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  • @lynniedicker4869
    @lynniedicker4869 4 роки тому +16

    Was born in Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland but moved to London, England when I was very little. Remember so vividly going up to visit family and putting a penny on the road and it rolling up hill - the joy of watching that happen has stayed with me for over 50 years. Ayrshire what a beautiful and wonderful place to behold.

  • @CicidelSol
    @CicidelSol 4 роки тому +20

    Glad she explained it. Wise words, "We can't resist a good oddity." :)

  • @johnkerr1953
    @johnkerr1953 4 роки тому +4

    The next time you go to the Electric brae take a bottle of water & pour it onto the road & you will see the water running upwards, I've tried it & it works.

  • @AtalienaFhang
    @AtalienaFhang 4 роки тому +9

    Another very interesting video! Fun and informative!

  • @lucienmichel2394
    @lucienmichel2394 4 роки тому +12

    We call that in Switzerland a "Lugishtutz", what means a "lying slope", we've got here around a few of them

  • @groeib
    @groeib 4 роки тому +16

    It's great how she raises her hands to show she's not accelerating the car... 1:27

  • @StephenMarmonAuthor
    @StephenMarmonAuthor 4 роки тому +7

    That was great fun. Thnx.

  • @MeAuntieNora
    @MeAuntieNora 4 роки тому +8

    I heard of one where child ghosts are supposed to push your car off train tracks, to prevent you from the same fate of their school bus. There's even a claim that if you put flour on the back of your car you'll find little sets of handprints after! Fun legend tripping that is mostly harmless if people do it safely I think.

    • @bryankelly335
      @bryankelly335 4 роки тому +1

      We have the same "story" here in PA

  • @seaghanobuadhaigh8240
    @seaghanobuadhaigh8240 4 роки тому +6

    Sometimes tourists get propelled even more quickly up the brae when locals end up running into the back of them!

  • @AboveAll658
    @AboveAll658 3 роки тому +3

    She is soooo beautiful!

  • @gardnerwestbound1
    @gardnerwestbound1 4 роки тому +8

    We have "Magnetic Hill" in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada 44P6+C4 Moncton, NB

    • @jlshoem
      @jlshoem 4 роки тому +2

      I looked it up on Google Maps. Looks like an interesting place.

    • @krystalbowen3680
      @krystalbowen3680 3 роки тому

      There is one at Cherry Tree Hill, St Andrew in Barbados

  • @cosmickailyaird4727
    @cosmickailyaird4727 4 роки тому +4

    It's not the only oddity in Ayrshire...

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 2 роки тому

      Yeah,there`s people there with deep pockets and short arms...they`re called Scots lolol

  • @justahilltopguy5418
    @justahilltopguy5418 4 роки тому +5

    There's a little "gravity hill" near my home in south central Washington state.

  • @MatthewBowe
    @MatthewBowe 4 роки тому +10

    Salt Lake City has a Gravity Hill as well

    • @grassroot011
      @grassroot011 4 роки тому +2

      Also near THe Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs., Co.

  • @melchizedekpsj
    @melchizedekpsj 4 роки тому

    Lovely scenery! Thanks for the video!

  • @Custerd1
    @Custerd1 4 роки тому +10

    Be careful when playing in traffic.

  • @dezfernandez
    @dezfernandez 4 роки тому +1

    Same as Magnetic Hill in Los Baños, Philippines

  • @bryankelly335
    @bryankelly335 4 роки тому +3

    There is/was an attraction at Idlewild , PA that used Illusions like this so I kinda already knew what was up .
    *_:P_*

  • @randyphillips2263
    @randyphillips2263 4 роки тому +3

    Long time ago when I was Senior in High School I broke a farm out of the desert that was on a hill. I surveyed the irrigation ditches and fields. After we got the water running my Ag teacher came out to see it. "If I hadn't seen the water running the ditches I would swear you made them going up hill"

  • @walkwalk519
    @walkwalk519 2 роки тому

    Cool! Thanks for showing us this unusual place.

  • @wowwow8302
    @wowwow8302 3 роки тому

    2:32
    There's another optical illusion in the background
    Look at the sea.
    Floating island

  • @JordWylde
    @JordWylde Рік тому

    I understand perspective of it looking up hill, but do you not feel it with gravity (poorly worded) with how you're stood that you can tell it's downhill?

  • @jlshoem
    @jlshoem 4 роки тому +1

    I guessed that it was an visual illusion, but it is still very cool. 8-)

  • @EmilioExploring
    @EmilioExploring 4 роки тому +1

    What an interesting place.

