This is a small area (no more than a square kilometer) of pine forest in the national park of the Kaliningrad region "Curonian Spit", where trees are frozen in bizarre poses. Most interestingly, there is a clear border between twisted trees and ordinary trees. Scientists cannot explain this anomaly
The Dancing Forest is a unique natural phenomenon. The pines in this forest bend in bizarre "poses", as if in a dance. Some trunks are even twisted into a ring. It is believed that if a person crawls through such a ring, making a wish, then it will come true. Another belief says that the places where the trunks form such rings are the boundaries of positive and negative energy. And if you crawl through the ring from the right side, then you will extend life by a year.
The reasons for this anomalous structure of trees have not yet been precisely established. Among the versions - and the effect of the wind, from which trees bend and bend; and damage from insects (butterflies from the family of leaf rollers) attacking young pines 5-20 years old and damaging the shoots; and even “turbulent energy transfer”.
There is also a legend according to which the Prussian prince Barty hunted in these places. While chasing a roe deer, he heard a beautiful melody. Going out into the clearing, the prince saw a young girl playing the lyre. The girl was a Christian, and her name was Predislava. The prince invited her to become his wife, but the girl replied that she would marry only a man of her faith. Bartius agreed to accept Christianity only if the girl proves the power of her Invisible God, shows that he is stronger than the strong trees around. Predislava began to play, the birds fell silent, and the trees began to dance. The prince took off the bracelet from his hand and presented it to his bride. It was on this place many years later that the "dancing" forest grew.
In fact, this section of the forest was planted in 1961. Anomalies have been discovered only in recent years. Several years ago the Dancing Forest hiking trail was opened. In 2008, the work of the excursion route was suspended due to the damage caused to the pines by daily trampling of the soil, as well as constant tactile contact with the bark of the trees. Since 2009, access to the Dancing Forest has been opened again: special decks have been laid along all the paths, and the trees are now protected by fences.
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