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.
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.
Wait until you find a 4-inch wide tree that’s been broken and twisted by a squirrel.
Its from older trees falling over and pinning younger trees down until the old tree decomposed. I’ve witnessed this many times in the Ozarks.
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.
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!
Some thick, braided vines as well, we used them as swings as kids
*"At the root of it all."*
I have a couple trees like that .
None of those trees are even 80 years old lol
What town did he grow up? If you don’t mind me asking. I ask because I grew up in the same area
they are stepped on saplings by animals, squirrel, dug, person, deer ect it grows across ground during vigorously vegetation season they know to adapt roots to support
I’m not sure what I just watched, but I feel like this man is still there trying to capture something on camera.
we have a really neat bent tree in the Wisconsin area! very cool!
interesting, my first thought was that they were shaped by early settlers for angled wood to make tools.
have you tried following them?
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
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
Don’t follow this rabbit hole. It’s all racist B-S.
THIS WAS ALSO DONE BY IMMIGRANTS UP TO 200 YEARS AGO. THEY WOULD USE THESE FOR ROOF JOIST AND SHIP HULL
You did ZERO research! None of the trees you shown are over 100 years old! By the time Europeans arrived here there were basically roads the natives used. As they had been walking these areas for 100’s of years ..
Get to the point already
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
Go on and on and on without getting to the point
I know where one of these is
I found a bent tree in Arkansas
I’ve always heard they were Native Americans directional markers.
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?
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!
In England this is a sign the sapling was originally part of a now-vanished hedge, It was woven into the rest of the hedge when malleable, then carried on growing upwards, producing the finished shape.
Not many people know that Kenny Rogers had this side hustle.
Britain started bending trees to speed up boat building ,for Rutter’s etc.
They for seen the naval ships for a hundred years.
Then the iron Age changed wooden ships to steel
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.
Blame it on Bigfoot.
Lots of them in the Appalachian mountains
Just get to the point ffs
I have several here locally in northern indiana that are young trees. Clearly not altered by native people. Curious why they really grow that way.
Radiation deformities from the last reset
I’ve found a few…
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…
Have some in Rensselaer Indiana. A truckstop here was named Trail Tree and had a lot of pictures of nearby trees
We have what I believe to be a marker tree on our property. White oak about 4 ft at chest high.
Or signs of an old ice storm.
Saw one in the South.amazing.
I have a tree like this on my land
It would have been nifty to have told us how they shaped the trees.
Ever seen good crooked hemlock tree. Easily the most unique tree when it comes to bends and twists. I never seen another tree that will literally twist and spiral like those beautiful hemlocks do.
Long Island NY has trees like this, they were what was called loped trees used to mark property boundries.
Man doing tpose
Would have been nice if you would detail how to use them and make them.