Lots of towns have a place they call "gravity hill," where cars are said to drift uphill rather than downhill. This photo, taken in 1923, shows why the old Arkopolis Gravity Hill from which modern-day Hill Crest gets its name, is truly unique. Henri de la Roux -- or "Ol' Onry" as the local residents used to call him -- was reported in the Arkopolis Times to have cried out, "Somebody get me down from here or a plague of winged beasts shall feed on your firstborns!" No wreckage was ever found, so the car was presumed to have either floated off into space or gotten stuck in a tree somewhere. Records show a number of prominent Hill Crest families fled across the river to live in the luxury of Old Argenta soon after this event, leaving behind those who could not afford to defect north. The irony, of course, is that three years later those families who moved were lost in the tragedy that beset Argenta at the hands of the Owl Parliament. Did the ghost of Ol' Onry finally have his revenge?











