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metacafe.com — This one is located in Braga, north of Portugal. A gravity hill is a "place where the layout of the surrounding land produces the optical illusion that a very slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope. Thus, a car left out of gear will appear to be rolling uphill."

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  • hairypothead, on 05/10/2008, -1/+134FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_hill
    • Slices, on 05/10/2008, -3/+1http://slices-of-life.com/car-climbing-a-slope-wit ...
    • Absinthminded64, on 05/10/2008, -5/+77This is retarded. Anyone who sees this with half a brain should know what's going on.
      • Slices, on 05/10/2008, -4/+43In a land of retards, a person with half a brain might rule.
      • xcvbn, on 05/10/2008, -1/+8yore just being silly, many important people have just over a half. and it wouldnt interest them enough to even consider an explanation.

        "I believe that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully."
        "She's a West Texas girl, just like me."
        "More and more of our imports come from other countries."
        "I know how hard it is to put food on your family."
        "I understand small businesses. I was one."
        • FuckThaMeme, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1yore...
        • qwerty2159, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1someone posted a video of a car rolling up a hill and we are talking about the president. i love digg. i love America!
    • AngelBunny, on 05/10/2008, -1/+5we have one of these hills around here. growing up my mother would take me on it and put the car in neutral and it would roll up hill. i finally figured out what was going on when I was like 6 or something. it was one of the more fun tricks my parents showed me when I was very young.
    • afx1, on 05/10/2008, -16/+8there's a gravity hill in my town. actually it's more of a cliff. and there's not much of optical illusion. here's my truck going "up" the hill: http://preview.tinyurl.com/4sba9a
    • lucutus, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3OK yeah we know what is going on with the hill but even more amazing is the multiple "Engines" in the teeny car. Why no more than a mention of it in the video title "engines off" let's have a look under the hood already!
    • PhilLesh69, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1My mom grew up in a town in NJ where one of these hills exists. I've been on it. It sorta, kinda looks like you are going uphill, but if you look closely and have any sense of equilibrium, you realize it is in fact a very slight downhill grade.
    • Abruptinfinite, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=rNLGEzSn-BM
      Here's a video explanation. For those too lazy to read or are just more entertained by moving pictures.
      Warning: It's a little cheesy/shallow.
  • x123bv, on 05/10/2008, -25/+7Amazing
    • hairypothead, on 05/10/2008, -7/+6yeah and it's a Gravity Hill, too.

