Is this not just how every hill in Australia works?

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

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!

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

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.)

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.

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

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.

There is also a spot in Victoria near Hanging Rock.

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 😰

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

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.

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.

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"!

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

This is fantastic. Keep up the good work.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There is also a road like this in Italy.

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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 … 😂❤😂

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

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.

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

Straws lane or something towards Kyneton has this effect too

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

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

There is one of these near Hanging Rock too

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

Good video man

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

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?

That is a trippy optical illusion

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

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my wife and i went there and she has metel in her back, the full length of the spin and after about 5 mins, she had pain in her back

That’s maybe why Captain Cook gave Magnetic Island in QLD it’s name, the ocean wasn’t level? 😂👍🏼

We had these places in Arizona

There is a spot around Prince Henry Drive in Toowoomba.

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

It's funny I heard about this effect happening near Mt Cotton in Queensland on the radio this weekend but apparently the council wrecked it in the 1990s!?

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

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

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

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

Very good video.

Veritasium has some competition on the horizon!!

The spirit level and the phone level app merely demonstrated that they were subject to the identical phenomena as the car. They do not disprove a gravitational anomaly.

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

I love your videos. It looks normal to me.The optical illusion isn't working in me. It goes down in the direction your car is going down. Am I the only one that can see the hills ahead of the car going up?

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?

Great video, i wouldn't call magnetic hill near Black Rock S.A. "remote outback"

There is one of these at mount Macedon in Victoria

I knew it: it's like that pool cue trick

we have a magnetic hill in Moncton, NB Canada too

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

this is the same with the mystery spot in california