Magnetic Hill
When you get to Magnetic Hill park near the sign, put your vehicle in neutral gear, and watch it roll uphill...
Category Geological Oddities, Mystery Spots and Gravity Hills
Magnetic hill is located on black Rock Road near the townships of Pekina and Peterborough in rural South Australia, several hours drive north east of Adelaide.
A drive along the road will reveal a strange sculpture of a giant magnet and rusty bicycle. Looking forward as the road winds its way upwards into a small nest of hills, you would expect a car in neutral to roll back down the hill. But in some strange confluence of topographic anomalies, a car set in neutral will begin to roll (or appears to) roll uphill.
Best experienced with a carload of mystified children or better yet, take some of your friends and try and be the first person to figure out exactly what is going on... and aliens don't count as an explanation.
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- Hours Open all day and night, but this is a public road, so best experienced safely during the day in clear weather.
- Address Black Rock Road, Pekina, 5487, Australia
- Cost Free
Take the road from Peterborough to Orroroo. Around 25 km from Peterborough you will come to a T-Junction - left to Jamestown and right to Orroroo. Turn left and travel approximately 1km, when you will cross over a railway crossing. Around 400 metres from that crossing and on the right-hand side of the road, there is a gravel road with a sign 'Magnetic Hill 8 km'. Just follow the signs.
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if you believe there to be a magnetic anomaly, just use two plumb lines, one made of iron and one made of stone. They would hang at different angles if a strong magnetic field was acting horizontally. however, if you think there is a gravitational anomaly plumb lines and levels cannot be relied on. magnetic anomalies are never that strong anyway, and never the cause, so i have read. so agreeing with the other two comments, you have yourself an optical illusion.
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Anonymous
June 27, 2009
just take a bubble level with you next time and lay it on the road. if the bubble shows you are going up hill then we need to figure a better explanation lol -
Anonymous
June 24, 2009
You'd think the "uphill rolling" of the car could be due to unusually large amounts of magnetic minerals under the top of the hill. But magnetic fields diminish with the cube of the distance from the source, so the effect would vary immensely based on where exactly the vehicle began. Instead, About.com explains it just as the commenter above does: Optical illusion. http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa120301b.htm
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Anonymous
June 22, 2009
I know of a place here in Argentina where the exact same thing happens... this is due to an optical illusion of the road being downhill when it´s really the other way....
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