Gravity Hill: Rohnert Park, CA
Growing up in Rohnert Park, you always heard about the infamous "Gravity Hill" off of Petaluma Hill Road. This hill is about a twenty minute drive into the mountains. When you get to the bottom of the hill, you put your car into neutral, and wait.
Back in the 80's there was a nature reserve at the top of the hills which is still there and is now referred to as "The Dark Place." It has since been closed off to the public but it used to be a real hot spot for field trips before the tragedy that took place on Gravity Hill.
I've been going up to Gravity Hill since I was a child. Since I've always been into the supernatural and ghost and shit, my mom would drive me up there and we would park at the bottom of the hill and wait for our car to get pulled to the top.
One beautiful day, a school bus full of children were driving down the hill coming back from a field trip when all of a sudden the breaks locked up and the driver lost control. He drove off the road and down the hill killing everyone in the bus.
So, when you get to the bottom of the hill, you put your car in neutral and all of a sudden your car starts to get pushed...uphill. You usually reach speeds of about 15 MPH which is pretty fast considering you're rolling uphill without using any gas.
They say that if you put baby powder on the back of your car, once you get to the top of the hill, there will be little hand prints in the baby powder from all the little children pushing your car uphill and trying to save you from an untimely death just like theirs.
My friend Sam moved to California when we were in 8th grade. She had never been to gravity hill so one night my aunt drove us up there. She put baby powder on her back bumper to show Sam but she was a bit skeptical. When we got to the top of the hill, my aunt shined a light on the back of the bumper. Not only was there child hand prints, but as soon as we started getting back into the car, we all heard a little kid laugh behind us.
Some people say it's an optical illusion and you are actually going downhill, some people who are too scared to try it, and some people choose to believe the ghost story. But no matter what you choose to believe about it, whenever you go up to Gravity Hill, something gets you to the top every single time.
Back in the 80's there was a nature reserve at the top of the hills which is still there and is now referred to as "The Dark Place." It has since been closed off to the public but it used to be a real hot spot for field trips before the tragedy that took place on Gravity Hill.
I've been going up to Gravity Hill since I was a child. Since I've always been into the supernatural and ghost and shit, my mom would drive me up there and we would park at the bottom of the hill and wait for our car to get pulled to the top.
One beautiful day, a school bus full of children were driving down the hill coming back from a field trip when all of a sudden the breaks locked up and the driver lost control. He drove off the road and down the hill killing everyone in the bus.
So, when you get to the bottom of the hill, you put your car in neutral and all of a sudden your car starts to get pushed...uphill. You usually reach speeds of about 15 MPH which is pretty fast considering you're rolling uphill without using any gas.
They say that if you put baby powder on the back of your car, once you get to the top of the hill, there will be little hand prints in the baby powder from all the little children pushing your car uphill and trying to save you from an untimely death just like theirs.
My friend Sam moved to California when we were in 8th grade. She had never been to gravity hill so one night my aunt drove us up there. She put baby powder on her back bumper to show Sam but she was a bit skeptical. When we got to the top of the hill, my aunt shined a light on the back of the bumper. Not only was there child hand prints, but as soon as we started getting back into the car, we all heard a little kid laugh behind us.
Some people say it's an optical illusion and you are actually going downhill, some people who are too scared to try it, and some people choose to believe the ghost story. But no matter what you choose to believe about it, whenever you go up to Gravity Hill, something gets you to the top every single time.
Haystack Landing: Petaluma, CA
In the late 1800's, a settler named Freeman Parker landed in Petaluma. He built a house on the river bank and it was soon turned into a landing dock for new settlers and served as such and much more until it was finally abandoned in the 1970's. There have always been stories and legends about what really went on there and what legends and stories were actually true. However, there is one story in particular, that even 19 years later, is still being investigated.
In 1995 a group of parapsychology students went to investigate the "hauntings" at haystack landing before its demolition. Upon arrival, Professor Rick Williams, realized he had left some equipment behind and sent one of the students back to get it. When he returned more than an hour later, he walked into the house and everyone had been brutally murdered. Nobody knows what happened that evening and it is still an open case. Read more about it here.
Ten years after the Incident at Haystack Landing, it burned down. The weird thing about it though, is that nobody knows how. Around 1 am on July 1st, 2005, someone had called the fire department to report the building was in flames, but by the time the fire fighters got there, it was already burned to the ground and the fire was completely out as if it had been put out hours earlier.
I never went to Haystack Landing when it was still around because I was 11 when it burned down, so when I was 18, I drove to the property it once stood on with one of my friends. This friend in particular wasn't afraid of anything and he didn't believe in the paranormal so when we showed up and he immediately got freaked out and just kept asking to leave, that's when I started to get even more scared than I already was. Maybe it was the fact that all my adrenaline was already pumping at warp speed, but as soon as we stepped onto the property, I just got filled with a feeling that something didn't want us there. Like there was a huge wall made of bad energy pushing me the other way. We immediately left and I haven't gone back since. But I will say, if it was still around today, I would go back. Hell, maybe I would even go inside just to see what I would find. Or maybe, what would find me.
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