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Gravity Hill, South Bend, Indiana

Description: Stephen F. Zmyslo is both the collector and informant in this legend pertaining to a hill near South Bend, Indiana in which the car rolls up backwards when in neutral. He also reports that a ghosts haunts the area and will push automobiles up the hill or steal the gasoline if the driver puts on the brakes.
Origin: 1973-04-20
Source: http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/folklore/id/3938
Collection: Indiana State University Folklore Archives
Subjects: Hills
Gravity
Ghosts
Folklore

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