      What is the matter with people who make dumb comments, anyway?
      • Jwoey, on 05/10/2008, -6/+2I've actually been tasked with leading a research study to figure out the answer to that very question. Here's as good a place to start as any.
        hairypothead, what is the matter with people like you who make dumb comments?
    • ophello, on 05/10/2008, -3/+2x123bv is not very interesting, nor is his/her username, if he/she really thinks this video is "amazing". I would ask "x123bv" to first evaluate their username, and then, to ask themselves how on earth this video should be called "amazing".
    • PhilLesh69, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1amazing, this road is going downhill towards an even steeper downhill road. So it looks like it is going uphill, yet, it is not.
  • milos31, on 05/10/2008, -22/+5intersting stuff
  • vitalsparx, on 05/10/2008, -5/+12I think there's a few of these anti-gravity hills around the world: here's one in Scotland-
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Brae
    It's amazing to go downhill and uphill on them the wrong way ;-)
    • mediaphile, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2Yeah, my hometown of Antioch is the top listing for California's gravity hills. Antioch is tiny and *****, so I'm amazed it made it into wikipedia for something.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magnetic_hill ...
    • codyp, on 05/10/2008, -2/+1There are alot of them, and most of them are unlisted.. im surprised this made front page. The storys behind them are always interesting though.
    • Hetman, on 05/10/2008, -3/+2There is one in indiana also. It is definatly a strange feeling, or I should say illusion.
    • MsAntiSunshine, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2There's one somewhere in Jersey.
      • Gir53457, on 05/10/2008, -1/+3There's a portal to hell in Jersey.
      • D0P3M4N, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1Yea, tis maybe 20 minutes from where I live. It's illegal to stop and go into neutral on it, though, considering its a highway exit.
    • fluxion, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3there's 1 in pretty much every city. you just need to have a road that slopes downward slightly less than the rest of the landscape and voila, wizard! i'd imagine that's fairly common. the world tends to have sloping landscapes
    • seandoof, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1There's one near Orlando, Florida called "Spook Hill". I went there and tried it and it's merely an optical illusion. Really cool but not magic at all.
    • mysedai, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2There's one on TN HWY 62 at mile marker 10 between Crossville and Spring City. There's even a ghost story that goes with it; a school bus died there in the middle of the road, and a tractor trailer came around the blind curve and hit it, killing the children on board. Now, if your car stops there, they will push it up the hill and out of harm's way.
      That, of course, is a load of crap, but it's still a fun way to spend a Friday night when you're in high school.
      That's two claims to fame this little town has here on Digg. Gravity-Hill and the FSM statue.
      • MtheoryX, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1That's the same exact story I've heard for at least 10 different gravity hill's. WTF?
    • uhhNo, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4It's not anti-gravity, it's gravity. It is clearly an optical illusion.
      • Stettenbauer, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1Yes ,I think so too .I was at one in Israel in a bus and the driver showed us the same thing.
    • Gir53457, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magnetic_hill ...
    • willbb123, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1ive never heard that story... thats a pretty good one
  • LiquidIse, on 05/10/2008, -0/+200Why not use a level?
    • Slices, on 05/10/2008, -1/+48...and ruin the mystique? That would be preposterous!
    • Schizotypal, on 05/10/2008, -7/+10http://www.jorah.org/treasure/wp-content/uploads/2 ...
      • paloooz, on 05/10/2008, -7/+3It seems that dog people have seen our lolcat pictures and attempted to create their own.

        Pathedic.
    • blagoaw, on 05/10/2008, -0/+26Step right up and see The Amazing Gravity Defying Hill and its faithful sidekick, The Amazing Gravity Defying Level.
    • GreenGrassyNoel, on 05/10/2008, -1/+13So you are saying use scientific evidence to disprove a claim? This doesn't always work out as it should.
    • TsuruchiBrian, on 05/10/2008, -0/+41Isn't it obvious?
      The magic hill makes the bubble inside the level go the wrong way too.
    • boydrew, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3A level? Now you're just making things up.... ;)
    • flogistan, on 05/10/2008, -2/+6No *****, one construction worker, one string line, one level. Gay mystery solved.
      • tnoy, on 05/10/2008, -1/+15one construction worker, one string line, one level, one cup.
        • flogistan, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1One chew of tabacco, one news paper, one johnny on the spot. It just wouldn't be the same.
    • woofers07, on 05/10/2008, -1/+22WITCH!!!!!!!!!
    • jerrycan, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1You're a witch! Light the fires!
    • uhhNo, on 05/10/2008, -1/+8You don't need one... CARS are able to roll, it obviously isn't level. It's an optical illusion.
      • RandomLove, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Well, seeing as the illusion element lays in which way the hill actually slopes--down, when it appears to be up--a level would be pretty apropos at determining that. Not if the the ground is level. Obvi.
    • blagoaw, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4If it hadn't already been debunked, we wouldn't be calling it a "gravity defying" hill. We'd be calling it a hill.*

      *Ask me about my opinions on magic and the supernatural today!
      • imacoder, on 05/10/2008, -0/+0Please don't tell us your opinions on magic and the supernatural today! Maybe tomorrow.
    • optimuscrime, on 05/10/2008, -5/+2The bubble in the level moves because of gravity. The car is rolling because of gravity. The level will just report information that agrees with the car's behaviour. No new information about what is going on here can be achieved with a level.

