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Gravity Hill
This is my own
experience with Gravity Hill in Jackson NJ.
A friend of mine from
work lived in Jackson and I drove her home one night when we got out
of work late. She wanted to show me "Gravity Hill" which was close
to where she lived. On the way to Jackson, she told me a story about
a teenaged girl named Helen who lived with her father. Her mother
had died when she was very young and her father raised her. He was a
truck driver and would sometimes have to leave town for days at a
time. Helen was used to being home alone.
One night a man came to
their door and asked for help. He was having car trouble and needed
a place to stay so Helen's father offered their couch for the night.
The next morning Helen
woke to find her father gone. The stranger tried to calm her and
tell her that he had left to go on a long haul. He told her that her
dad had said he could stay as long as he liked. Helen grew
suspicious and felt the man had hurt, or possibly killed her dad!
She argued with the man and when he charged at her she ran for her
life out of the house. As she passed the hall table, she grabbed her
father's keys to the car in the driveway. Somehow, she started the
car and pulled out onto the road but they lived on a hill and when
she shifted the car into drive to make her escape, she stalled just
as the man burst through the front door and began to cross the lawn.
Helen was terrified and
thought she would be caught for sure when suddenly, the ghost of her
father who had been murdered by the stranger during the night,
pushed her car up the hill. She was able to start the car and escape
the man who killed her father.
During the last part of
the story, we had been driving down some secluded streets without
any streetlights. When she finished telling the tale I had stopped
the car at a stop sign and was waiting for her to tell me which way
to turn. All she said was "Ok, now put the car in neutral and take
your foot off the brake."
I was driving a 1985
Lincoln Town car and it had a digital speedometer. I realized we
were there. We were facing the bottom of the hill! I shifted into
neutral and lifted my foot. The car rolled slowly up the hill -
backwards - and the digital gauge read 1 mile per hour. We rolled
uphill approx. 30 ft and then just hovered there for a few seconds
before I threw the car into drive and found us some streetlights!
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