Is this not just how every hill in Australia works?

@matejnovosad9152

2 жыл бұрын

This is the only normal hill in AUS

@justinbuddy56

2 жыл бұрын

Wait they have hills in Australia? I thought all the hills were craters

@Dante_Sparda_DMC

2 жыл бұрын

Hills in Australia are a thing?

@alearvotti

2 жыл бұрын

Is australia a thing?

@renubala9968

2 жыл бұрын

Is thing?

Three hours each way is also the perfect amount of time I'd invest into messing with the kids minds in this closing week of holidays. Road trip!

@JulianOShea

3 жыл бұрын

That’s the spirit!

@lakie2042

3 жыл бұрын

@Count Vulgar Actually did it. 700km odd round trip but the 7yo is now questioning whether gravity is a thing so I'm claiming it.

@lakie2042

3 жыл бұрын

@Count Vulgar didn't stop at the Vortex. That's what World's End is named for yea?

@patrickbaker7014

2 жыл бұрын

@@JulianOShea Is that a pun?

@peterbartley9155

2 жыл бұрын

I love messing with the kids minds.

Imagine being that first guy, I would've thought I was crazy

@dielaughing73

2 жыл бұрын

I've experienced it on a pushbike before, as he mentioned. We knew something was weird so we poured water on the ground and it went 'up'. Not much you can do but drop a gear and keep pedalling!

@drafezard7315

2 жыл бұрын

@@dielaughing73 *X-files music plays*

3:29 *its the old Window XP desktop background , but during a drought haha XD*

@gorillaau

2 жыл бұрын

If you put a spirit level across the top of the start bar, yout will find that it's tapered, when comparing the bottom of the start bar.

@EPICGAMER-mx3ws

2 жыл бұрын

lmao

@abyssstrider2547

2 жыл бұрын

Actually Bliss was taken in California.

@matty4z

2 жыл бұрын

@@abyssstrider2547 ...ok

@abyssstrider2547

2 жыл бұрын

@@matty4z Yeah, the default Windows XP background is called Bliss.

In the 1960s there was a stretch of the A406 in South Woodford, UK, that did this. On my bike my muscles knew which way the slope went, but my eyes would tell me differently - it seemed very peculiar. (That stretch of road has by now been long replaced by an M11 elevated slip road.)

@cxpycxt13

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah there’s one near Chigwell in the UK called hangmans hill. You can still go there, we went there when we visited London

There’s two of these types of hills near my old home in Northern California, U.S.A., both are also illusions. The terrain at both sites is very similar to that in this video, rolling grassy hills with some trees.

@DanielBerke

2 жыл бұрын

Dunno if it's the same place, but I know of one such place in northern California where there's a canal along the road and it gives the coolest illusion of the water flowing uphill.

@jwjustjwgd

2 жыл бұрын

I've been to a similar place in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

@goodluck5642

2 жыл бұрын

@@DanielBerke curious where if you see this!

@philadelphus3570

2 жыл бұрын

@@goodluck5642 I unfortunately don't remember a name or a location, I just remember it was maybe an hour's drive away from where I grew up. I only visited it once or twice, I think.

There is also a spot in Victoria near Hanging Rock.

@hoverhead047

2 жыл бұрын

He travelled all the way to OBSA when he only needed to go the Mt Macedon in Vic.

@50Hz

2 жыл бұрын

@@hoverhead047 thats what i was thinking, but he does say he lived in SA in another video so maybe he was visiting family

@trevormcdonald586

2 жыл бұрын

@@hoverhead047 its an illusion D,A and the one in Victoria is no different, Victorians think they have everything

@trevormcdonald586

2 жыл бұрын

@@50Hz and you're wrong just as his comment is

@50Hz

2 жыл бұрын

@@trevormcdonald586 I didn’t say I was Victorian or that is wasn’t an illusion.

I was honestly proud that i knew that it was a optical illusion. A science kids show in germany covered the same thing (just on a hill somewhere in germany) and explained it the same way (I think the problm there was that it was hilly and foresty so reference was missing aswell). Keep up the good work :D

@data_corrupted

2 жыл бұрын

Gallileo?

