One time when I was still in middle school, I spent the night at a friend's house. Her dad suggested we should go up to a place called Gravity Hill. It was only a road and off the road, there was a slaughter house. After we drove up, the dad put his car in neutral and we faced up the hill. All of a sudden, we starting rolling and I was convinced the dad was joking and moving the car. But when I asked him, he pressed the gas and the engine reved but we kept rolling slowly.
After it ended, the dad drove back to where it started. But before he put the car in neutral, we got out and put baby powder all over the back of the car. Then we got back in and started rolling again. Thankfully it was really dark so we knew when another car was coming.
Then after the rolling stopped, we pulled over to the side and got out of the car. We took out flashlights and looked at the back. What I remember seeing was seriously creepy, there were shapes that looked like hand-prints over the powder. We ended up videotaping what we saw and went back home.
A few days later, I decided to look up where we went and the story behind that road was that there had been a school bus crash. Children died and the rumor was that the rolling was the children pushing the car to keep you from the same fate. Creepy Huh?
The area consists of a long windy road through towering foothills, the road is where Gravity Hill is located. When you reach the mines it is made up of caverns, mine shafts, some old houses that now serve as historic and ranger stations, the Rose Hill Cemetery, and the land where once stood the towns of Stewartville, Somersville, West Hartley, Judsonville and Nortonville. All of this lies at the base of Mt. Diablo.
Sarah Norton was the daughter of the founder of Nortonville. She was a bright, caring woman who would become a midwife and the only medic for the area. She assisted in the births of all of the babies born there and planted a mahogany bush for each one, which you can still walk through. Tragically, plagues struck and began killing mostly the babies, children and elderly. Not knowing what was happening, the people saw Sarah as the only common denominator so they linked her to the deaths branding her a witch. They banished her from the area.
As Sarah left, heartbroken and angry, she swore a curse on the towns and rode away in a horse driven carriage. The weather was stormy and lightning and thunder struck, scaring the horses. They tumbled down a steep hillside, killing Sarah Norton. Her spirit never left and has been seen and heard from ever since.
...And that's the history of the White Witch... One of many incredible accounts from the Black Diamond Mines.