Anti-Gravity Hill Anti-Gravity Hill

Not far from Melbourne is one of its best kept secrets and most unusual and baffling places, Anti-Gravity Hill in Straws Lane, Woodend.

Standing near the bottom of a hill facing up hill, if you tip water onto the road it flows 'up' the hill not downhill as gravity would normally do. Place a ball on the road and the same thing happens, it rolls up hill. If you are in a car, stop at the bottom of the hill, place the drive in neutral and it will slowly roll UP the hill.. wtf!

Another writer describes it as.. magnetic pull | it's a steep hill and cars appear to roll up the hill. If you run, it feels like you're running downhill when you're running up.

Anti-Gravity Hill

Anti-Gravity Hill is a country lane surrounded by a lop-sided landscape. A spirit level would show a slope going downwards, but your senses tell you it runs upwards. The best way to show the illusion is to stop the car, release the handbrake and say 'wow' when you start to roll apparently uphill. So popular is this pursuit that it has created one of the most dangerous stretches of road in Australia - anti-gravity experimenters run the gauntlet of trucks and tractors going about their normal business.

Call It?

It is hard to know exactly what to call it. We found many many references including anti-gravity hill, gravity hill, magnetic hill, mystery hill, mystery spot, gravity road plus there is gravity lane and anti-gravity lane.

A gravity hill is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces the optical illusion that a downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope. Thus, a car left out of gear will appear to be rolling uphill against gravity.

There are hundreds of gravity ??? locations around the world. At the time of writing (25-8-2013) our Anti-Gravity Lane (Straws Lane, Woodend) is not mentioned in Wikipedia's List of gravity hills, but we will add it shortly.

video

There are many videos of Straw Lane, as this one by puppydoglover shows how her car rolls 'up' Anti-Gravity Hill - Straws Lane in Woodend.