Spook Hill
Spook Hill | |
Spook Hill, looking north | |
Location in Florida Location in United States | |
| Location | North Wales Dr. between Burns Ave. and Spook Hill Elementary Lake Wales, Florida |
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| Coordinates | 27°54′43″N 81°34′55″W / 27.912°N 81.582°W |
| Built | 1960 |
| NRHP reference No. | 100003585 |
| Added to NRHP | April 5, 2019 |
Spook Hill is a gravity hill, an optical illusion in Lake Wales, Florida, where cars appear to roll up the spooky hill.
Spook Hill is located on the Lake Wales Ridge, a geologically significant range of sand and limestone hills, which were islands from two to three million years ago, when sea levels were much higher than at present.
The attraction is adjacent to Spook Hill Elementary School, which adopted Casper the Friendly Ghost as their school mascot. The attraction is also close to the Bok Tower.
Spook Hill received national media attention when an article about it appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on October 25, 1990, and it was featured in a segment on CBS Morning News with Charles Osgood on November 5, 1990.[1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Tampa Bay Skeptics: Do cars really roll up Spook Hill?
- ^ Calise, Gabrielle (25 October 2021). "Florida's Spook Hill defies gravity. What's the secret of the thrill?". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 17 May 2025.
External links
Media related to Spook Hill at Wikimedia Commons