Gravity Hill
Gravity Hills are locations where supposedly if you park your car and leave it in neutral it will somehow roll up the slope of the nearby hill. Several are rumored throughout California including San Diego, La Jolla, Livermore, Moorpark, Altadena, Los Angeles, Antioch, etc.
Scientific reasoning often explains this as an optical illusion which makes it appear as if you are rolling up hill. Supposedly if you take out a carpenter's level, it will actually prove that you are indeed rolling downhill. Course this may or may not explain places like the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot which does attempt to debunk the optical illusion aspect of its site.
Eventually, we plan on checking out some of these and seeing if our car does indeed roll uphill, but for now, since we had so many inquiries, we decided to put up this stub of a page to handle the requests.
Altadena Gravity Hill
Directions to the supposed Altadena Gravity Hill: From Highway 210 in Pasadena, head north on Lake Avenue. Turn right onto Altadena Drive. Turn left onto Porter and go until it ends at E. Loma Alta Dr. Turn left on Loma Alta. Go over a few dips, and around a couple of corners. Go up the hill and right around the second sign for Sunnyoaks. You will be facing "downhill," evergreen trees to your left with something that resembles a flood control channel past that, a wall of rock and dirt to your right. If you go over a bridge after curving to the left you've gone too far.
Antioch Gravity Hill
Apparently this gravity hill is a result of children who died on the scene. Ironically, several gravity hills have the death of children attached to their site through urban legend. They apparently push your car away from the area so you don't suffer the same fate they did. One story states rather plainly that the students all drowned when they skidded off the road during a school trip on a school bus. Another more outlandish story claims that they were all murdered by an insane escapee from the nearby and now closed asylum. Apparently the asylum escapee made it onto the bus and killed them all. For added terror, there's also suppose to be an abandoned slaughter house in the same area.
Comments:
- Andrew of Valencia, CA on 2010-07-16 said:
- There is a gravity hill on the 126 heading towards the 101, where the red schoolhouse is. If you make the right across the street and go as far as you can, you'll run into a gate. Put that baby in neutral and WHAMMO.
- Richard of Ca on 2010-06-29 said:
- There is also a "Gravity Hill" in Corona.
- Sandy of San Bernardino, Ca on 2010-06-11 said:
- Where exactly is the gravity hill in Moreno Valley? I would like to check it out
- Louis Mata of Whittier, CA on 2010-05-18 said:
- Rose Hills Cemetery in Whittier also has a gravity hill. Located inside gate 1, ask at the front booth for the location and they'll hand you a map.
- monica of hawthorne , ca on 2010-04-05 said:
- i was there last night we had put the car in N and it was still moving but i herd the story was that a bus crashed with little kids on it and they help you push your car to play with you some times and you can see little hand prints on the car!
- Phantom of Moreno Valley, CA on 2010-03-25 said:
- There is something like that I found here near Moreno Valley. The thing is, you can feel your car getting pushed. The story is, is that a man was fixing a tire, when someone came around and ran him over. It is told that when he sees a car parked he will try to move it. I tried it, and the car actually moved. Every so and so seconds you could feel a something forcing the car.
- ERICK W of LAKEWOOD, CA on 2009-11-30 said:
- there is another gravity hill,up in kagel canyon, in lakeview terrace,ca..and the only thing there besides the road is two cemetary,spooky stuff........
- Tracey of San Bernardino, Ca on 2009-11-10 said:
- There is a Gravity Hill in Redlands,Ca. I've been there, its an odd experience for sure. It was several years back, but we put the car in nutral and up when went (or what appeards to be up...)
- Alan of Antioch, Ca on 2009-10-06 said:
- I live in Antioch... They also say that if you put powder on the back of your car, when the kids push it, they will leave hand prints. I'm pretty sure the hill is closed off now though. And slaughter house supposedly has blood stains all over the place. I've never gone in it though.
- Josh of Ramona, California on 2009-09-27 said:
- There's a gravity hill in ramona california. My friends and i tried it and it rolled up hill but as soon as we were done tring it, some indians claimed that we were in their property. We didn't want any problems so we left because we think they had weapons with them. You guys should try it but not at the time we did it which was at 1:45 AM, because the indians might start problems
- Wysper of san diego , ca on 2008-10-07 said:
- We have a gravity hill in Ramona CA as well it works best at night but its a very dark creepy area my heavy duty truck was pulled backwards in neutral up hill and over the crest of the hill it feels weird like limbo your hair stands up and you feel suspended its a very cool experiance
- Jonathan Jose Jackson III of Pasadena , Califas on 2008-10-01 said:
- I know of a Gravity Hill in Altadena on Loma Alta Dr about a block west of Lake Ave. I haven't been there since the early 1980s. As a teen in the late 60s thru the 70s a group of us would drive there, place the car in neutral or disengage the clutch, then by looking towards the side not straight ahead, although we would coast downhill it would appear we were going up hill, an optival illusion but entertaining. Like the Old Knotts berry Farm Crazy House that had water running up the faucet and pool balls rolling uphill
- nancy lage of los angeles, california on 2008-08-10 said:
- I need directions to gravity hill from the Pasadena 210 fwy.
some one said that I sould exit off liveoak ave. and go north toward the mountains till it ends. Is this true?
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Last Edited: 2009-03-05
