The Crooked Forest () is a
grove of oddly-shaped
Scots pine trees located in the village of
Nowe Czarnowo near the town of
Gryfino,
West Pomerania, in north-western
Poland
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. It is a protected
natural monument of Poland.
This grove of 400 pines was planted in around 1930. Each pine tree bends sharply to the north, just above ground level, then curves back upright after a sideways excursion of one to three meters (3–9 feet). The curved pines are enclosed by a surrounding forest of straight pine trees.
It is generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used to make the trees grow or bend this way, but the method has never been determined, and remains a mystery to this day. It has been speculated that the trees may have been deformed to create naturally curved timber for use in furniture or boat building.
Others surmise that a snowstorm could have bent the
trunks, but there is little evidence of that.
The forest was featured in season 1, episode 4 of ''
The UnXplained'' on the
History
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channel titled "Unnatural Nature" that first aired on 9 August 2019.
The site is open to the public and is a tourist attraction in the region.
See also
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Dancing Forest
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Drunken trees
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Tree shaping
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Wood warping
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References
External links
Polish tourism page for the Crooked Forest{{in lang, pl
Forests of Poland
Gryfino County
Natural monuments of Poland