Can you imagine a car going up a hill in reverse alone? Yeah, spread across some parts of the world, the magical hills have a very intriguing effect among people. For this reason, they ended up becoming tourist spots in some places. Follow this article in its entirety and learn about the gravity defying place.
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Where to find the “magic slopes”?
This phenomenon went viral due to its ability to allow cars to climb a slope by themselves. It is possible to find the so-called “magic slopes” in some places in different countries.
In Portugal, there are at least two of these locations. The best known is located in Braga, at a point on the road towards Sameiro de Bom Jesus do Monte. The other is close to Malveira da Serra, on the N247 road.
Another very famous example is the so-called Magic Mountain, which is located in the Morne Mountains, in County Down, Northern Ireland, near the Sperga Dam. Also, still in Ireland, they can also be found behind Ben Bulburn in County Sligo and near Mahon Falls in the Comera Ranges.
Travelers to Italy can also find an antigravity mountain on a small road near Rome. Countries such as Greece, Germany, Portugal, Romania, the Czech Republic and Scotland also have examples of this mysterious phenomenon.
In addition to these European countries full of magical hills, they also exist in other countries outside Europe. So we can see that Australia has four such locations, Brazil has eight, Canada has 10, and the US has 27.
List of “Magical Mountains” located in Brazil and their coordinates
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Mato Grosso: On the MT-251 road between Cuiabá and Chapada dos Guimarães.
coordinates: 15°22′4,8″S 55°50′42″W -
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais: Rua Professor Otávio Coelho de Magalhães (official name), popularly known as Rua do Amendoim.
coordinates: 19°57′13.86″S 43°54′54.22″W -
São Thomé das Letras, Minas Gerais: Peanut Hill.
coordinates: 21°42′21″S 44°59′0.50″W -
Paraíba: On the BR-110, near Teixeira.
coordinates: 7°12′39″S 37°16′13″W -
Exu, Pernambuco: “Ladeira da Gameleira” on the stretch of federal highway BR-122 that connects Exu to Crato.
coordinates: 7°25′50″S 39°45′17.2″W -
Rio de Janeiro: Location of Belvedere, close to Petrópolis.
coordinates: 22°33′17″S 43°14′10″W -
Large northern river: On the stretch of federal highway BR-226 between Jucurutu and Florânia.
coordinates: 6°6′57.4″S 36°54′27″W -
Santa Catarina: On the SC-110, between Bom Retiro and Urubici.
coordinates: 27°53′36″S 49°34′39″W
Speculations about the cause of the phenomenon
In a relatively obvious way, the names given to these slopes immediately foreshadow the most popular interpretations, often the only ones offered to tourists.
One theory is that the strong magnetic field caused by the ore present at the site is responsible for the strange phenomenon. The fact that magnetism contributed nothing to the observed phenomenon could easily prove that water and balls rubber bands should also not be affected by magnetism, they “rolled” in an apparently opposite direction to the gravity.
Other people also claim that in these places, the Earth's gravity is different, causing that objects, including cars (as in this case), move in the opposite direction to what we consider normal.