If You Find A Bent Tree In The Forest, You May Have Just Stumbled Upon A Centuries Old Secret

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There's a tree just like the one on the cover picture, near the end of Grass lake New York up on the ridge that runs along the shore line.
I wonder if that was the marker from the ridge to tell you you're at the end of the lake and then can maneuver down the ridge to to cross around to the other side?

The Signal tree in Cuyahoga valley Chuckery area has a two off set branches use for laying an Ax or other items to warn of the state of the treaty at the time.

"Deformed" seems like an inaccurate description.. maybe uniquely beautiful 💚🤎

Most bent trees aren't old enough to be trail markers. Where I live the forests were cut clean of all trees so there isn't any trees that old within 100 miles

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Red dead redemption has these

But, then again, the tree likely reached this shape odd naturally. Very few were actually formed by "native Americans"! They were NOMADIC people and moved from place-to-place according to game, season, war-fare. They certainly didn't waste time and energy to deform trees to mark a way thru the forests.

This was common practice for ship builders to coax structural shapes in trees.

Down here in. Central. Louisiana

As a kid my. Daddy told me it was the Indians. Done this to trees to mark their trails location

What I have a problem with is;
How do you know or can you confirm the elders were septuagenarian?

I have one of these growing in my front yard here in Illinois. I am really stoked on it. I am excited to see it grow over time, God willing. It’s a red oak and it’s only a couple years old. It did this naturally. I think it has something to do with high phosphorus in the soil or maybe rooting hormone.
I had a lilac bush and a wild hyacinth do this as well when I put too much rooting hormone on it.

We have young trees like these in our Forrest. 5 yrs old

when i was 8 years on this earth i lived on top of wye mountain in arkansas. we had forty acres of land chocked full of old forest. my favorite tree was a tree such as these bent trees in the video. some days it was my horse, others my jet! i spent hours of my childhood playing on and around that old tree. i’m inspired to go there now and see if it’s still standing, 50 years later.

There exists an entire small forest of these in Poland. They were bent to make oxen yokes for farming. When the Second World War came to Poland they were abandoned to begin growing upward again.

Unless the suggestion is that Native Americans emigrated to Poland in the early 20th century, I'm not convinced that trail blazing is the only explanation: cf. Crooked Forest of Krzywy Las.

These trees definitely were not around when the natives lived on the earth were talking about people who lived over thousands of years ago these trees are 100 years old Max

I have found 1 forsure that is I know old enough and 2 that may be but not 100% sure in north central arkansas it's pretty neat to experience or see in person

the tree woudl have to be aboout 400 years old, a 400 year old tree looks old especially deciduous trees these trees i this video arent even 60 years old

How did they bend the trees?

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Um sorry but those trees probably grow like that because my property has about 9 trees that grow beent like that and they are about 11 12 and 13 years old

I knew of two on the same farm located in Garrett County Maryland. they are gone now. Died and rotted away. Buddy of mine use to sit in one for deer hunting.

Wow we have one of those behind our neighborhood. When i was younger we had a tree we called the "L tree" i see why we were so attacked to it cause we had to cross a creek and walk 200 yards in to get there and we went back there everyday. I may go visit it today. I'm glad i ran across this video

So why the hell didn't you show or tell how the Indians shaped the trees. Damn you.

How is that tree approximately? I rest my case

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We had one of these trees on our family lake lot. As a young 12/13 yr old I would sit on it, imagining it to be a horse. We had been told of an old logging trail that passed mid property. The trail could still be made out as no mature trees grew in its path and the path was more level than the rest of the land.. As it happened, the trail passed this tree. It could well be expected the logging trail had been set to follow a much older indigenous trail. Fascinating!

I have a stone axe head that I found inside an ash tree I cut for firewood, I assume it was forgotten about and instead of growing a handle the tree engulfed it. My father was an archaeologist and parks Canada has conference my thoughts

I have to reality check OFTEN on this.

If youre in a forest thats been logged repeatedly since American expansion, and indian removal... Be skeptical

I have seen several of these trees

Our family farm is south of Kalamazoo and we have 2 of these on our property.

Very ingenious

"navigation". You can't convince me they didn't do this just to sit on them.

A bent tree

I was camping on the Muskegon river when I was a kid in the 70s. I asked a old man about the trees that were bent he told me they were markers to tell the Indians where they were at on the river !

ice storm logs deer what hapen to the tree it wanted to live and get sun light before other tree take it from it

I am nearly eighty years old and have lived in wooded forest all my life. I have noticed that under certain conditions a heavy snow will bend down a young hardwood tree for days producing a bend when the top then grows skywards. I

I work in the bush in western Canada and find trees like this in the middle of no where where no man has likely been for a very long time. I see trees knuckled up here and there more often then you'd think. It comes from some form of injury early on in its life. Trees are really resilient they will grow sideways hundreds of feet up a Cliff no problem. We have very steep terrain around here and it's usually a loose rock that has tumbled down the hill that causes injuries on trees. This is a totally diffrent area tho and very cool 👍

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There is currently a large live one in the town of Cedarburg, in Wisconsin, on Horns Corners Road between Sherman Road and Bridge Road on the west side of the street.

Back when they built Wooden Ships they used to grow trees crooked on purpose to match the shape of the Bow. I've seen oddly shaped trees That Grew that way naturally. Or to say it another way, they grew that way as a result of nature.
And yet there are others that get damaged by agricultural equipment such as saplings being cut by brush Hogs resulting in a tree with multiple trunks.
Nature being mysterious is only natural.
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we have one of these
trees on our property in southern Ohio just off of rt. 800, we have around 100 acres there and one of these trees thatsa still in good health..

Caahmoan Maahyuun! Bent trees are result of another tree falling on them when they were saplings. Then as fallen tree rots( decays) and the sapling continues to grow, first parallel to ground, then after a few years, turning perpendicular to ground towards the sun. I have hunted many diff places/many times per year/for 60+ years. Have seen well over 200 bent trees. Haven't seen indigeneous people, and maybe 100 have been near trails( where people walked up to check them out!) Some MIGHT have been altered to mark a trail, but, most are naturally formed, per above info.

How do you get in touch with the people documenting these trees. I have one on my property in the Ozark mountains that is at least 150 years old, but it's not going to last much longer

Is the method to bend the trees similar to bonsai?

These were also bent intentionally by Mariners for boat building.
And there are occasions when a tree will become broken and grow at these angles simply because they reach for the Sun.

I have one in my back yard up on the hill behind my house. I live in the blue ridge mountains.

I think we have one of these on our land. Osage territory in Benton County MO.