Altadena, California - Haunted Gravity Hill

I heard there's a hill in the Pasadena/Altadena-area that's haunted. If you're driving down the hill, stop. Put the car in neutral and your car will roll back up the hill.

As the story goes, a girl took her parents' car out for a joyride with some friends, they spun out of control on the hill and now their spirits try to help others who might be in the same predicament.

Or sometimes it's a bus load of school children--their little hand prints are sometimes said to be seen on windows, trunk lids, and on bumpers when powder is spread on them afterwards.

Now whether someone died there or not is debatable, but the actual effect is entirely an optical illusion. Though it appears you're drifting uphill, you're actually heading down it. Still, for a cheap thrill, and in the spirit of Halloween, take your friends there, tell them some cockamamie story about a convertible of drunk-driving cheerleaders colliding with the marching band's bus after the "big game" and watch their eyes bulge as the car jerks up the so-called magnetic hill. [Christine Amarantus, 11/16/2008]