  • @triedntru8049
    @triedntru8049 2 роки тому

    This happens on 22 Mine Road in Logan county WV too! Some people say it’s the ghost of Mamie Thurman, and others say it’s just an optical illusion. But either way, it’s still fun to do/see!

  • @sergeysimonovqwerty
    @sergeysimonovqwerty 4 роки тому

    Чудесная ведущая, професиональная и интересная дикция.

  • @gabrieldee345don5
    @gabrieldee345don5 4 роки тому +2

    What about a level?

  • @thebigcheese1153
    @thebigcheese1153 3 роки тому +1

    IVE BEEN THERE

  • @vibezone9832
    @vibezone9832 5 місяців тому

    Just experienced one in Salalah, Oman. Upward or downward the car kept moving 😮

  • @josephrogers5337
    @josephrogers5337 Рік тому

    I was there last week, and it does look like you are going uphill!!!!

  • @tatechasers2393
    @tatechasers2393 4 роки тому +12

    should of brought a level, you're adorable Bridget

  • @rolfathan
    @rolfathan 4 роки тому

    I've been to one of these in Ramona California. Same sort of illusion.

  • @conorgallagher3960
    @conorgallagher3960 4 роки тому

    Same thing happens at gravity hill in Pittsburgh, but at a much steeper angle

  • @Anonymous551656
    @Anonymous551656 4 роки тому +2

    Locals: "Ach, ye tourist bastards, get off the road!"

  • @MrHarr13
    @MrHarr13 8 місяців тому

    We have a the same in Nova Scotia and we call it the magnetic hill!

  • @vulgarresponse7080
    @vulgarresponse7080 4 роки тому +1

    It's one of them 'iptical ablutions'

  • @squarego1
    @squarego1 2 роки тому +1

    What about that ufo on the horizon at 2:28. :)

  • @robsmithadventures1537
    @robsmithadventures1537 2 роки тому

    She's great

  • @A3Kr0n
    @A3Kr0n 4 роки тому

    I think you did another gravity hill video somewhere else at some other time that I don't remember.

  • @GoAskAliceDrury
    @GoAskAliceDrury 4 роки тому

    See also "Spook Hill" in Florida.

  • @timelliott19
    @timelliott19 4 роки тому

    Spook Hill in Lake Wales, FL

  • @rioangel8397
    @rioangel8397 2 роки тому

    Went up this road with my mom and dad in 1962.

  • @bigbaz2806
    @bigbaz2806 3 роки тому +1

    I get the same thing after 10 pints of beer

  • @jeandannemann
    @jeandannemann 2 роки тому +1

    I believe it’s actually because of the car center of mass. The Action Lab made this experiment in lower scale and the object up a way steeper hill. Just type “ball up hill”, it will be the first video . Here in Brazil we call these hills “ladeira do amendoim” or “peanut hills”

  • @DavidCowan315
    @DavidCowan315 4 роки тому +2

    It may be more than an optical illusion. There are more than four volcanic anomalies in a perfect line with this strange road. Two volcanic plugs, one is Edinburgh Castle rock, and both are the same width as the road. Perhaps it is these unknown energies interacting with the human brain. I have a friend who went to that road and couldn't understand what all of the fuss was about, as she could see the road going up or down in the opposite direction most of the rest of us see it. ua-cam.com/video/R9KwkbfjjSg/v-deo.html

  • @dylaningobernoble9971
    @dylaningobernoble9971 4 роки тому +6

    We have a gravity hill right outside Frederick Maryland! There's a lot of local myths about "civil war ghosts" pushing your car and stuff lol. So you don't have to go all the way to Scotland to experience it

  • @uklivestreaming8748
    @uklivestreaming8748 2 роки тому

    Also she was breaking Road Traffic laws - no sastbelt, operating a camera whilst in charge of a moving vehicle.

  • @martynwhiteside6737
    @martynwhiteside6737 Рік тому

    6 points and £200 fine the minute you touched that camera 😂😂😂

  • @centipede167
    @centipede167 4 роки тому +1

    My dad talked about this once. He said it was an illusion.

    • @joe18425
      @joe18425 3 роки тому

      Your dad was right.

  • @PeterPete
    @PeterPete 3 роки тому

    why are we so fascinated by it? because people want to believe there's more to this life! Unfortunately, the reality is this life is not nice for lots of people!

  • @MrLondonGo
    @MrLondonGo 2 роки тому

    There's one in China called the Sinister Slope, same thing.

  • @frankhovis
    @frankhovis 10 місяців тому

    Even Synthesizer Patel has a song about Electric Brae.

  • @robsmithadventures1537
    @robsmithadventures1537 2 роки тому

    In Ireland we just call them magic roads and said the fairies did it.

