Spook Hill Letterbox

Placed by: JeLyBean
15 April 2003
Yates County, Middlesex, NY
Terrain: A breeze - this one's basically a drive-by
Clues: Easy
Setting: Spooky!

If you're a hiking enthusiast, you'll be disappointed by the short walk for
this one. However, if you enjoy the unusual and strange, this is a box for
you.

Spook Hill--situated near a Native American burial ground overlooking
Canandaigua Lake--is so named because cars and bicycles will roll eerily
UPhill here. For some time, theories abounded about this place, whether it
was haunted, a geomagnetic anomaly, or something more sinister. In the
1970s, David Dutton, a scientist at the University of Rochester, undertook
an effort to find out exactly what it was. His conclusion? An illusion.
I, however, happen to know a ghost lives here, and I'll tell you how to
find it.