      I have a feeling that half of the people who responded didn't realize that a level wouldn't help to explain anything.
      • blagoaw, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1Me too. Actually, it's always hard to tell. I hesitated before my "amazing gravity defying level" post, since it's a bit ambiguous as to whether I got it or not. The car is what apparently "defies" gravity due to the illusion, not the hill, and the level would do so as well. The hill just sits there where it's supposed to be. Perhaps that's why the one in New Brunswick (or Nova Scotia?) calls it a magnetic hill. It's more appropriate and less appropriate in a way.
      • MtheoryX, on 05/10/2008, -1/+5What part of laying the level on the road, and determining that the road is actually sloping downhill doesn't make sense to you?

        Sure, the level would agree with what's going on with the car; however, you would have objective, empirical evidence that it's not "magic" or magnetism pulling the car uphill. And it sure as hell isn't a dozen or so ghost children pushing you from the scene of a decades old accident.
        • Nescirian, on 05/10/2008, -1/+3MtheoryX:
          The level simply indicates the total force operating on the fluid in the level, which if you're holding it still is usually just gravity.
          IF there was some other force that was pulling a car up the hill, it would also pull the fluid in the level in such a way as to make it look as though that direction was "down". If the car can be moved by "magic","magnetism", "ghosts", etc, there's no reason the fluid can't.
          Just because something is used as a scientific device doesn't mean it somehow has a magical power of truthiness that can't be messed with by other influences on its mechanism.

          Having said that, surveying the land around these "hills" has shown it to be an optical illusion. Just don't be so quick to assume other people are ignorant when you're the one rolling on the floor failing out loud.
          • MtheoryX, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1No, I'm pretty sure the people who would assume it's magic are the ones "failing out loud."

            Would it not make more sense to assume there is some logical explanation, then exhaust those explanations first, before jumping to "magic," or should we always just jump to "magic" first?

            Yes, marshmallows float because it's magic; I know this because I'm unable to prove exactly why they float, scientifically.
          • mnocket, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Stops laughing....... Let me get this straight. You discount the use of a level to determine the slope of the hill, but accept that "surveying the land around these "hills" has shown it to be an optical illusion". Just what type of surveying tools are these? They must be pretty special to not fall prey to the same force as the level. Your thinking is flawed. If you trust surveying instruments (assuming you understand how they work), then you must also accept the use of a level for determining slope. ...... resumes laughing.
  • birdlives, on 05/10/2008, -3/+18I have a Gravity Hill in my town, although the incline isnt that big
    • uhhNo, on 05/10/2008, -3/+3All of the hills in every city I have been in so far follow the laws of gravity. I will let you know if I find one that doesn't.
    • hdberk, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1Where are you from?
  • SvenGeiss, on 05/10/2008, -3/+76the trees just grew at an angle to give the illusion that your going up hill.. but in essence your still going downhill. take a level to it and you'll see
    • chemicalrxn, on 05/10/2008, -0/+12Along with the roadisgns too. They were probably placed perpendicular to the road, but not in a true vertical position.
      • t0x2c, on 05/10/2008, -6/+0If you're going down a 30 grade slope in an rather tall truck, would you want street signs perfectly vertical? No you would be reading them from a strange angle, you'd want them perpendicular to the road. It's not a trick.
        • MtheoryX, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Been on a lot of slope with a 30 degree grade in a rather tall truck lately? I've never seen a single one that was approved for road vehicle use, much less a "rather tall truck."
          • t0x2c, on 05/11/2008, -0/+0I've never heard the term "30 degree grade" used either. At least not properly.
    • ophello, on 05/10/2008, -3/+32YOUR: POSSESSIVE: YOUR JACKET IS WET
      YOU'RE: CONTRACTION: YOU ARE...as in... YOU'RE AN IDIOT FOR NOT KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "your" AND "you're"
      • jgtg32a, on 05/10/2008, -7/+3You don't have to yell about it.
      • eyesmell, on 05/10/2008, -7/+9Sentences aren't supposed to be completely capitalized.
        • ophello, 9 hr 20 min ago, -0/+1the difference is im actually using it to make a point. I am perfectly capable of using proper punctuation and can decide, logically, when all-caps is appropriate. There is no excuse for mixing up "your" and "you're" except that you are too lazy to learn the difference.
        • ophello, 9 hr 19 min ago, -0/+1All caps is not a grammatical error.
      • Monkeydew06, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1I'm surprised that you did not point out his lack of capitalization and punctuation. Seriously though, go die.
  • larama, on 05/10/2008, -14/+1wow! and that´s not the only illusion that you can get there... ;)
  • GordonV, on 05/10/2008, -25/+6Is there a way to make infinate energy from this?
    • NeedzABetterSN, on 05/10/2008, -0/+16No, It's an illusion.
    • m1zl3d, on 05/10/2008, -3/+1Infinite energy from rolling a car down a hill? I seriously doubt that.
      • blahtastic, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4Infinite energy from rolling a car down an infinite hill, on the other hand...
    • ironlung, on 05/10/2008, -0/+8infinite.
      • Slices, on 05/10/2008, -4/+1INFINITE, I tell you! Never-Ending and Ceaceless, beautifull free-flowing, ever-winding energy.

