{"id":430,"date":"2009-02-26T22:36:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T03:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/02\/spook_hill\/"},"modified":"2012-01-08T12:26:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T17:26:59","slug":"spook_hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/02\/spook_hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Spook Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the way to <a title=\"Bok Tower and Gardens\" href=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/02\/bok_tower_and_gardens\/\">Bok Tower<\/a> and Gardens, Mom, Carol, and I went on a search for Spook Hill, a mysterious road where gravity does not work correctly and cars can coast up a hill. We saw a lot of signs to Spook Hill, but as we got closer, the signs disappeared and Spook Hill seemed to vanish even though we knew we were within 0.3 miles according to the last sign.<\/p>\n<p>Once we went to Bok Tower we got better directions and found out that it was right next to Spook Hill Elementary School. There is a sign on the street that explains the legend of Spook Hill and then instructs you to drive forward to a white line on the pavement at the bottom of the hill, put the car in neutral, and let the power of Spook Hill push your car back up the hill to the sign again. There was a van in front of us doing it and the effect must have been so surprising that they coasted backwards right into the curb.<\/p>\n<p>Once it was our turn, Carol did a much better job of driving, but even without touching the gas and in neutral, we coasted right up the hill!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/assets_c\/2009\/02\/spook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" src=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/assets_c\/2009\/02\/spook-thumb-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"spook.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the way to Bok Tower and Gardens, Mom, Carol, and I went on a search for Spook Hill, a mysterious road where gravity does not work correctly and cars can coast up a hill. We saw a lot of signs to Spook Hill, but as we got closer, the signs disappeared and Spook &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/02\/spook_hill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spook Hill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}