Rural Pennsylvania does not have much going for it. That’s probably why someone from Bedford County, Pa., created an entire website devoted to the region’s top attraction: a hill. Gravity Hill is a “phenomenon,” boasts the website. An optical illusion makes cars appear to roll uphill and water flow the wrong way. But legend has it that dead school children push cars back up the hill. It makes sense when you see it. Check out this shaky YouTube demonstration:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUSDMPmo56U]
Bedford, Pa., isn’t the only place around here with a gravity hill. A two hour drive from DC, Burkittsville, Maryland, the site of 1990’s horror flick the Blair Witch Project. Unfortunately, this hill doesn’t have it’s own website, but it is captured on YouTube.
I hope to stop off in at the more famous (and better marketed) gravity hill on the way to a camping trip at Ohiopyle, Pa., over Memorial Day weekend.
Gravity Hill
Rural Pennsylvania does not have much going for it. That’s probably why someone from Bedford County, Pa., created an entire website devoted to the region’s top attraction: a hill. Gravity Hill is a “phenomenon,” boasts the website. An optical illusion makes cars appear to roll uphill and water flow the wrong way. But legend has it that dead school children push cars back up the hill. It makes sense when you see it. Check out this shaky YouTube demonstration:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUSDMPmo56U]
Bedford, Pa., isn’t the only place around here with a gravity hill. A two hour drive from DC, Burkittsville, Maryland, the site of 1990’s horror flick the Blair Witch Project. Unfortunately, this hill doesn’t have it’s own website, but it is captured on YouTube.
I hope to stop off in at the more famous (and better marketed) gravity hill on the way to a camping trip at Ohiopyle, Pa., over Memorial Day weekend.
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