In Gryfino, in western Poland, there is a forest that contains an unusual secret. About 400 trees surrounded by normal-growing trees, many leaning 90 degrees at the base, leaning towards the north. The trees were discovered in the 1930s by Gryfino during World War II. We know that it was planted before its capture and destruction during World War II, when residents left the town and took with them clues as to what was deforming these pine trees.

However, there are various theories about how trees become deformed. Of course, there are people who believe the trees were crushed by an alien spacecraft, perhaps an alien civilization that has mastered interstellar travel but not how to park. A slightly more realistic (though still unlikely) scenario is that they were crushed into saplings by tanks during the war and came to light again. This seems unlikely, given that they are surrounded by the vertical trees we are used to.

A natural explanation is that the trees became horizontal saplings, possibly due to a storm or heavy snowfall, and thus took on an unusual shape.

“It looks like a classic gravitational response to me,” he said Washington Post Gary Coleman is an associate professor of horticulture and landscape architecture at the University of Maryland. “When the trunk is horizontal to gravity, the plant has a mechanism that can reorient itself.”

Coleman saw trees like this while working for the U.S. Forest Service after the storm. But there is another explanation that is more likely than natural ones.

It was reported that there were cut and knot marks on the trees; This suggests that humans may have kept them close to the ground during their early years of growth before allowing gravity to work its magic. This may have been a lumber farm where pine trees were bent for use in curved furniture, frames, or barrels, as naturally bent wood is stronger than straight wood that is bent after sawing.

Although man-made twists are likely, we may never know the true explanation. Meanwhile, there’s an even bigger mystery in the bending of trees: Cook pines, no matter where they are in the world, bend toward the equator. Source