Causes of a drunken forest. Curonian Spit: the mystery of the “drunk forest” (8 photos)
Anomalous zone, having heard such a definition in relation to a particular place, immediately comes an association with an extremely dangerous place.
By passing through the ring of this tree, you can increase your lifespan by 365 days.
Often, this is a traditional opinion about a location where, due to some extraordinary circumstances, the structural threads of space have undergone distortion, subjecting matter to destruction.
It is difficult to say how true this definition is, since this is just our description of those phenomena that science cannot currently explain. And one of these places, where it was as if demons were frolicking, is here, in Russia.
Russia is a huge country stretching from west to east for almost ten thousand kilometers, and from north to south for four thousand. The total area of our country is more than seventeen million square kilometers, which gives Russia the right to be called the largest country in the world.
In this huge area you can find various places, from popular, crowded, heavily visited by tourists, to quiet and secluded little-explored “bear corners”. Some of them evoke positive feelings and fascinate with their beauty, while others evoke sadness, reflection and nostalgia for the past.
Third places frighten and attract with their unknownness and... And if a list of anomalous natural zones exists, then one of the places in it rightfully belongs to the wooded area in the westernmost point of our country - the Kaliningrad region.
Anomaly of the Curonian Spit, dancing forest.
The Curonian Spit is a long and narrow piece of land with sandy soil, 100 kilometers long. Part of the Curonian Spit belongs to Lithuania, part of the Kaliningrad region. In order to preserve this unique natural monument with rich plant and animal life, the Russian part of the Curonian Spit has been given the status of a national park.
Thousands of tourists visit this place every year to experience the outlandish places of the Curonian Spit and see with their own eyes the mysticism of this anomalous place. No, there are no ghosts or werewolves there, and ghosts do not scare people, but the trees growing here look like a fairy-tale interior about lost time.
At the thirty-seventh kilometer of the spit, there is a mysterious “dancing forest”. These trees were planted in the mid-twentieth century to strengthen the soil layer. During this time, the seedlings turned into large tall pines, but they curved so intricately that the forest is very popular among guests and local residents.
Mutations are a common occurrence in the anomalous zone
The trunks of all pine trees are bent in the most incomprehensible way: they bend in waves, curl in spirals, form circles, as if they are actually participating in a mystical dance. When entering the forest, it seems that there is nothing unusual here, the trees grow quite normally, but as you move deeper, the scene of the anomalous dance plays out more and more bizarrely.
First, isolated, twisted trees appear, then more and more of them appear, increasing the sense of exotic spectacle. At the epicenter, with trees frozen in unimaginable poses, a strange silence reigns.
There are no birds singing here and no animals are visible at all. Some people experience an unexplained headache, while others experience a surge of energy. What kind of anomalous place is this, maybe there is a kingdom of mystical entities here?
Versions of the appearance of the anomalous zone.
For many years now, scientists have been trying to find the cause of this natural anomaly. There are several explanations for the phenomenon - biological reasons, such as damage to the trunks of young trees by butterfly larvae or exposure to strong winds. Although in this case it is not clear why butterflies and winds affected only one small part of the forest, while the trees in the neighborhood look quite normal.
Another version suggests the presence of strong energy in this place, of unknown origin, supposedly it makes the trees bend and affects people, worsening the well-being of some and causing a surge of strength in others.
Some psychics put forward a paranormal version about the presence of a certain portal to here. It is impossible to establish whether this is actually true, but locals tell a legend that the crooked pines are young witches who gathered for a Sabbath and for some magical reason turned into trees during their magical dance.
Another theory explains the forest anomaly by the impact on the soil of chemicals with which the Germans poisoned these places while the gliding school was located here. Of course, we did not ignore the theory of the involvement of aliens and the presence of strong cosmic energy in this part of the forest.
However, none of the versions has received one hundred percent confirmation; to this day, the reason for the emergence of such a bizarre zone in an ordinary forest remains a deep mystery.
Meanwhile, the unusual nature of this forest attracts very close attention from lovers of paranormal phenomena. This place is visited by thousands of tourists, everyone wants to see the anomaly up close and personally touch the secret of the mysterious trees.
Human psychology is interesting; as soon as someone started a rumor that if you climb through a tree twisted into a ring, you can get an extra year of life, many trees immediately acquired severe damage to the bark. Even though barriers have been placed near the most interesting specimens, and a path in the form of wooden walkways has been laid through the forest, the forest continues to rapidly approach its death.
Unfortunately, many tourists, like , pay little attention to the warning signs, and constantly strive to leave the trail, trampling the soil and harming the trees. Scientists are sounding the alarm and warning that if this continues, then in two years only memories and photographs will remain of the unique dancing forest.
In addition to the mysterious forest on the Curonian Spit, you can go through several other tourist routes. Visit the ornithological reserve, the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh, Lake Swan, famous for its abundance of waterfowl.
Here you can have a wonderful rest on Lake Chaika, visit the heights of Efa from the observation deck which offers an amazing view of the diversity of the natural landscape of an amazingly beautiful place in our country - the Curonian Spit. But remember... there is a strange place nearby, an anomalous zone of unknown origin.
For the trunks twisted into loops, visiting tourists gave the forest an offensive name. Even on the Curonian Spit in the Kaliningrad region, a similar anomaly was called the dancing forest, while the Ryazan pines were nicknamed nothing more than drunken ones. Apparently, not least because a wealthy city dweller is unlikely to discover the Drunken Forest without a guide. Ryazan local historian Andrey Gavrilov knows the right way to the place: we leave Shilovo in the direction of Kasimov, drive through Borok, Inyakino, Seltso-Sergievka and turn left at the sign to Dubrovka, on the outskirts of which we turn south. The road cuts through a forest area, on the right hand of which an amazing picture appears. The pines, as if cut down by their trunks, spread along the ground, bend into an arc and, as if on command, one and a half meters from the surface, rush upward.
