In the west of Poland, not far from the town of Gryfino, there is a mysterious "Crooked Forest", planted in 1930. It is unusual in that trees grow on its territory, outwardly unlike any other.
About 400 trees grow in a 90-degree bend at the base of their trunks. Moreover, all trees are bent towards the north.
Cutting down trees is strictly prohibited here. The crooked forest, which covers an area of 1.8 hectares, today belongs to natural monuments and is protected by the state.
Experts note one more feature: for unknown reasons, the trees do not reach the standard height. The curved pine trees reach a height of about 15 meters, which is not enough for a forest that is more than 80 years old.
Scientists cannot yet unambiguously explain this mysterious phenomenon, but there are many versions about the reasons for the strange growth of pines.
According to one of the assumptions, people deliberately bent tree trunks for the convenience of further making furniture, sledges, boats from them. But local lumberjacks say with confidence that the wood of crooked pines is categorically unsuitable for furniture production.
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Another version calls strong winds the reason for the curvature of the trunks, which sounds completely absurd. The wind had to be not only powerful, but also constant, which would uproot the fragile trees simply without allowing them to grow.
It is also believed that one local breeder specifically wanted to grow a forest with all the trees facing north so that no one could get lost in such a forest.
The fourth version is not widespread. According to her, in the last century, a witch lived in this young forest and he protected her home from prying eyes. Quite by accident, some lumberjacks needed wood and they decided to send for it to the nearest forest. To their surprise, the trunks began to dodge the sharp axes and beat the troublemakers with branches. The lumberjacks fled in horror from the forest, and the trees froze in an unusual "pose" as a warning for those who dare to encroach on the enchanted forest.
It is allowed to enter the reserve only with special passes. "Crooked Forest" begins about 40 kilometers from the checkpoint. Eyewitnesses who have visited this unusual place claim that a strange atmosphere reigns in this forest - you cannot hear the singing of birds and chirping of grasshoppers.
Experts in the field of cosmobiology note that the area in which such twisted trees grow has a negative energy. It is she, in their opinion, that causes changes in the shape and direction of growth of trees. The people, on the contrary, believe that a person who crawls through such a tree will get rid of various diseases.