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Old Dec 27, 2024 | 08:39 AM
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Pennsylvania has 3 Gravity Hills, one near Lewisberry in York county around 13 miles south of Harrisburg, one in Bedford County in South Central PA and one North of Pittsburgh. They are optical illusions I presume. The local legend in Bedford is that there was a tragic accident with a school bus getting hit by a train killing many children. The ghosts of the children are said to push cars uphill away from the RT tracks.

edit: I just found out there is a gravity hill in bucks county near Philadelphia.
 
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Originally Posted by abe
Pennsylvania has 3 Gravity Hills, one near Lewisberry in York county around 13 miles south of Harrisburg, one in Bedford County in South Central PA and one North of Pittsburgh. They are optical illusions I presume. The local legend in Bedford is that there was a tragic accident with a school bus getting hit by a train killing many children. The ghosts of the children are said to push cars uphill away from the RT tracks.

edit: I just found out there is a gravity hill in bucks county near Philadelphia.
yes, optical illusion. we had one here for many many years, then around 20 years ago the town regraded the road and surrounding area to stop all the people from rolling with no power as the road became very active and a lot of accidents started happening.
 
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We don't do that here. Gravity is a law, and we follow the law.
 
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Old Dec 29, 2024 | 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by abe
Pennsylvania has 3 Gravity Hills, one near Lewisberry in York county around 13 miles south of Harrisburg, one in Bedford County in South Central PA and one North of Pittsburgh. They are optical illusions I presume. The local legend in Bedford is that there was a tragic accident with a school bus getting hit by a train killing many children. The ghosts of the children are said to push cars uphill away from the RT tracks.

edit: I just found out there is a gravity hill in bucks county near Philadelphia.
I grew up near Valencia just a few miles from the one north of Pittsburgh. I never knew that it was there until your post Abe.
https://www.pennlive.com/life/2018/0...nsylvania.html

 
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There's a road up by where I live that is the same.
 
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Kind of reminds me of this guy..
 
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Apparently the folks in Moncton have embraced the unusual:



They built a parking lot and a strip of road on the site.
They built a parking lot and a strip of road on the site.

Instructions.
Instructions.

Its a theme park.
It's a theme park.

 
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There are sooo many!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravity_hills

 
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