Spook Hill

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Spook Hill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Spook Hill, looking north
Location in Florida Show map of Florida Location in United States Show map of the United States
Location	North Wales Dr. between Burns Ave. and Spook Hill Elementary Lake Wales, Florida
Coordinates	27°54′43″N 81°34′55″W / 27.912°N 81.582°W / 27.912; -81.582
Built	1960
NRHP reference No.	100003585
Added to NRHP	April 5, 2019

Spook Hill is a gravity hill, an optical illusion in Lake Wales, Florida, where cars appear to roll up the spooky hill.

Spook Hill is located on the Lake Wales Ridge, a geologically significant range of sand and limestone hills, which were islands from two to three million years ago, when sea levels were much higher than at present.

The attraction is adjacent to Spook Hill Elementary School, which adopted Casper the Friendly Ghost as their school mascot. The attraction is also close to the Bok Tower.

Spook Hill received national media attention when an article about it appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on October 25, 1990, and it was featured in a segment on CBS Morning News with Charles Osgood on November 5, 1990.^[1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

• List of gravity hills

Media related to Spook Hill at Wikimedia Commons

• Magnetic Hill International: Spook Hill
• Roadside America – Spook Hill, Lake Wales, Florida
• Tampa Bay Skeptics: Do cars really roll up Spook Hill?
• Spook Hill at About.com
• The myth explained