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Funzo: And I have an enchanted jock strap.

Aha!

"Look!" said Jim Steadman, a 56-year-old coworker at Aflac Insurance....



/TFA boring
//Santa Cruz Mystery Spot RuLeZ!!

Heh, there's a very small gravity hill near my home. It is a real trip.

Wow, when did Fark turn into Digg?

not rocket science...

god i hate shiat like this, they got a place here in cali called the mystery spot, it's just as stupid.

sure, when your orientation is twisted and you're presented with a surface that looks uphill that is actually downhill by a carpenter's level, duh things roll uphill, get something better to call a tourist attraction and get this bumfark bullshiat out of our touristy faces.

/loves being a tourist
//hates stupid attractions like this

Also one in southern Oregon.

/House of Mystery.
//But its got a cool visual-warp area too.

We had the same thing in my hometown (Rohnert Park, Ca.).
It was (actually, it still is) in the hills behind Sonoma State University.
Used to give all of the bored High School kids something to do...

There's one in Helena, MT, too up past the Colonial near Winne, and you go quite a ways uphill on that road before you hit the 'top'.

So what? We've got the Holy Stone of Clonrichert - officially upgraded from a class 3 to a class 2 miracle.

uh, we've got our own here in Canada, except we call it Magnetic Hill...and to tell the truth, it's really long, and really cool!

Check it out...

Magnetic Hill, New Brunswick

Unamerican: Dougal: What's a magic road, Ted?

Thank god someone made reference to Fr.Ted! Thread wouldn't have been the same without it.

Oh, and because it's Canada, they built a friggin' amusement park around it!

Magneto.....

I rolled up (down) the one in New Brunswick last week. Took the kids to the water park and zoo too.

Obey gravity it's the Law

Adolf Oliver Nipples: What, no references to the Oregon Vortex?


Look behind you...

the 1 in huntsville is on big cove road near the hospital paralell to governors drive goin over monte sano mt.

/godwin for no reason

I guess submitter and author never putted on a real golf green before either. Or else they would know how the surrounding area affects the perception of slope.

\nothing better then sex on a golf green
\\been awhile

Confabulat

They do cars on the one in Sylacauga, as well. That's why people were turning around in that guy's driveway "to give it another go."

But it seems these guys don't know much about Sylacauga. It's not THAT small... It says 400-odd people, but it actually has well over 10,000. Every high school in Sylacauga has over 400 people. :-P They're probably talking about Oak Grove, which is very close to where Gravity Hill is located.

They say that having a gravity hill is going to get more and more rare, because renovations to the roadways are ruining the optical illusions. However, this is just a little side road in a small town, so I doubt they will ever regrade it.

/Sylacauga native

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Just click that you are out of country.

optimus_prime
I wonder if perpetual motion works there too?
It sure does, I have a machine that's just about perfected. All I need is your investment, and when I start selling this baby, we'll be rich. As a matter of fact, the more you folks invest, the sooner I can produce my working prototype!

// if you believe a sales pitch like that, you are dumb
// if you really want to invest insomething, try
// www.redcross.org
// slashies!

Places like that have been around for..... ever (I guess)

The Electric Brae...
The coast road at Dunure in Ayrshire (Scotland) is one of the best.
Viewed from either end and even the sea, there is a perceptible hill... but it appears to defy the laws of nature... in reality it is an astonishing optical illusion.

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&GridE=-4.75980&GridN=55.4 0740&lon=-4.75980&lat=55.40740&search_result=Dunure%2C%20South%20Ayrshire&db=f reegaz&lang=&keepicon=true&place=Dunure%2C%20South%20Ayrshire&pc=&advanced=&cl ient=public&addr2=&quicksearch=dunure&addr3=&scale=100000&addr1=

maddogdelta: I have a machine that's just about perfected.

In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

/not even close to obscure

corvair2k1: They say that having a gravity hill is going to get more and more rare, because renovations to the roadways are ruining the optical illusions.

They are being ruined on purpose. Those illusions are very distracting to people who are trying to have serious cell-phone conversations while driving.

puuukeey: new jersey too near new hope

Ooh, it's near New Hope? I've heard about it since I was a kid. For some reason I thought it was out in the pines. Cool.

There's one of these in Northwest Michigan also, between Traverse City and Manistee. It's sort of off the beaten path, down a couple of side roads, and a little church sits on the corner in the middle of nowhere. Add the fact that the "downhill" slope leads into the woods and one can embellish the story in a number of ways. The person who told me about it said there was a bad accident on this road and the reason your car rolls uphill is because it's the spirits of the accident victims pulling you away from the bad place and up toward the church.

