[1][2][3] Kalo Dungar magnetic hill is an optical illusion where a vehicle seems to defy the gravity and roll up the slope.

Legend says that when Dattatreya walked on the earth, he stopped at the Kalo Dungar and found a band of starving jackals.

Because of this, for the last four centuries, the priest at the temple has prepared a batch of prasad, cooked rice, that is fed to the jackals after the evening aarti.

[1][2][3] Another, legend has it that there was once a holy man named Lakkh Guru residing at Kala Dungar and worshiping the Lord Dattatreya.

A strange phenomenon was observed at Kalo Dungar, when some visitors noticed that their vehicles would attain speeds over 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph) driving down the hill even with the ignition switched off, a much higher velocity than descending other nearby peaks.