wat is with the magnetic hill in New Brunswick?

Question

there is a magnetic hill in New Brunswick and i would like to know how it works? does it really drag your car up the hill?

Answer 1

their is one in (north burlington ontario) as well .I have also read their is one in Oshawa ,ontario, If you go to the bottom and place your car in neutral it drags your car uphil slowly .
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scientifically it is an optical illusion
Sometimes you may find or hear of a mysterious place where objects can apparently roll uphill. This is a remarkably common illusion which is found in numerous locations around the world. Usually it is a stretch of road in a hilly area where the level horizon is obscured. Objects such as trees and walls which normally provide visual clues to the true vertical, may be leaning slightly. This creates an optical illusion making a slight downhill look like an uphill slope. Objects may appear to roll uphill.
Spots where the illusion is especially powerful often become tourist attractions. Tour guides may like to claim that the effect is a mystery or that it is due to magnetic or gravitational irregularities or even that it is a paranormal phenomenon which science can not explain. This is not true of course. Natural irregularities can only be detected with sensitive equipment and cannot account for these places but science can easily explain them as optical illusions.

There are several things which enable us to sense which way is up. The balance mechanism in our inner ears is one system we have, but visual clues are also important and can be overriding. If the horizon cannot be seen or is not level then we may be fooled by objects which we expect to be vertical but which aren't really.
People often overestimate the angle of a slope. If you are standing on a slope of 1 degrees it will seem like a slope of 5 degrees. Because of this effect the anti-gravity illusion can seem stronger than it should be even when you know the cause.

Even when the true cause is understood it can be difficult to believe. If you think there is a magnetic anomaly just use two plumb lines, one made of iron and one of stone. They would hang at different angles if a strong magnetic field was acting horizontally.
However, it is not always easy to demonstrate that a slope which appears to go uphill is really going downhill. The only reliable way of determining the true horizontal is by careful surveying. If a good topographical map of the area is available it may be sufficient to show which way the land is really sloping. The results will confirm the illusion.
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you can also check the info I found on the Oshawa site
http://www.shopinoshawa.com/magnetichill.htm

Answer 2

rx77165 went ot a lot of trouble to give you the wrong(mostly) answer. You could say it is an optical illusion, but it is actually much bigger than that. Now imagine a five mile square area, containing the edge of a mountain range to the west and the ocean to the east with hilly area in the middle, and picture it sitting on a table. In the area between the last hill and the mt. range there is a road that runs down the last hill(east to west) into the mountains. Grab the east side of the table and lift it (your tilting the tectonic plate), this changes the slopes of the hills without any visual cues, thus when you are travelling 'down' the last hill it seems normal to you as you are facing downhill, (at more of an angle than you can detect), BUT, as you start your 'ascent' into the first mountain, you may not have to press on the gas because you are actually only moving almost horizontally and not gaining much if any vertically. So depending on several factors of the local area, the incline will either be diminished or exaggerated.

Answer 3

There is also one in central Florida, too. It is called Spook hill in Lakes Wales, FL. It is also an optical illusion as well explained above.

Answer 4

there is one in I think its in the wisconsin dells. I was there before but I forgot what it was. they even made a broom stand up, but that is an illusion with the rest of it.