Electric Brae
The Electric Brae or Croy Brae is a mountain in the Scottish Council Area of South Ayrshire . It is on the coast of the Firth of Clyde between the towns of Croy and Dunure . The Scottish word brae means gentle slope.
The mountain became famous for the A719 road , which runs along there and on which cars that are parked with the handbrake off seem to roll slowly uphill. The assumptions to explain this phenomenon , which has become a tourist attraction, were initially to suspect magnetic rocks in the area, which is where the name " Electric Brae" comes from. However, it is an optical illusion - the road leads downhill, but it looks like uphill because of the mountain scenery in the background. Nonetheless, there is still speculation about gravitational anomalies and the like in frontier scientific publications .
Similar phenomena can be seen on the Italian connecting road between the Via dei Laghi and Via Appia Nuova , on the access road to the South Tyrolean town of Montagnaga and on the 3053 road before Butzbach in Hesse .
Coordinates: 55 ° 23 ′ N , 4 ° 45 ′ W