@falcoperegrinus3712

2 жыл бұрын

Same it feels nice when you figure it out on your own before he says something

@birchbarks550

2 жыл бұрын

@@data_corrupted wissen mach Ah!

@Rukalin

2 жыл бұрын

@@data_corrupted Also thought it was Galileo, I'm pretty sure I saw it there

I experienced the same phenomena walking levadas in Madeira. Seemed to happen where the levada was about to disappear around the bluff of the hillside. A strong sense the path was rising ahead when in fact it was evidently dropping as evidenced by the flow of the water. For those unfamiliar with them levadas are small canals transporting water from the mountains for irrigation.

Im so glad I travelled 700kms to experience this phenomenon and than watched this video just 10km out from reaching magnetic hill.... ive completely shattered and ruined my trip 😰

@JustinHunter-Gaarindor

2 жыл бұрын

Just like with TV shows, never look up things on the internet if you don't want spoilers :P

@ellecee7974

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustinHunter-Gaarindor brother you are so right

@FawadBilgrami

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, watching something and experiencing it first is totally different. You did the right thing. I would visit it too if the restrictions here in Sydney ease off.

The answer was exactly what my logical mind assumed prior to watching. There's a place near me where I always feel like it's a slight uphill, but my cycle _knows_ it's a slight downhill. Likewise, it's in an area where you don't have a visible horizon.

@swagmankayearIQ

2 жыл бұрын

cringe pfp

@charbelnakad7668

2 жыл бұрын

Stupid profile picture

@Frognungun

2 жыл бұрын

@@swagmankayearIQ how

@Frognungun

2 жыл бұрын

@@charbelnakad7668 how

@swagmankayearIQ

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frognungun 🏳️‍🌈❌

As an Australian I can confirm this is how every hill in Australia works

Great video. I remember visiting this place as a kid. Seen a similar illusion when I was in Donghe Taiwan, where a waterway appears to run uphill.

There is also one near Mt Macedon, Victoria. Straws Lane. I took my Russian friend there and broke his brain ha ha! Also take props - water, basketball, yoga ball... ha ha

@JulianOShea

3 жыл бұрын

Nice - will have to check it out and compare. Glad you’re friend like it - it does ‘work’.

@missv8girl

3 жыл бұрын

@@JulianOShea that's my little "Undiscovered Victoria"! PS Great channel. Followed from Reddit.

@fuchsiebabe

3 жыл бұрын

@@JulianOShea One thing's for sure, it's much more accessible at less than an hour's drive from Melbourne. Worth the drive, especially for the scenery!

@percyvile

2 жыл бұрын

@@JulianOShea there's probably a few spots with interesting history around the Macedon ranges, could be worth a road trip when we're not in lockdown !

@Pheluv

2 жыл бұрын

I had a young cousin visit from New Zealand and took him there. When he told the family in NZ about it no one believed him. A few years later I took another cousin, she turned to me and said “ I owe Gene a huge apology, we really gave him a hard time about this” It’s a lot of fun!

In Australia: "there's a big magnet that pulls you up the hill"! In America: "The souls of the children who died here will push your car up the hill"!

@marmac83

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, how about all those slaughtered Aborigines in Australia?

@TheDerpyPie

2 жыл бұрын

@@marmac83 rip bozos

@nyanSynxPHOENIX

2 жыл бұрын

This just is such a believable statement, lol. The US is obsessed with hauntings.

@trollge3712

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDerpyPie ratio bozo

I like your cool little videos. It's nice to have some short ones pop up in my subscription feed.

@JulianOShea

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! As long as they need to be to tell the story, and no longer.

There is a similar hill in Ayrshire, Scotland, called 'The Electric Brae'.

@MirkoC407

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I've been there with friends from Kilmarnock while on a visit. Strange feeling. And when I was still active with US cars a forum member from Romania showed his Pontiac Trans Am rolling "uphill" in the Carpathians.

