![]() With all this information in hand, I set about to investigate further.Īs it turns out, the concept of a “gravity hill” is not limited to Arkansas. Others attribute it to various other hauntings, ranging from a group of children who died in a crash to a helpful deceased grandmother. Local legends attribute this phenomenon to many supernatural explanations, some of which include a team of high school football players who died in a crash and help “push” cars up the hill. There are plenty of videos to watch, and articles to read, so keep that neutral gear for what God intended: having your car towed. I’ll take this opportunity to reiterate that neither First Security Bank nor I recommend doing this. It goes without saying that stopping your car in the middle of a roadway, putting in neutral to see if it will roll anywhere isn’t necessarily the safest of endeavors. I have to admit when I saw these videos I was taken aback. According to local lore (and many online videos seemingly backing this up), cars that stop and shift into neutral at the intersection of Sulphur Springs Road and highway 49 in Helena will coast backward and up Sulphur Springs Road. And common sense also tells us if we park our car at the base of a hill and put it in neutral, we will stay right where we are, as gravity isn’t in the business of pushing us up hills, but maintaining that invisible leash to keep us at the lowest point and on the ground.īut an Arkansas phenomenon called Gravity Hill seems to defy this basic scientific rule. If you throw a feather off a tall building, the invisible leash of gravity brings that feather back down to the ground. It stands to reason that gravity, the thing that holds us to earth and prevents us from floating into space, works as a sort of invisible leash. Gravity has nothing to do with my penchant for pastries or vintage purses. ![]() I’ve always thought gravitational pull had a lot to do with my obsession with staring at old Victorian houses (once for so long that the owner came out to greet me) and my passion for a well-embroidered purse.īut, alas, no. I always attributed gravitational pull to when I pass by a bakery and the smell of cupcakes makes me forget about my tight-in-the-waist-jeans as I do a U-turn to go press my nose against the glass. Gravity, or gravitational pull, is a force of attraction. It binds vast oceans to this spinning planet, yet allows birds to soar through the air.
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