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Gravity Hill...Every town seems to have one..

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(@timbolsf)
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Does your town have a Gravity Hill...Just amazes me that so many cities across the US seem a gravity hill them.. For anyone thats not familiar with this urban legend, it because says that you can drive half way up a hill then put your car in nuetral with no brake and your car will magically be pushed over the top of the hill...


 
Posted : 07/02/2008 12:30 am
 Kiva
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No gravity hill here in the high desert...it is pretty flat here...lol but I grew up in the LA Basin and I can remember going to one when I was a teenager....boy that was a long time ago....It was somewhere near Mullholand Drive. But then I can remember going to a place where the hermit with the hook lived.....lmao I think it was just a ruse to get the girls to hold on tighter to the guys. 😳


 
Posted : 07/02/2008 7:23 pm
(@bkiff)
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What's a hill? I live in NJ. 😉


 
Posted : 07/02/2008 8:22 pm
(@stmac70)
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We had a place in a town near ours that you would stop and put your car in nuetral and it would look like the car would roll up hill. I saw a show some years ago that looked at this urban myth and went to a place that this was suppose to happen and they tried it out and it did indeed happen,then they got their surveying equipment out and even though it looked like it was uphill the road actually was going down hill. It was an optical illusion that made it look like it was going uphill when in all actuallity it was going down hill.


 
Posted : 07/02/2008 8:35 pm
(@timbolsf)
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We had a place in a town near ours that you would stop and put your car in nuetral and it would look like the car would roll up hill. I saw a show some years ago that looked at this urban myth and went to a place that this was suppose to happen and they tried it out and it did indeed happen,then they got their surveying equipment out and even though it looked like it was uphill the road actually was going down hill. It was an optical illusion that made it look like it was going uphill when in all actuallity it was going down hill.

yup..its funny how the same urban legends seem to propogate in ever town. 😆


 
Posted : 09/02/2008 1:07 am
(@spooked_1)
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My mom worked in DisneyLand when i was born. Infact my mom went into labor with me in the park while waiting for my aunt who works there also to get off work. My mom had time to make it the hospital. Too bad cause it would of been cool to tell everyone i was born in DisneyLand.
So anyway im from the area and across the street in Knotts BerryFarm. I love that place. It's more for the grown ups then Disney. One of my favorite place there is an Haunted Shack. And one of the steets are just like you are talking about. You can even go in this shack and stand at a serious slant, but your really standing streight up. To freeky. Has anyone else been there. I haven't been there in 20 years. Is it still there? Sounds like they tore it out. Bummer.

Scroll down to half page.
Here's a link to it...... http://01508f4.netsolstores.com/index.a ... ProdID=129


 
Posted : 09/02/2008 2:24 am
(@pammykins)
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never been to the shack in fl but remember my dad taking us to a gravity hill somewhere in fl


 
Posted : 12/02/2008 2:23 am
(@ariana)
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Ah yes! There is one at Franklin Lakes, N.J. on the exit ramp East of Rt. 208. Ewing Ave. exit 59 I think it is.


 
Posted : 02/07/2008 4:22 am
(@ilook4spooks)
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Here is a list per state http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magnetic_hills


 
Posted : 02/07/2008 7:57 am
(@dreamers_legacy)
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Bummer Arizona doesnt have one....
I guess I need to travel more!

Jody


 
Posted : 03/07/2008 3:27 am
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