@krissiehaley2594

2 жыл бұрын

I did the one in Scotland 2019

there is a spot like this in Bacchus Marsh i used to go there often we used to try different items like a skateboard or a can

@cavramau

2 жыл бұрын

I tested a plastic bottle of water there.

Hey Julian, I found your channel via IWrockers channel, America Reacts, an American who love Australia and he showed an commented on this. A big shout out to Ian Wroker. I found out about Magnetic Hill in 2014 and in 2015. I put an old rectangular fish tank on my roof on my Jeep GC and on a known good flat level road. The tank was half filled (10L)with water and marked the level points via the water line on the tank walls. In April 2015 I went to Magnetic Hill with fish tank in hand and 10L of water. I stopped at the Magnetic Hill signs, put the fish tank on the roof in the same position, filled with 10L water. The level was biased towards the rear of the tank (rear of the car) about 7 mm from the level marker which indicated a downhill run not and uphill run. I then turned the car in the opposite direction, the water level was biased to the front. Debunked by a fish tank.

@JulianOShea

2 жыл бұрын

That’s good science! Well done. Glad you found it. Thanks iWrocker!

There's also a lovely walk there, in Orroroo, with Aboriginal rock carvings!

This is great. I live in Adelaide and have never been to Magnetic Hill - I am totally going to go now! Loving your videos btw. Stumbled across your channel and am hooked on learning all these quirky and interesting facts.

@sirBrouwer

2 жыл бұрын

wait you live in the home town of the way to famous Sofa shop.

@christopherjames7809

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirBrouwer that is very cryptic lol

Your content are quality mate! I learned so much from your channel

Love these vids!!! I subscribed!

You should have used an old school compass to show there's no crazy strong magnetic field too, that way it rules out any doubt over it.

There is also a road like this in Italy.

@lapomangoni6351

2 жыл бұрын

Dove?

@GeneralAeon

2 жыл бұрын

@@lapomangoni6351 what

@lapomangoni6351

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeneralAeon it's "where" in italian

Thank you so much for showing us all these tid bits of Aus!

This is fantastic. Keep up the good work.

i really wanna know what the reaction was of the guy who first discovered this. some 58 year old aussie tradie in the outback would have been priceless.

good videos man, hello from New Zealand! Watching you all morning expecting like 400k views per video, was shocked when I realised how many in actuality

@JulianOShea

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, mate!

There's a Magnetic Hill in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada too!

I wish you had recorded the car in neutral going "up" the hill *but with the spirit level in shot.* I'm a bit shocked you didn't do this.

@ColmGibney

2 жыл бұрын

He had a bubble level with him, but instead used a phone app (susceptible to magnetic influence) to demonstrate. He only used the bubble level, badly, on a tripod to demonstrate hills in the background. A bit suspect?

There's one in Perth as well and I've always said it was an optical illusion. Still funny to do and take unsuspecting people

@TransportofPerth

2 жыл бұрын

The one in Perth is so dangerous as cars just speed around the bend and could easily hit a standstill car.

The railway line from Woodvale to Bendigo has the same effect. Looks like your going down hill when your actually going up.

@drafezard7315

2 жыл бұрын

That not the same effect, that's the opposite.

@ValeriePallaoro

2 жыл бұрын

@@drafezard7315 in that it's an optical illusion, it _is_ the same effect, whether it's up/down or down/up, none of it is about magnetism or physical forces

@drafezard7315

2 жыл бұрын

@@ValeriePallaoro Brah, down and up are opposites.

@rodrigodelprat

2 жыл бұрын

@@drafezard7315 It is the same effect, up looks like down, and down looks like up, just depends which direction you're travelling.

As a Tasmanian, that's a long way to drive to and from just for an optical illusion.

Everyone knows that everywhere in Australia, gravity goes up because Australia is upside down.

This is awesome. I had not heard of this before.

There is one in Woodend, Vic. Didn't do the car thing, but rolled the ball down the road and the ball rolled back up.

