Case file · High strangeness

Jeju's 'Dokkaebi Road'

On a stretch of road near Jeju City, cars in neutral and spilled water seem to roll uphill; locals named it after the dokkaebi goblins, and it became a tourist stop in the 1980s.

1981 CE · 33.46, 126.49 · status: explained

The sceptical view

A gravity hill: the surrounding slopes hide the horizon, so a gentle downhill looks like an uphill.

Sources

  1. Korean Wikipedia: 도깨비도로
  2. Wikipedia: Gravity hill
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