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Anti-gravity spot

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Anti-gravity spot

Postby Gearbox on Fri May 15, 2009 12:07 pm

There is a particular area in Barbados where people have said that if you stop your car on the hill and put it in neutral and release the brakes, the car will appear to be rolling up the hill all by itself. I have travelled that road many times but never tested the phenomena myself. Name the hill\area!
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Re: Anti-gravity spot

Postby Jock on Fri May 15, 2009 1:00 pm

So why not try it?
There is a similar, even more dramatic one in southwestern Scotland (Ayrshire) called The Electric Brae.
Actually tested myself back in 2005 & it was unreal.
This one works both ways in that going one way the road looks to be slanted downwards yet your car slows to a halt & then reverses "uphill" while in the other direction the road looks to be uphill yet your car cruises on without the accelerator.
Good thing it's out in the hickies cause you can almost always find a bunch of tourists blocking the road, trying it out :swear: :goofy:

Oh yeah, de bajan wun is at Morgan Lewis :grin:
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Re: Anti-gravity spot

Postby Gearbox on Fri May 15, 2009 2:00 pm

Jock wrote:So why not try it?
There is a similar, even more dramatic one in southwestern Scotland (Ayrshire) called The Electric Brae.
Actually tested myself back in 2005 & it was unreal.
This one works both ways in that going one way the road looks to be slanted downwards yet your car slows to a halt & then reverses "uphill" while in the other direction the road looks to be uphill yet your car cruises on without the accelerator.
Good thing it's out in the hickies cause you can almost always find a bunch of tourists blocking the road, trying it out :swear: :goofy:

Oh yeah, de bajan wun is at Morgan Lewis :grin:


Man I know you wuddah jump all ovah dah wun. I gine try it out this weekend. So would I have to be coming down Cherry Tree Hill heading towards the windmill, or going in the other direction??

Actually there are quite a few of those spots around the world...

Mystery Spot Road, off Branciforte Dr. Santa Cruz, CA, USA. A spot 50m in diameter in the redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains
Mystery Spot, Putney Road, Benzie County, Michigan, USA.
Gravity Hill, Northwest Baltimore County, USA. along a public road that ran through the Soldier's Delight environmental area.
Gravity Hill, Mooresville, Southwest Indianapolis, USA. Located off SR 42 on the South side of Mooresville.
Gravity Road, Ewing Road exit ramp off Route 208, Franklin Lakes, USA.
Mystery Hill, Blowing Rock, hwy 321, Carolina, USA.
Confusion Hill, Idelwild Park, Ligonier, Pennsylvania, USA.
Gravity Hill, off of State Route 96 just south of New Paris, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Gravity Hill (near White's Hill) , just South of Rennick Road, on County Truck U, South of Shullsburg, in LaFayette County, Wisconsin, USA
Oregon Vortex, near Gold-Hill, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA.
Spook Hill, North Wales Drive, North Avenue, Lake Wales, Florida, USA.
Spook Hill, Gapland Road just outside Burkittsville, Gapland (Frederick County), Maryland, USA.
Magnetic Hill, Near Neepawa in Manitoba, Canada.
Magnetic Hill, just off the Trans Canada highway, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Gravity Hill, on McKee Rd. just before Ledgeview Golf Course in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada.
Electric Brae, on the A719, Near Croy Bay, South of Ayr, Ayeshire, Scotland.
Anti-Gravity Hill, Straws Lane Road, Wood-End, Near hanging rock, Victoria, Australia
Morgan Lewis Hill, St Andrew, Barbados.
Hill South of Rome, in Colli Albani, near Frascati, Italy.
Malveira da Serra, on N247 coast road West of Lisbon, Portugal
Mount Penteli, on a road to Mount Penteli, Athens, Greece
Mount Halla, on the 1.100 highway a few miles south of the airport, near Mount Halla, on the island of Cheju Do, South Korea
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