Gravity hill

All of this research gives me the same heebie-jeebies that Lake Carbon Road.

Gravity Hill.

No, like Herman gives me.

Have you ever been

Like instead of like sugar treating and like cutesy Halloween stuff, Phil and my mom used to take us on spooky drives.

We would do like Herman.

We would do Gravity Hill, White Witch Road.

Like, yes.

I don't know if we ever bring him back up again.

He's tricolated down to the Bartlesville area and has become part of a legend connected with the railroad tracks and the Gravity Hill.

He has.

Yeah, it's all kind of gone together.

Little quick mini trip with some friends of ours.

And I went to Mystery Hill.

Oh, is that the house with all the illusions in it and stuff?

Yes.

And the one thing all the kids were like, we don't want to do that.

And now we have a jar full of these beautiful stones.

Taking it back to Mystery Hill, I've never been before.

So I learned all about the poles, the gravitational energy there.

These places have become known by many different names.

Some communities call them gravity hills.

Others know them as mystery hills, magnetic hills, or spook hills.

Whatever the name, the experience is almost always the same, and so are the legends that have grown around them.

Similar stories appear all over North America, often attached to entirely different roads and completely different railroad crossings.

The details change from town to town, but the legend itself remains remarkably consistent, suggesting that the folklore may have traveled much farther than the history that supposedly inspired it.

Eventually, almost every conversation about gravity hills arrives at the same question.

If this isn't paranormal, then what is it? Surveyors, engineers, and geologists have examined these locations for decades, and their explanation is surprisingly elegant.

This is a documented, repeatable, independently verifiable phenomenon that occurs at specific locations on every inhabited continent.

There are gravity hills in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and several other states across the Eastern Seaboard.

There are gravity hills in Scotland, in Wales, in the hills of Southern England.

There are gravity hills in South Korea, in multiple locations across India, in the coastal ranges of Australia, in the interior of Brazil, in the valleys of Northern Italy.

In every country where people drive vehicles and where the terrain produces the right conditions, someone has identified a spot where cars appear to roll uphill.

Tourists visit them.

It explains the mechanism of the illusion, how the brain is fooled, but it does not fully explain why these specific places produce the illusion and others do not.

Optical illusions of slope can theoretically occur anywhere the horizon is obscured and the surrounding terrain provides misleading visual cues.

... lists of everything.

Uh, the hands, uh, the train track, the car on the train track, or Gravity Hill is a more commonly-

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... called one, where according to the story, you either, uh, park your car on a hill, a specific spot on a specific road, a specific hill, or on a certain spot of train tracks where...