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

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Trees come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors – but one of their few unifying characteristics is that they stand tall, reaching up toward the sky. If you look for long enough, though, you’ll eventually come across trees with crooked trunks and weird kinks. And if you find one of these, then you may have chanced upon a long-forgotten secret.

Dennis Downes grew up close to Lake Michigan, on the border of Illinois and Wisconsin. With a growing love of nature, he spent his childhood playing in the forests near his home. And here there were trees quite unlike any of the flora surrounding them.

These trees were truly striking in their appearance. A few feet off the forest floor they would each feature a kink in the trunk – a sharp right angle, so that the bole ran parallel with the ground beneath. There would then be another bend a few feet on, this time turning skywards once more. It was an odd sight indeed, and these trees stood out starkly from the others around them.

Could it be possible that the trees were deformed by nature? Perhaps the elements had distorted the trees as saplings, contorting them into the shapes in which they then remained for their entire lives. Most people have the same feeling, though: such deformities simply can’t be natural.

Downes, for his part, was told something as a child that confirmed this notion that man had played a part in shaping the trees in this way. Specifically, it was said that Native Americans had created the trees thus to help navigate their way through the woods.

And these stories stuck with Downes into his adult life. He wanted to know more. In his early twenties, then, he started looking for evidence to back up the tales that he had heard while growing up. What’s more, before long he began to unearth evidence regarding what had really been going on.

Crucially, Downes came across records made by geologist Raymond Janssen. Now a painter and sculptor, Downes himself spoke to Atlas Obscura in January 2016. He told the website, “I was determined to go everywhere he went.” So it was that he followed in the footsteps of Janssen.

Downes would actually follow Janssen’s work for the next four decades. While working in the 1930s and ’40s in Illinois, the geologist had also been intrigued by the strange trees. In fact, his fascination with them led him to study them across 13 states. Over the course of his research, he would, furthermore, set out guidelines on what exactly was unique about the curios.

Janssen would in fact write four papers based on his research on the subject. In one he stated, “The casual observer views them merely as deformed freaks. But careful observation and comparison of the nature of the deformities indicate that these trees did not acquire their strange shapes simply by accident.”


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