        ...Not from letting a car roll uphill tho.
    • blagoaw, on 05/10/2008, -0/+12When you've got the illusion of infinite energy, who needs energy?
    • TsuruchiBrian, on 05/10/2008, -0/+8Yes absolutely there is a way to get infinite energy from this. Just follow these steps:

      1. Let the car roll up the hill and hook up the wheels to a generator that will charge a battery.
      2. Push the car back down the hill. It will seem really hard and it will feel like you are using energy doing it. But this is just an illusion. It is in fact really easy (because it is down hill).

      Repeat several times and you will have charged the battery. Congratulations you have just solved all the world's problems.
    • TonyLocNE, on 05/10/2008, -0/+5not unless you can turn it into an infinitely downward sloping hill
  • skepticality, on 05/10/2008, -3/+10There is another like this right near Wyoming, on the way to Mt. Rushmore. They call it 'Cosmos', you can find more info on it. They actually DO use a level on the tour, it is kind of a fun thing to go see/look at. You can roll a ball, what seems like, up hill. :)
    • yellowfish04, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3Yep, I've been there many times, pretty fun stuff. Like the guy said above us, it's optical illusions caused mostly by the trees growing at a funky angle
  • Tigerbot5, on 05/10/2008, -12/+3This was on the front page just about a month or two ago.
    • PoppedCulture, on 05/10/2008, -0/+7Nope, that was an illusion.
    • IllBeBack, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1It's likely that it was on the front page yet another time or two, and even you, the mighty seer of all front-paged Digg posts, missed it.
    • sherbertbones, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1Who ***** cares?
  • synystar, on 05/10/2008, -2/+22I think it's actually that both roads are going upwards on a sloping hill but the one on the left is cut deeper into the ground giving the illusion that you are going downhill when approaching it from the other road.
    • Neoanarchist, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3Thats exactly what I see happening. Both hills are going up hill (towards the front of the car or left at the beginning) only the farther (from the camera) road is sloped slightly less.
  • mrivorey, on 05/10/2008, -17/+4Fake
  • tim710, on 05/10/2008, -3/+52I want to see someone on a skateboard try.
    • mddawso, on 05/10/2008, -0/+6I think the fact that it's a car is pretty important. Cars can get rolling fairly easily and quickly on a really small slope
      • newms32, on 05/10/2008, -3/+0All objects fall due to gravity at the same rate, a slope doesn't change this. The weight advantage of a car is offset by the fact that the force generated has to accelerate that mass. The momentum of a car might be better able to overcome rocks and ruts, but on a smooth surface it will roll at the same rate as a skateboard.

        (haven't taken physics in a while, correct me if I'm wrong)
        • SeymourC, on 05/10/2008, -0/+0slope definitely does affect gravity. Think trigonometry. The slope is the resistance to gravity
  • nicolaport, on 05/10/2008, -6/+1awesome
  • farkis, on 05/10/2008, -25/+80Bama seems to be using this same mysterious force to power his campaign.
  • AppleGeorge, on 05/10/2008, -9/+27This is new to you guys?
    • Verdanic, on 05/10/2008, -3/+8Yes. I have not seen it before. Shocking.

