investigations.php?PG=gravity
  70. ^ Cosmos Mystery Area Home
  71. ^ Ghosttraveller: Big Ass Texas Ghosts
  72. ^ San Antonio, Texas - Ghostly Gravity Hill
  73. ^ Salt Lake City, Utah - Gravity Hill
  74. ^ Unexplained Research - Wonder Spot
  75. ^ Wisconsin's 'Wonder Spot' faces wrecking ball - USATODAY.com
  76. ^ Unexplained Research - Joe Road
  77. ^ Gravity Hill - Shullsburg, Wisconsin
  78. ^ Unexplained Research - Gravity Hill Road