Forest in Poland filled with crooked trees, & no one can explain why (travel)

[C C]

https://www.sciencealert.com/crooked-ben...fairy-tale

EXCERPT: It's like a mysterious fairy tale. Deep in the woods of the West Pomerania region of Poland, an entire section of trees bends at sharp angles near their bases, forming an odd and entrancing phenomenon known as 'The Crooked Forest'. Why do the trees bend like this? No one is quite sure.

According to [landscape photographer Kilian] Schoönberger and the region's oral tradition, the trees were planted around the year 1930. During that time, and throughout World War II, Germans controlled the area. To this day, there are rumours that some type of human-made method or technique was used to cause the strange shapes of the trees - although it's not clear what purpose that would have served...

MORE: https://www.sciencealert.com/crooked-ben...fairy-tale

[Syne]

Maybe there were smoke-belching factories that blotted out all but light on the horizon for some time?

[Zinjanthropos]

At least now I have some idea where this guy called home..

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house