2006-12-07 23:07:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Travel (General) ➔ Other - Destinations
Are you sure it wasn't an optical illusion?
Trees or other rock formations that stick up at an angle may give the impression that the car is facing up a slope when really it is sloping downhill. If you are still in Amman, go back there with a plumb line (a weight on a string which will show the true vertical. Don't be distracted by angled surroundings)
2006-12-07 23:18:53 · answer #1 · answered by wizebloke 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No and Ive been to Amman several times. I know of a similar phenomenon in Scotland and they call it 'The Electric Bray'
http://www.perceptionweb.com/perc0598/editorial.html
2006-12-07 23:15:11 · answer #2 · answered by Daddybear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard of a similar phenomenon in India. In Ladakh.
I have experienced something like it near Pune in Mahrashtra near Bombay too. At a point on the highway where the road is really flat I have to really step on it or my car just slows down to a crawl!!
2006-12-07 23:33:23 · answer #3 · answered by workit4u 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadly, it's an optical illusion, not an all-out assault on the laws of physics as we know them. Still very cool though.
2006-12-07 23:27:40 · answer #4 · answered by barney 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't seen that particular hill, but dollars to doughnuts, if it really exists, it's an optical illusion.
2006-12-07 23:18:57 · answer #5 · answered by Gee Wye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ghost car.
Is there a big magnet on top of the hill?
2006-12-07 23:10:05 · answer #6 · answered by ROBSTER 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saw it on TV... the mystery was still unsolved...amazing...
2006-12-07 23:46:38 · answer #7 · answered by ozzy chik... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i haven't but that sounds so cool. do you know why it does that?
2006-12-07 23:09:27 · answer #8 · answered by cami 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