If You Find A Bent Tree In The Forest, You May Have Just Stumbled Upon A Centuries Old Secret
If You Find A Bent Tree In The Forest, You May Have Just Stumbled Upon A Centuries Old Secret
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.
Threw out y many years. I have seen hundreds of these kinds of trees. I was always told , they were caused by a bad winter. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest .They are very common.
I have 300 acres in Belk Alabama and I have trees like this on my land
Saw one in the South.amazing.
Some thick, braided vines as well, we used them as swings as kids
I know of 2 old trees like this. One in Beech Grove Indiana, and one in McCordsville/Fortville Indiana. I have always wanted to take pics of grandkids sitting on them but never have because they are on private property.
We have what I believe to be a marker tree on our property. White oak about 4 ft at chest high.
Why do they all have the “bump” on the “elbow” of the tree??
From my own observation being around trees, I’ve seen them do odd things once displaced from the original growing direction. I’d say these trees were flexed and pinned down for some reason. Then eventually after many growing seasons the anchoring material broke leaving that nodule that can sometimes be seen at the elbow of each bend.
My father and I use to go out looking for tree’s shaped this way to build the Bow of boats. Nothing works better then a tree like that! They been harvesting bent trees for this reason for thousands of years all across the world
I have a tree like this on my land
The secret was told in the first minute – for navigation.
interesting, my first thought was that they were shaped by early settlers for angled wood to make tools.
have you tried following them?
I’ve found a few…
I got 16 acres I have a bunch of them of all ages and of all heights of bends.
this is one on my land in va. it leads to a cave with markings on the wall
https://youtu.be/YhYDv78hJWA
What’s the secret?? Clickbait bs!!
I have one that does indeed point to my spring. It is approx. ,5 mi. down grade on a terrace above a creek.
Large BENT TREE IN BRIDGEVIEW, ILLINOIS near 72nd HARLEM …. beautiful site, very old! (8-7-2022)
I made some myself a few years ago. And i know some whitch made by nature. Does anyone know the name of the book?
The youtuber The Tree Lab explains how to make arc trees
I’m not sure what I just watched, but I feel like this man is still there trying to capture something on camera.
Get to the point already
https://youtube.com/channel/UC7d2hmW6xRPmHviZWs600CQ
Not many people know that Kenny Rogers had this side hustle.
Don’t follow this rabbit hole. It’s all racist B-S.
I have at least 6 I can think of in my yard and it’s weird because I swear my backyard is a tomb or something because I found the entrance closed off. A person into the native stuff claims there is a redhead giant inside and never move the fossilized blocks of wood that is in the doorway. Educate me if I’m sounding crazy lol
I’ve seen young trees grow this way. I don’t think this is CB true
*"At the root of it all."*
I have a couple trees like that .
Just get to the point ffs
I found one here in Racine Wisconsin by Lake Michigan I don’t think no one ever notice it can’t wait contact someone post pictures its big and beautiful
THIS WAS ALSO DONE BY IMMIGRANTS UP TO 200 YEARS AGO. THEY WOULD USE THESE FOR ROOF JOIST AND SHIP HULL
Well that makes sense to me.
I’ve Ben running the Everglades all my life..was born into a stilt camp called moccasin hammock in the big cypress in part of the Miccosukee Indian reservation in area 3A South the camp is in a head of old tall cypress trees the camp is about 45 years old now and it was original built close to the existing cypress trees threw the years as the trees grew they actually formed around the deck of the camp basically holding it up in the air now…we often used these trees before gps and still often do use these types of cypress trees as land marks for telling people where to go are remembering how to get there myself..but being that these trees are as old as they are I figured for the most part they had gotten struck by lightning at some point and over the course of many years they healed themselves while slowly growing tell healed and begun to grow upwards again was what I’ve always assumed..could also easily be that as a very young tree they had gotten caught under another tree are root are something like that maybe from a storm had covered them at one time forcing them to grow sideways
/around what was there tell they could grow upright again…most of these areas down south with these trees where hardly inhabited at all that many years ago so to assume someone intentionally did it as a land marker just doesn’t make sense but using them as land markers after there already like that definitely does witch I’m sure is how that part of the story originated from…
I found a "tree of heaven" like this in the woods but I doubt it was around when the native americans were in maryland, since the tree doesnt live that long but its a nice natural bench to sit on, I think this was a pioneer tree, the place used to be farmland before the 70’s then they built 3 acre plot houses, most keep wooded sections to grow wild and other native trees like tuliptrees, sweetgums, american sycamores, and hickories quickly took over the area and grew taller , I am guessing some large branch fell on it then it continued to grow upwards
It would have been nifty to have told us how they shaped the trees.
I found a bent tree in Arkansas
On the cider ridge golf course, near green #16, there is a giant old indian trail marker tree on the right side of fairway. You can even see the strap marks on the nose facing downward. So sad these trees are dying off now!
I have tons of them around me along with trees that arch back to the ground and massive growths (all together). There are saplings, trees about 10 years old, and some massive oaks that hundreds of years old. No signs of cords or wire. They called them Indian Bends, but that does not explain the young trees and saplings. Yes, they can be replicated by man except the the young saplings just starting to grow with no cords or wires on them.
Man doing tpose
These trees don’t look old enough to be native american artifacts. They’re mostly 40-60 years old.
I Live in Mid. Tennessee. I Know where there is a Beautiful Huge Tree of this Sort. It’s in-between. Monterey & Livingston TN. Of anyone here is interested?. Sincerely & Confederately Yours. GEN.TYLER
Imagine aliens trying to understand Rugby and football posts 1000 years aftet we are dead… that’s 2hat we are doing here. The trees were probably part of a game/sport they played back then. Or maybe they were thrones/sofas for chiefs.
WHAT IF WE ARE COMPLICATING THINGS AND THESE TREES WHERE THEIR VERSIONS OF A #SOFA, #THRONE, RUGBY OR FOOTBALL POST FOR THEIR VERSIONS OF THOSE #SPORTS…
And, what is the secret ? I don’t understand from the movie.
I don’t think this is the case for all trees because some of the trees are not more than 100 years old. I have seen a lot of trees in Maryland like this and if this is the case how come it’s always the same kind of tree usually? Like a sycamore?
Long Island NY has trees like this, they were what was called loped trees used to mark property boundries.
None of those trees are even 80 years old lol
100 to 150 years ago? To make these in these shapes they would have started working on them when most native Americans were long out of here. Where I live in the North East there are many of these trees. Ever think there might have been a fallen tree resting on the limb its not rocket science!
Or signs of an old ice storm.
In New England Particularly in Vermont and New Natives, often did this to trees and the direction of the split would point towards a fresh water source