      (although, hey, points for not saying 'this has been posted x times before'.)
    • bot001220, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3Here's a few more spoilers for you, Verdanic:

      Eating watermelon seeds will NOT cause you to grow a plant in your stomach.
      Shaving will NOT cause your hair to grow back thicker, and
      Saying "Bloody Mary" in front of a mirror 3 times won't make her appear.
      • justdawson, on 05/10/2008, -0/+0All correct except for the Bloody Mary part.
  • kue04, on 05/10/2008, -9/+12Lame
  • jackelopeus, on 05/10/2008, -15/+7OMFG this is old... Digg, you have disappointed me.
    • Slices, on 05/10/2008, -1/+6You are old, maybe you're just disappointed with yourself?
    • PoppedCulture, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2Perhaps you have been on Digg for too long
    • Subacious, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3***** you Jack. Forgive us for not having seen everything on the internet 12 times already.
    • synystar, on 05/10/2008, -0/+5He's 33...that's old? I'm 33. So ... I'm old? *****, I knew the day would come. =(

      And he joined like a couple of months ago and I've been on digg since 05. I've never seen this. So yeah.
  • clemsontiger, on 05/10/2008, -0/+11There is a place in the mountains of South Carolina that this happens too. Its funny to tell someone and them call BS on you then you take them there and the expression on their face.
    • AMSRay, on 05/10/2008, -0/+6I remember my parents going to this old tourist place when I was kid called Mystery Hill. I thought it was in South Carolinas, but when I googled for it I found that it is actually near Boone North Carolina. They still have the old "Mystery House" where water appears to run uphill and and other pranks and illusions. It's been a tourist attraction for at least 70 years. www.mysteryhill-nc.com
  • IamKrAzE, on 05/10/2008, -11/+10Old :(
  • CynicSight, on 05/10/2008, -17/+4Bury me if you want but this is really lame. Buried.
  • noahgelman, on 05/10/2008, -22/+19Explanation: People are stupid
    Buried
    • JoshChan, on 05/10/2008, -4/+5He is right. People are really gullible.
  • bokep, on 05/10/2008, -12/+7SNORE
  • Rupes, on 05/10/2008, -11/+2wtf u can hear the car engine
    • Slices, on 05/10/2008, -1/+4I hear nothing but chirping innocent birdies.
      • Wade, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3They're not innocent.
        • Slices, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1do you suppose they're behind the whole gravity hill mystery thing?
    • TheAmbushAhead, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3It's idling.
    • Phlake, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3I was having a hard time hearing the engine when the guy's keys were hanging out the window.
  • Morac, on 05/10/2008, -3/+5There are places like that all over the world.
    The car is going downhill, it just looks like it's going uphill because of the terrain.
  • dhughes, on 05/10/2008, -1/+17 There's one in south eastern Canada called Magnetic Hill, it's near the city on Moncton in the province of New Brunswick.
    http://www.magnetichill.com/
    • arobicha, on 05/10/2008, -1/+0My wife's in Moncton today visiting family... It's not exactly an exciting tourist attraction, but It's better than visiting the inlaws. *ba-dum-ching*
      • dhughes, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1 They're building a $100 million casino there in a couple of years, unfortunately I work at a smaller casino the next province over :( http://www.cdpec.ca
        • amercer, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1Halifax, I assume? It's a nicer city anyway!
    • tillerman00, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1I've been there, years ago. First thing I thought of when I saw this.
    • willbb123, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1i love how these places have websites
  • inobla, on 05/10/2008, -2/+25People get spoofed by the funniest ***** when they want to believe in it badly enough.
  • alasbabylon, on 05/10/2008, -12/+0So I'm in Physics 101 and I'm learning about slides and how objects interact with them. I'm pretty sure the lesson was that if an object is on a frictionless slide, the object will accelerate downwards at 9.8 m/s^2 multiplied by the sine of the slope's angle. In this particular example, we're given that the car is on a slide. Since we're not told whether the car is in idle or not, we must have more information. We don't have the technology to figure out crazy things like this.
    • ligyron, on 05/10/2008, -0/+13... it's just an illusion of up hill when it's actually downhill
      • alasbabylon, on 05/10/2008, -6/+0Ah ok, that explains everything. Fascinating. That's really quite fascinating. Say, have you ever been on the freeway in the middle of nowhere during the summer, and there's an illusion produced by heat so that it looks like there's water or oil just all over the asphalt? I've heard that the illusion is actually caused by distortion of the light by the heat on the asphalt. It's actually not water at all, but it really does look like it! If you drive an extra 10 miles, you will find out the same thing.
      • synystar, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1Yes really you are. You don't need physics to explain this... just common sense. Both roads are going up hill. If you notice when he turns the camera to the left where the roads meet... it's uphill. When he turns to the right you can see that the paved road is cut deeper into the terrain but the dirt road is still climbing the same hill albeit at much less of a slope.
    • afruff23, on 05/10/2008, -0/+6This comment is so funny and sad at the same time (e.g. the state of college education).
      • alasbabylon, on 05/10/2008, -3/+0There's a few things I left out. Notably rotational momentum and the fact that cars are never on frictionless slides. However, I'm not sure how your observation that my comment is funny and sad says anything about college education. It would actually say a lot more about the state of university education. Since we all know university education is more better than college edumacation, I'm not even sure what it says about the state of college education. Not all of us are physics majors by the way. I could've told you I never took a physics class in college, and that this is high school physics. After all, this is something you're supposed to learn in high school physics. Looks like you've at least picked up a sense of humor and recognized how none of this is intended to be serious.
        • afruff23, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4"However, I'm not sure how your observation that my comment is funny and sad says anything about college education"