Ah, youth.

Unamerican



/golf clap at reference

puuukeey: new jersey too near new hope


Yeah, and there's one in the pine barrens, & there's a road near Atco Raceway where you can see 'ghosts' if you park under a certain streetlight.

Undertoad [TotalFark]

Benny Hill: Where you roll a round object down a slope and it flies through the air and lands in a busty wench's cleavage.

Then an innocent attempt to retrieve said object results in a gross misunderstanding causing the townspeople to gather and chase you up-hill.

Michael Hunt: Wow, when did Fark turn into Digg?

Yeah, seriously. Next we'll have 1300 links greenlighted that vaguely reference Apple Computers.

I farkin' HATE gravity.
Especially in my kitchen.

take your rational thought and shove it.

this is clearly an oft observed phenomenon where two fatties pass close enough to eachother to enter into decaying orbit. eventually they collide and thier combined mass and volume approach the schwartzkof radius and a singularity is formed, creating odd gravitational anomolies in the area.

notice the type of place where these things happen are abundant in fatties.

In the UP there is a place called the Mystery Spot. They use levels to prove that the object is either level or slightly slanted. THen they set a ball on it and it rolls up hill, they also poar water in a trough and it travels up and then falls off into a bucket. You really have to be there to believe it...

cardiovascular
thats a good one

there is a mystery spot in Springfield and the story goes is that Ozzie Smith went inside never to be seen again.

On a similar note, here's an easy trick to play on an unsuspecting motorist. Have you & a cohort drive around till you come up on a two lane stoplight with a left turn lane that just turned red. Works better if the mark is in the center lane. On an eye contact signal, have both cars start slowly backing in reverse {assuming no one is behind you}. The middle car will start freaking out jamming the brake to keep from "rolling" into the intersection. Works every time.

Mad Mark

i remember seeing something in a psych class i took where children are especially suceptable to frame of reference fallacies. We watched a video of kids standing in front of what they thought was a window...the video screen behind the window would slowly "tilt" and eventually the little farkers would fall flat on thier faces. It was about the funniest thing id ever seen, but no one else shared in my raucous laughter.

Wow, some of you must impress easily. Given the fact that most of you voted for Bush i'm not really surprised. Anyway, just about every town has one of these places where you can lift your foot off the brakes of your vehicle and begin to roll backwards a bit. Again, spook hill, gavity hill, it's all the same.

Bah, NJ has like five different hills that do this. Alabama must just be getting 50s tech, becasue of the fact that this was really popular in the 1950s with kids.

Not nearly as mystifying as The Mystery Hole!

In Alabama, even gravity is stupid. No seriously, we have a gravity hill in PA near Bedford.

/Bedford is near nothing.

This is an interesting article from Scientific American a few years back that helps explain how this might be possible in a car (graphic on page 4):

http://www.cnsi-uc.org/events/nanoseminar/ref_materials/Astumian/Astumiana.pdf

The text without graphics:
DRIVING UPHILL WITHOUT AN ENGINE is an apt metaphor for understanding molecular motors. It sounds impossible but can happen if a car is equipped with a special ratchet brake and is bombarded by hailstones. In terms of potential energy, the hill can be represented by a straight line and the brake (when applied) by a lopsided sawtooth.

When the brake is on, the car is forced down into the notch of the sawtooth. It is unlikely that a hailstone would push the car out of this locked position. (If one did, the car would actually tend to move backward-that is, the path of least resistance for the ratchet.)

When the brake is off, hailstones buffet the car, making it jiggle back and forth randomly. The probability of reaching a certain position can be calculated from the slope of the hill and the amount of time available. Despite the downhill bias, the car is more likely to move past the position of the peak to the right than the peak to the left (dashed lines).

Reapplying the brake pushes the car back to where it started (for this example, with 60% probability), forward one notch (39%) or back (1%; not shown).

we have a place called that in my hometown of princeton, ky as well. you can park at the bottom of a hill (under a bridge) and put the car in neutral and you will roll all the way up the hill to the main road.

the story goes that a young girl died in an accident when they were building the bridge, and that she is pushing you out of danger.

the real story is nowhere nearly as interesting.

Please no more links to al.com.... they are annoying. To read the whole article you have to click print page and cancel the print dialog, or enter your zip, age, annual income, ssn, credit card#, mother's maiden name.......