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Post by Daniel on Jun 1, 2009 20:00:34 GMT -4
FAKE! don't try this stupid shit. we just got back from Richfield rd in greensboro and it didn't work at all. the road is right behind a movie theater and its not even scary looking. we tried everything, there was no one moving us uphill, but we got a bunch of baby powder all over our car! sweet! waste of time!! It's not Richfield Rd. in Greensboro, It's Richfield Rd, in the town of Richfield. My friends and I just tried it 2 nights ago. You do go (what seems to be) up hill while in neutral. The baby powder on the back of the car - thing doesn't work. There's no finger or hand prints. There's lines where the air went over the back of the car and blew some off, but nothing else. This road is filled with graffiti... at LEASE a half mile worth of it. It's horrible. Here's a few pics of the road..
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Post by michael818 on Jun 2, 2009 16:19:17 GMT -4
That means no one has touched that trunk and left oils behind in a while...
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Post by fatcat161 on Jun 22, 2009 10:40:02 GMT -4
The Rowan County location is at N35 35.008 W80 14.701 on Richfield Rd just off Bringle Ferry Rd. It is easily identified by the graffiti painted on the road.
It is an optical illusion as the altitude on the GPS atthe “bottom” of the hill is 684 ft and the “top” is 667 ft. It is still neat and does "work".
Fatcat
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Post by Rob on Jun 27, 2009 1:43:52 GMT -4
I'm not sure exactly where the one I went to was, I want to say it was an offramp in High Point maybe? Anyway, yes it's an optical illusion. Yes, you MAY see handprints on the trunk of your car with flour or baby powder IF you haven't washed it in awhile. If someone has touched your car the oils in their hands can penetrate through the paint, sometimes washing the car won't remove all the oil either. If you put powder over it it will show the imprint of your hand or finger or whatever. Go out and cover your car right now with flour, and I guarantee you'll find some "ghost prints" on there somewhere. How do you think police dust for fingerprints?
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Post by Rick on Aug 5, 2009 13:25:04 GMT -4
I agree with micheal ,there are far too many to be really outstanding as far as paranormal. Most are optical illusions but hey, who knows? Gravity Hill in Denton NC while the terrain looks to be rising, the road is definately on a sloped incline downwards. there are some factual details of the area, but most of the stories are from folks that are wanting something to happen or they are shal we say "emtionaly enhanced" by one means or another in 25+ years of hearing the accounts.........it has yet to be proven by my actual presence or by film
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Post by KB on Aug 19, 2009 3:09:54 GMT -4
There are many gravity hills in the world. I live within two miles of the one in Richfield/Pooletown. It definitely is an optical illusion but because of how the road lays, sometimes you get a thrill by there being a odd patch of misty fog that isn't visible anywhere near. It's fun to go up backwards on the other side of the road too. But BE CAREFUL. The truck another poster claims to have seen is probably somebody local that either was playing with you or pissed that you were impeding traffic. There are many far scarier places in this area of the county.
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Post by courtney barnes on Apr 12, 2010 18:00:11 GMT -4
OK yuh may think im lien but we went in maxton it really works there wer hand prints on the hud cause we put powder on it so we cud c we rolled ab 5 feet up da hill i was so skard
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Post by michael818 on Apr 13, 2010 11:05:02 GMT -4
The handprints would show up just about anywhere... IF someon has recently touched the trunk. When you touch your car, you inevitably leave oils from your skin, and this would appear to be prints. If you can recreate it scientifically, it simply cannot be considered evidence...
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Post by Carrie on Apr 17, 2010 12:13:05 GMT -4
i live here and there is no paranormal activity. my father grades property and says that anyone who has ever done that work can tell just by looking that its an illusion from the grading of highway 21 and the hill from gravity hill is actually going down.
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Post by michael818 on Apr 19, 2010 11:39:19 GMT -4
I live in Yadkin, and worked in Elkin for years. And I have friends up there... That is quite true. In interviewing older people, and researching through records, I DID find evidence that a child was killed in front of the house that was burned, way back when that road was US 21, before the new road was built. But all the stories about murder, suicide, etc... are false, or misplacement of stories from other sites. You will notice that in this thread, there are dozens of so-called "Gravity Hills" all over the state. Which is the origin story? Who knows?
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Post by Caryn on Jun 24, 2010 1:27:24 GMT -4
OK I went to a Gravity Hill when I was younger. I can not remember the name of it. I will try asking the people I was with. but we knew what we were going to do that night so everybody washed their cars well. I live in Winston Salem but was coming from King. It took us about an hour to get there. We put the powder on our cars. We went to the area took the caar out of gear and sat. We ended up very slowly going. When we got done we went to an area that was gravel with street lights right by a lake to check out the cars. They had all kinds of prints all over the backs like someone was trying to push us. They were strange though some finger prints looked like they were trying so hard they were falling as they were pushing. The story was that a women a long time ago was pushing her baby on a stroller as a truck wrecked and fell on her baby and the women was still living in the moment trying to push the truck? ? Dont know true all this is but it was fun and a nice memory with a good story to tell that I experienced.