          I thought you were seriously trying to explain common sense with a bunch of irrelavant information from your physics course to seem smarter. I'm in university-level physics as well BTW.
        • alasbabylon, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1Do you like flux?
          • afruff23, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3It's not the worst thing. Electric or magnetic? The integration can be a nightmare because they are all so similar (e.g. gauss's law, faraday's law, integrating electric field to get voltage).
    • arobicha, on 05/10/2008, -0/+0That's Grade 11 physics where I come from... And I can vouch that here in Canada we fail the ***** out of our undergrads in first year physics, like we're supposed to. A question like this would be an example of some sort to throw them off.
      • alasbabylon, on 05/10/2008, -2/+0Oh yeah? Well that's grade 10 physics where I come from. Not even grade 10. Where I come from, it doesn't matter what grade you're in before the laws of thermodynamics apply to you. I'm pretty sure the applicable one here is conservation of energy. Since the kinetic energy of the car is increasing, and the potential energy is decreasing, it makes sense that the car is going down a slope.
        • teesix, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2blah blah, it's an illusion.... defensive much?
        • alasbabylon, on 05/10/2008, -1/+0I can be as defensive as i want to be. They say the best offense is a good defense. And vice versa. I never really understand that one, to be quite honest. So I'm defensive much, what are you gonna do about it? Say "blah blah blah" some more and mock me? Like I've never heard that before. Typical much?
  • oneredeye, on 05/10/2008, -19/+1That was stupid. A video of a car rolling down a hill played backwards.
    • BrosDuCK, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4Are you kidding? lol
    • SquigglyP, on 05/10/2008, -0/+8I applaud your skepticism, but you lose points for stupid.
  • SEGA4life, on 05/10/2008, -6/+13Theres one of these magic hills right here in Florida.