  • @emilywong4601
    @emilywong4601 4 роки тому +1

    There's another spot like this in Santa Cruz.

    • @emilywong4601
      @emilywong4601 4 роки тому

      The Magic Spot ua-cam.com/video/Zq5oC_F7nf8/v-deo.html

  • @christopherwatson4113
    @christopherwatson4113 4 роки тому

    Could have just pished on it for the same effect like we do

  • @grassroot011
    @grassroot011 4 роки тому

    why, didn't you or someone, put a spirit level on the surface of the road? A long one,as long as you could find? Or put the long one on a long two by four that is straight. Claims, but prove it.

  • @digitalbookworm5678
    @digitalbookworm5678 4 роки тому

    There was one of these tourist traps in NW Ohio near Port Clinton in the 60s. They went out of business when the magic wore off. 😏

  • @Kane-ib5sn
    @Kane-ib5sn 2 роки тому

    the conventional answer is 'optical illusion'. unless you've thoroughly studied it, it's not something you simply dismiss.

  • @GrahamCampbell-kr2gz
    @GrahamCampbell-kr2gz 3 місяці тому

    No seatbelt!

  • @michauxbours
    @michauxbours 2 місяці тому

    "Love is the search, the wheel, the line \The open road & the steep incline \Things speeding by, the final turn in view /Next: something disastrous, overwhelming & new."
    {-D.Hare}`×..:

  • @thelastofthelemmings6279
    @thelastofthelemmings6279 3 роки тому

    Has anyone actually put a level on the ground?
    If so, for the love of God could someone please share the link so I can get on with my life lol.

  • @kennymcdonald2711
    @kennymcdonald2711 Рік тому

    Is there a charging point in the stone? Asking for a friend!!!

  • @patongbeach123
    @patongbeach123 3 роки тому

    Looks like it goes downhill to me

  • @larrybaird2129
    @larrybaird2129 4 роки тому +3

    WOW! A car that rolls down hill. Imagine that.

  • @russdolby5330
    @russdolby5330 4 місяці тому

    Looks clearly down hill to me how can you not see it 🤦🏼‍♂️

  • @gertie2454
    @gertie2454 4 роки тому +1

    Well thanks for another really cool thing ruined by 'science'!

  • @annewollstein3511
    @annewollstein3511 4 роки тому

    I have a question. Why do we always have American reporters , just asking.

  • @mjh5437
    @mjh5437 2 роки тому

    Bet its a crash hotspot for dummies who stand around in the middle of the road and park cars there too.

  • @annewollstein3511
    @annewollstein3511 4 роки тому

    Mmm very funny playing on a busy road. I just saw a child 🙁

  • @shawnfoxfirth9684
    @shawnfoxfirth9684 4 роки тому +6

    Beautiful girl .. .

  • @therealpixie
    @therealpixie 4 роки тому

    The second Dylan starts hosting again is the second I never blow off another video. Just look at how much your views have dropped to see that I'm not alone in this. Dylan makes not particularly interesting facts fascinating. Just his grin is worth watching a video for. Dylan, if you read this, please consider coming back in front of the camera. I, and thousands of others, will be so grateful.

    • @therealpixie
      @therealpixie 4 роки тому

      @Amy Sternheim I wish, but he stopped hosting a couple of years ago. I miss him so much.

  • @nicolek4076
    @nicolek4076 4 роки тому

    "Here we are in Ayrshire, Scotland". Well, where else did you think Ayrshire, was? At least she pronounced it more or less correctly, more than most Yanks manage with British place names.

    • @pjlum47
      @pjlum47 4 роки тому +3

      Someone's knickers is twisted...some of us Yanks can pronounce more British/Irish names correctly than many Pom's and Limey's pronouncing Stateside places so give it a rest

    • @mutanthifi
      @mutanthifi 4 роки тому +1

      @@pjlum47 maybe, but I've never met one.............

    • @pjlum47
      @pjlum47 4 роки тому

      @@mutanthifi Your loss

    • @gyanw9612
      @gyanw9612 2 роки тому +1

      There are three Ayrshires in the United States

    • @nicolek4076
      @nicolek4076 2 роки тому

      @@gyanw9612 And no-one has ever heard of them ...

  • @Theeirishman74
    @Theeirishman74 Рік тому

    We say brae to in northern ireland

  • @Theeirishman74
    @Theeirishman74 Рік тому

    You can see the cars going downhill ffs 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Pugna-cz6gs
    @Pugna-cz6gs 10 місяців тому +1

    Where did they drag her in from? You’re so annoying.