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From: mwg@petrus.UUCP (Mark Garrett)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re: Weird Gravitational effects at Lake Delton Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 11:08:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 11:08:33 1985
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> > There is a similar weird "gravitational" effect somewhere in Scotland 
> > been years and years and I can't remember where) that is called a magnetic
> > hill. If you drive 'downhill', turn around and put the car in neutral,
> > it will then roll back 'uphill'.
> > Pete
> > ihnp4!sask!hardie
>   There is a similar place in Florida - about 30-40 mi. south of
> Orlando.  I think it is near Lake Wales, near some kind of tower.
> I stopped my car and it rolled "uphill".  It was not a dramatic
> slope - but to the eyes the car was clearly rolling uphill.
> --henry schaffer

The one in Florida is called "Spook Hill", outside of Lake Wales, near
Bock Tower.  As you approach the bottom of the hill, you will invariably
stop part-way up the slope, thinking you are on the bottom, then roll back
down.  When you go up the other side, you can clearly see the mistake the
next car is making.  The illusion is purely optical.
-Mark


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