    They say some people died because there car crashed going down the hill, so the ghost try and stop people by not making them go down it, or pull them away from it.
  • deadi, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2We have one in kirtland ohio. I understand it was on Thats incredible once.....
  • yumlum, on 05/10/2008, -6/+1horriable .
    • TonyLocNE, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Do you mean horrible? Because yes, you spelling is...
  • alasbabylon, on 05/10/2008, -7/+0My driveway is actually a gravity hill. It's in one of those peculiar places on Earth where gravity has the inverse effect on mass. If you are trying to play basketball on my driveway, get prepared to do a lot of swearing and cursing because unless you have an Iron Man suit, you're not getting that basketball back.
    • Slices, on 05/10/2008, -2/+2you should make a vid, I'd like to see that.
      • alasbabylon, on 05/10/2008, -4/+5I actually have an Iron Man suit, wouldn't you rather just see me fly around in that? Honestly, I'm not prepared to do a lot of swearing and cursing. Now, if you want to see what I can do with my Iron Man suit, just watch the movie. All the effects were done by video taping me after directing me to do things. It's actually kinda tame compared to what I normally do in my hero adventures, but it's hard to catch that on camera, you know. Too many G forces for those air-to-air combat fighters that they had to use to film me.
        • Slices, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1uh.... sure, just don't get any closer! :-|
  • spankr, on 05/10/2008, -4/+1Ooooo - kinda like Magnetic Hill in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada... Lame...
  • shadowblade989, on 05/10/2008, -0/+7Theres this tourist trap called 'Mystery Spot' that uses this same principle
    My grandma made me go there when I was younger and it turned out to be very interesting.
    They have platforms that people stand on and appear to be on a slope of like 50 degrees and not falling, etc.
    Pics on the official website http://www.mysteryspot.com/photos.shtml
  • cruzer2727, on 05/10/2008, -5/+4Dugg like 5 years ago. Slow day for digg.
    • mphree, on 05/10/2008, -2/+4Digg didnt exist five years ago. Plus, it's interesting a new to a lot of readers, so STFU.
      • cruzer2727, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Yes I realize Digg didn't exist 5 years ago. Ever heard of an expression? or perhaps hyperbole? So basically what you're agreeing to is for everyone to keep submitting the same stories every year because it is interesting.
  • HayString, on 05/10/2008, -1/+23"this is no trick or illusion..."
    Liar!
  • Enlightenment, on 05/10/2008, -7/+2Infinite Stupidity. Funs things for stupid people.
  • alsiddiq, on 05/10/2008, -1/+4CAR SALMON!!!
  • Cornrider, on 05/10/2008, -2/+3You are all wrong. It's Tom Cruise's interdimensional body-double using the energy that comes from L Rum Hubb-astard in order to show that Xenu hates you
  • TheBuzzKiller, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3One in Abbotsford, BC or thereabouts
    • J0415, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1I was about to ask where it was, and then I found the address:
      Abbotsford, British Columbia: McKee Road, near Ledgeview Golf Course.
  • dualaudi, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3knotts berry farm has the same thing...they use a level too..
  • flamewall203, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4There is one just like the hill in the video about 45 minutes from my house, except not as steep, still a cool optical illusion though
  • 2006, on 05/10/2008, -0/+6Did anybody else hear the sound of the Black Smoke from Lost, 23 seconds in?
    • Slices, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3I did notice a strange interference, half-way through. (when they're filming from inside the car, just before you see a basketball laying there on the ground).
  • Tibin05, on 05/10/2008, -0/+15It's an uphill battle getting people to understand that gravity hills are not magical.
  • onoffswitch, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4Are you stoned.... your driving a car up and floating down a hill (back and forth, back and forth)....... some people call them scientist others call them hippies from the local collage... looks cool but.
    • TheBigSquid, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1The local collage, huh?
    • notwizt, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Work on your writing, man.
      • onoffswitch, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Remember when i was trying to explain the definition of irony......
  • lordoftime, on 05/10/2008, -2/+3there's one in Benzonia, Michigan
  • robruiz, on 05/10/2008, -0/+5A good list of "Gravity Hills" and its explanation: http://www.glosk.com/PO/Malveira/-3002678/pages/Gr ...
  • DeFex, on 05/10/2008, -3/+10If you drive towards Hillary clintons big head you will notice this effect. best thing to do would be not stop.
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