Sometimes all it takes in a mad world is to a simple man to express pure science, love u and the way the world really works❤️

In Brisbane, specifically, the suburb of Mt Cotton is what we used to call "Spook Hill".

@BoomBrush

2 жыл бұрын

I used to leave around there, why was it called spook hill? All the hills im guessing? Mt Cotton road is borderline death road Edit: Looked it up, apparently a section of road in Mt Cotton has a similar effect but a reddit post suggested the effect is diminished due to council paving over the road in the 90s

@thepaedophileprofit3062

2 жыл бұрын

@@BoomBrush The road was paved for a long time. Any development that has occured out there probably had more effected, it was surrounded by bush back when I was last there, late last century

@scottyd2262

2 жыл бұрын

@@thepaedophileprofit3062 I remember going there 30years ago . I was going to comment about it as well

There is also a magnetic hill in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. This is an actual magnetic hill, the water runs down the hill and the cars go back up the hill. It's pretty cool.

@Mercure250

2 жыл бұрын

On Wikipedia, they say that the water does go "uphill". There is even a photo of it. That looks like a regular optical illusion to me.

@JBofBrisbane

Жыл бұрын

No, man... it's an optical illusion too. They all are.

There’s one of these sites in Hesket VIC near Hanging Rock. Have tried it years ago, it really looks and feels like it’s going up hill. I wonder if it’s the same illusion trick.

there is one in Victoria too, I can't recall exactly but its somewhere behind mount Macedon

A great demo could be dropping a ball and showing it roll "uphill"

We have one of these in PA. It’s not recognized in any way like there but it has the same effect

This also happens near hanging Rock in Victoria! There's a road we used to go to and do this all the time.

@jakesaddo

2 жыл бұрын

Straws Lane

Experienced a similar thing in Scotland on the "electric brae," slightly steeper than this example but I swear I can also remember being able to see the coast from it which makes me wonder how the optical illusion works. This was almost 10 years ago, however, so I could be wrong with that

There is also a place like this in my country, in Guatemala (we call it "mysterious path") where you can put a car, select neutral, and it will roll up instead of down

Great video. Didn't know this place existed. Gotta check it out! Are you related to John Safran?

There's a similar thing in the US called the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot. People have tons of pictures of things appearing to roll up hill, people leaning way more than possible, etc. But when you actually go there, you see it's an illusion and everything else is at an angle.

There is another one near Rhonert Park, Ca. I suggest aiming a laser level from a distance then checking that with a spirit level to see if there is a difference. Then see where the strongest deviation is coming from.

One hour north of Melbourne, close to Mt Macedon and Hanging Rock is the town of Woodend where you’ll find another Gravity Hill in the world. Known as Anti-Gravity Hill, the optical illusion is found in Straws Lane.

Your quality of videos is on par if not better than channels like Tom Scott and yet you don't have the large backing that they do. This is dedication and it pays off while watching them. Awsome videos man, really impressive!

I remember being shown one in the Castlemaine area. Freaks you out the first time.

There's also one of these a few hours outside of Melbourne, old childhood memory.

There's supposed to be one near Toowomba in Qld.

Oh we have a Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick, Canada, as well! I forget the details, but I think maybe that one is an optical illusion. I can't remember, haven't been there since I was little.

okay u gotta explain the gear shift. I'm a Newfoundlander. The snowflake icon - is that some kinda traction control if it snowed or was slippery? What about the foot/pedal button in between park and reverse?

I would love to see you do some video in Brisbane.

A long way to go to convince your misses that you’re leaving her....

There is one of these near Hanging Rock too

You make awesome videos mate no shit mark my words great things will happen for you bro

I have one steel car and one aluminium and plastic car, and I was getting ready to fly them both to Australia just to see them roll in opposite directions - until the reveal at the end.

Cool…there’s a gravity hill in San Diego too…Spring Valley area..my friend Ray took me there watched a beer can roll UP the hill

There is a spot around Prince Henry Drive in Toowoomba.

