The Crooked Forest is as strange as it is beautiful. Growing in Poland, just outside of Nowe Czarnowo, there’s some 400 weirdly bent trees.
These photographs from Kilian Schönberger reveal the alien trees.
No one is quite sure how – or why – these trees are bent like this. People may have persuaded them to grow this way, using tools and techniques, so the wood from them would be better suited to boat building or furniture but that’s speculation. Fire, flood and other natural events like heavy snowstorms that might have weighed down young trees are also suggested.
The truth is – we haven’t yet solved this riddle.
What do you think caused the Crooked Forest?
In Pure Spirit
What’s the strangest unsolved mystery that you know about today?
Join the conversation