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Poland's Greatest Mystery!!

  • Writer: FYI
    FYI
  • Aug 10, 2020
  • 2 min read

Krzywy las or Crooked Forest found near the town of Gryfino near the Polish and German border. The mysterious forest which was formed in 1930, consists of 400 unusually shaped pine trees that almost look like a letter “J”.

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Poland's Crooked Forest!

Many theories about the Forest’s existence:


One of the hypothesis says that the local foresters moulded the pine trees to make barrels, sleds and ships easier.


Other theory suggests, the German army which invaded Poland in 1939, shaped and bent those trees so intensely that they started to grow in a weird angle.

Our personal favourite states that the trees were distorted by the ufo that landed in this particular area of the forest.


Some say that force of heavy snowfall weighed down the growing trees, due to which trees develop oddly at the base, but this does not answer why other pine trees and various vegetation in the same locality were not affected.

Some theories states, the Northward curves are due to a gravitational pull in this specific region however this theory does not support the basic science law according to which gravity pulls things down and not at a curve.


William Remphrey, a botany specialist from the University of Manitoba, who exposed a genetic metamorphosis due to which a bunch of aspen trees in Canada have curve and sag continuously over growth causing in knotted, coiled trees says that if the reason for Poland’s crooked forest was genetic, the arcs will continue like aspens. But looking at their evenness, something ecological probably instigated these curves.


The only logical theory suggests that the arcs are bent that way by men because the shape of these trees is very constant. It says in the 1930s, residents deployed and moulded the trees to use them as a construction material. The attack during World War II might have interrupted this movement, stopping them from finishing this job and hence leaving this unusual forest the way it is that we can still see till date.


In spite of several theories, the mystery about how and why these trees were bent still remains.



 
 
 

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