There is a hill like this north of Fort Collins, CO in the US. A stream goes under the road and looks like it runs up hill when it doesn't.

Plumbers be like: Well if shit still runs downhill, there's only one way to test this

@gorillaau

2 жыл бұрын

Darn it. The shit sticks to the road, now what?

@whatshappenedhere1784

2 жыл бұрын

@@gorillaau Alternatively, go when its raining

I experienced one also on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines while doing work for the merchant navy academy. Legend has it that there were bulk ammunition and military hardware buried at the top of the hill after the war. It was a hot day and I had a bottle of water with me. Didn't take too long to work out what was happening!

@alexandraami

2 жыл бұрын

Whoa would love to experience that too here

We have a few in Australia. I’ve been to the one near hanging rock a few times … called Anti gravity hill … it’s a optical illusion as there is no true horizon 😊 so it appears to be going up hill . It’s still magical for the kids and the young at heart … 😂❤😂

There's also one just round the corner from Hanging Rock in Victoria on Straws Lane. Would've been a quicker journey for you ;)

We have something similar here in Ireland called the magic hill, near the cooley mountains.

Great ending! Extremely interesting stuff. My brain would have been fooled for sure.

Straws lane or something towards Kyneton has this effect too

Good video man

So I’m curious about the sign alleging steel vs aluminium cars will go different directions. Is that a flat out lie? If not, how is that so?

@JulianOShea

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it’s not true. It looks a little odd on this as it’s on an official sign - but if you Google the Magnetic Hill sign - there was previously a hand-painted one which was more in the spirit of - ‘have some fun with this’ and they kept that same piece of text on the new more formal one (which does explain the phenomena - the old one didn’t).

@simon_patterson

2 жыл бұрын

It's some good old fashioned Australian humour. Unfortunately this kind of humour is being lost, as Australians have increasingly started taking themselves far too seriously.

I lived up that way many years ago and took a few people there at least half a dozen times in different vehicles. Each enjoyed the experience with wonder. I was always under the belief it was an optical illusion. Last week I was up there with a friend in her new car and nothing happened. Her car didn't move. She was disappointed. Also we watched another woman drive up for the experience and her car didn't move either. Can someone please explain?

There is one of these at mount Macedon in Victoria

There’s also a hill just like this near Hanging Rock in Mount Macedon

There is a place in backcountry Pennsylvania, USA where this happens as well. They call it Gravity Hill.

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There is one in Scotland called The Electric Brae, and Ireland which I can't remenber the name of.

We have something similar in Slovakia too. Tho I never been there yet.

I could tell what was happening, but what proved it was the way the cameraman was leaning at 2:15

hey...we got one in moncton NB too

Most people already know that Australia is upside down but thank you for the video

Very interesting!

I sat here thinking "what is he on about is looks like it's slightly downhill" and then when the words optical illusion rolled off his tongue it hit me

@fuckoffyoubitchnigga

2 жыл бұрын

it definitely looks downhill, I can't see the illusion at all :(

@icantsee0

2 жыл бұрын

@@fuckoffyoubitchnigga try to do the thing where you blur your vision. People say that helps (didn't help for me tho)

There is one of those in my home town in Vernon, bc

Somebody get that man a life time supply of sun block and flannel

That is a trippy optical illusion

This is the sort of thing flat earthers grab and run with while ignoring the actual facts.

Oh damn, I’ve been by that place quite a few times

there's a similar thing near erin ontario, but there's no road signs or anything, just a quirk that locals know about

we have a magnetic hill in Moncton, NB Canada too

We had these places in Arizona

there is a hill in great britain that’s the same, i think tom scott made a video about it

Is it weird that seeing a car roll uphill hurts my brain as much if not more than time travel paradoxes?

@cr10001

2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

But Why do the plastic and aluminium cars roll the other way?

Very good video.

I swear to god everything in Australia is cursed.

Imagine being that one guy with the flat tire trying to jack his car That guy: AYO WTF