The mystery of the crooked forest
In 1930 near the town of Gryfino, in West Pomerania in Poland, a very unusual grove of pine trees were planted. For some unknown reason, the trees grew sideways around 3 to 9 feet before they curved back to grow straight upwards.
Theories abound as to what caused the Crooked Forest.
Was it some odd gravitational pull in the area?
Were the trees weighed down by a heavy snowfall early in their growth?
Or did the local farmers who planted the trees purposefully manipulated them so that it would be easier to make the rims for their wooden carts.
No one seems to know for sure.
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