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Post by michael818 on Jun 24, 2010 15:55:13 GMT -4
The fingerprints have a natural explanation, I'm afraid. When we touch our vehicle, OUR prints remain, and the oils remain. Over time, the oils may shrink in area, thus leaving a "child's" print. This is documented, and so all these powder on the car stories simply cannot be considered evidence... til, of course, they are BLOODY prints! lol...
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Post by beentheredonethat on Aug 21, 2010 22:01:46 GMT -4
Ive been several years back skipping school with friends.
Story is there was a family man, wife, and 3 babies. The father went crazy and killed them all. The babies push you away from the house to protect you.
House is still standing and covered in weeds you can barely see the house. The road they push you up is a slight hill. NO WAY that any thing can drift up the road.
Anyways...Broad daylight and i was sitting in the bed of the truck with a few others and the cab was full of friends. We shifted into neutral and turned the vehicle off. Within seconds the babies started pushing the truck up the hill and to the end of the road once there we turned on the vehicle said thank you went on our way. We stopped at the gas station to get gas before we got on the interstate to go back to a few towns over and on the side the truck we saw 3 sets of VISIBLE finger prints. They were in position that physically humans woulld not push a vehicle if in that situation. We didnt coat the vehicle with anything they just appeared .
Also there are 2 other spots around Elkin called the baptism hole and devils church that also have paranormal activites we have noticed also.
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Post by michael818 on Aug 24, 2010 12:36:20 GMT -4
Ive been several years back skipping school with friends. Story is there was a family man, wife, and 3 babies. The father went crazy and killed them all. The babies push you away from the house to protect you. House is still standing and covered in weeds you can barely see the house. The road they push you up is a slight hill. NO WAY that any thing can drift up the road. Sorry. This story is completely untrue. There was no family murder here, just like several places where that story shows up. I know the house you refer to, and it is NOT the house which was associated with the ghost story. That house was burned down years ago by frustrated neighbors. This road was once US 21. Try going up there and either walking, or riding a bike to the place where the weed covered house is. You will then have no doubt whatsoever of the true grade of the hill. Anyways...Broad daylight and i was sitting in the bed of the truck with a few others and the cab was full of friends. We shifted into neutral and turned the vehicle off. Within seconds the babies started pushing the truck up the hill and to the end of the road once there we turned on the vehicle said thank you went on our way. We stopped at the gas station to get gas before we got on the interstate to go back to a few towns over and on the side the truck we saw 3 sets of VISIBLE finger prints. They were in position that physically humans woulld not push a vehicle if in that situation. We didnt coat the vehicle with anything they just appeared . Also there are 2 other spots around Elkin called the baptism hole and devils church that also have paranormal activites we have noticed also. Michael here... Somehow, my response ended up in the middle of what I was trying to quote and respond to. The house that was allegedly haunted was burned down by angry, frustrated people years ago, and only the garage remains, IF that is still there. The abandoned house where the pavement ends is just that... an abandoned house...
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Post by rocomaverick on Sept 15, 2010 9:26:29 GMT -4
I've never put much stock in "gravity hill" locations, as I've always seen them as an optical illusion, but I'm open minded if anyone can provide any hard evidence to support paranormal activity.
I've been to the one near High Rock Lake that has been mentioned here a few times already. I only went once, and the only things notable about it were: yes, cars do "appear" to roll uphill; one of my friends rode his motorcycle and it "pushed" him too, lol; another one of my friends brought his Honda S2000 and did not roll, no matter what he did. In other words, it was interesting, but nothing that can't be easily explained by basic physics.
Now, I have heard of something noteworthy happening to some friends of mine there one night. They were out "ghost hunting" at that gravity hill and had parked their cars on the sides of the road and were out "investigating" when they heard what they all said sounded just like a 18-wheeler's "jake brake", as if the truck was going down the road right where they were, but there was nothing there. Now, of course, being the hardcore "paranormal investigators" they are (please note the sarcasm), they immediately jumped in their cars and got out of there as fast as they could. According to what I heard, only one of them wanted to stay, but he had rode there with someone else and his ride threatened him with "Get in the car right now or I'm leaving you here!" lol. I would've loved to have been there that night to hear it for myself and investigate possible sources of the noise. What's interesting is one of the (many) stories about gravity hill involves an 18-wheeler hitting and killing a woman and her baby, so the "jake brake" could go along with that story (obviously, this ASSUMES that the story is true, but in all likeliness, it probably isn't).
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