In Germany, construction began on a roadway around 1929-1930 between Bremen and Bremerhaven. During that year, at mile marker 239, there were more than 100 accidents on that straight piece of highway. It became known as the Highway of Death.
On September 7, 1930, nine cars wrecked at that exact marker in one day. Survivors mentioned an odd sensation in their stomachs, as if they were "toppling a hill at great speeds", and then their cars were "pulled" suddenly off the road.
Theories include a powerful magnetic current at that location, or possibly even a curse. Sources say that the accidents stopped after the mile marker was extracted from its location...and other sources say the accidents stopped when a box of "small copper things" was buried there.
It's still an interesting phenomenon to think about. That's a lot of accidents occurring at the same location.
Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!
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Could be something beneath there that gets messed up by the way the wind blows and causes all the accidents.
You too, and drive safe!!!
What an interesting story. In the San Antonio, TX area, there's supposedly a set of railroad tracks where your car is "pushed" if you park on them. Of course, everyone says it's not true, but what fun just thinking if it were!
I believe in blessings and curses. Strange how some things and areas sure seem to be cursed. Might want to research the history of the area. You could find out something very interesting that happened there.
I've heard about that road before - really wild, huh?
This is a new one to me. ..
And then, there's Spook Hill, in Lake Wales, Florida. Spook Hill is one of several spots in the U.S. where gravity seems to be defied. Parked cars roll backward up Spook Hill, 50 miles south of Orlando. On a typical Saturday, up to 30 cars an hour line up at the top of the hill for their turn to drive down to the white line and drift back up. Farmers had to stop planting oranges in the area because visitors pulled them off the trees so they could watch them roll uphill. Skateboarders and cyclists also feel the pull of gravity in the wrong direction.
Scientists who deign to investigate sites like Spook Hill usually end up by claiming them to be merely optical illusions.
Source: Johnson, Robert; "Just Who, or What, Makes Cars Roll Up a Slope in Florida?" Wall Street Journal, October 25, 1990.
It is interesting. One would have to wonder about the theories.
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Interesting...like the Devil's Triangle.
Hugs and chocolate,
Shelly
Crazy! Interesting tidbit
That is really odd. I wonder what could have caused so many accidents... :-/
I didn't think cars went fast enough in the 1930s, and they were all built like tanks. Definitely metaphysical!
Strange and spooky!
Hmm...sounds like a mystery novel to me. Found you on the a-z list and hope to follow.
Interesting. I bet it was the copper.
We need Sam and Dean from Supernatural to investigate! Lol
Strange! Kind of gave me goosebumps. I've heard of "blood highways" before, where there seem to be an inordinate number of wrecks, but usually it's because people can't drive--nothing like that!
I've come across certain intersections that have been the scene of many accidents, but nothing quite like this.
I'd put it down to being a bad bend on the brow of a hill and not something supernatural.
This sounds like something out of a Twilight Zone episode, and will probably remain an unsolved mystery.
Julie
Oooh, that's so spooky and interesting. I've heard of other locations like that, too. I wonder what the previous history was to that location?
Sounds like great inspiration for a story.
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