Gavrilov said that this planting appeared here not so long ago - pine and birch trees were planted 50 years ago. The forest became drunk in three areas, and, according to the local historian, the locals came up with the simplest and most popular explanation for this - the incredible force of the whirlwind of 1971. But why the hurricane bent and did not break the unfortunate trees, the villagers remain silent. The capital's paranormal seekers also found out about the wonderful forest. Gavrilov remembers how the Moscow guests unsheathed the equipment and busily took out an electronic compass. The exhaustion, as expected from TV people, was another sensation - as if soberly assessing the mysteries of the Drunken Forest, visiting psychics ordered to clean the energy of this dead place, because supposedly here both the equipment and the head refuse to work. Having collected the cream of history into a hype story, the capital's journalists were not one step closer to solving the mystery.
Meanwhile, the forest continues its curved growth, as if not noticing the arrival of the messengers for sensations. But such a forest would not have gone unnoticed two thousand years ago. In those days, the Ryazan land was inhabited by pagan tribes of Finno-Ugric peoples. It was they who left us a legacy of enduring names of rivers and lakes, and today we pronounce Oka, Pra, Ermish, Moksha, Unzha like a spell, without understanding a single word. These peoples carried on their conversation with the forest, hanging ribbon-knots on the branches of centuries-old birch trees. Today local historian Gavrilov speaks for the ancient Finno-Ugric peoples.
The tree trunks in the Drunken Forest bend under the influence of well-known reasons - you and I know that Bura Yaga galloped in it, - the forest spirit specialist, head of the Shilovsky ethnocultural center “Zaryana” smiles slyly.
In the Ryazan epic, Bura Yaga (not to be confused with Baba Yaga) was preserved as an evil and extremely dangerous old woman who spread death by mercilessly devouring the unfortunate alive. She appeared on a fire-breathing horse, whose jumps generated a fiery whirlwind. They say that there is a direct connection between the words “Bura” and “storm”.
The ancient inhabitant of Praryazan region, according to the historian Darkevich, was afraid of the forest and cut down whenever possible, clearing bright clearings in place of dull thickets. They said that in a birch forest it is good to have fun, in a pine forest it is good to pray, and in a spruce forest it is good to hang yourself. The forest provided people with firewood and building materials, but at the same time it was fraught with many dangers. The Slavs attributed witchcraft powers to the forest: they say, the Nightingale the Robber hid in it, wolves prowled, and a clubfoot ruled. The Slavs believed that hostile forces were hiding in the dense forests. They imagined something completely unkind in the thickets, among the uprooted sparkling roots. The historian Vasily Klyuchevsky argued that the Russian man “never loved his forest”: “Unaccountable timidity took possession of him when he entered its gloomy canopy. The sleepy, dense silence of the forest frightened him; in the dull, silent noise of its centuries-old peaks one could sense something ominous; the minute-by-minute expectation of an unexpected, unforeseen danger strained my nerves and excited my imagination. And the ancient Russian man populated the forest with all kinds of fears. The forest is the dark kingdom of the one-eyed Leshy, an evil mischievous spirit who loves to fool around with a traveler who wanders into his domain.”
And only skilled hunters, lumberjacks and charcoal burners knew the approach to the forest. They lived in the forest, walked in the forest: the hostile wilderness turned into a living, complex organism for knowledgeable people. The centuries-long war ended with the victory of people with a clear advantage. It has been proven that during the times of Kievan Rus, the flood meadows of the Oka were covered with impenetrable oak groves, in the place of which today there is an endless field. You can see it all the way from Ryazan to Polyany. The forest was cut down mercilessly: pine for huts, birch for firewood, linden for bast and spoons, oak for furniture, wood was burned into ash - potash, and tar was distilled from butts, which in the era before the discovery of oil served as the ancestor of machine oil. Tar was used to lubricate cart wheel hubs, rub leather boots, and anoint wounds. In the modern age of fine chemistry and synthetic medicines, traditional medicine still penetrates into official medicine - foul-smelling tar gives a special aroma to Vishnevsky’s ointment. One way or another, tar and potash completed the process of total deforestation. In the 20th century, a grandiose project to straighten the Pra River appeared: it was proposed to dig a single canal for the purpose of hassle-free rafting of wood. And if this plan had been implemented, the amazing river with water the color of strong brewed tea would have been destroyed forever. After many centuries of attacks and persecution, the Ryazan forest has noticeably thinned out and become younger. In 1388, Metropolitan Pimen described the area in the west of the Ryazan region as a deserted forest, where “there are many animals - moose, wolves, bears, swans, beavers.” In their place today there are completely plowed fields.
Modern science has not ignored the drunken forest. Geographers from the Ryazan State University named after Yesenin began to think and came closer to solving the mystery of the Shilov crooked forest. To understand the essence of the phenomenon, you need to get to know the pine tree better. Pine does not hide its age, and there is no need to saw it for this. It is enough to count the number of whorls, that is, places on the trunk from which branches grow together in all directions. Every year, a pine tree grows a straight section of trunk with a whorl of branches at the top. If you have an artificial “Christmas tree” at home, you can also theoretically calculate its age - it is equal to the total number of levels of branches. As a rule, there are from four to seven of them. True, an artificial Christmas tree has all the spans on the trunk of the same length, which, of course, does not happen in nature. In the natural environment, the length of each section of the trunk between the branches is different and strictly depends on the quality of the conditions of a particular year.
So, taking a closer look at the pines of the crooked forest, specialists from the Department of Physical Geography of the Russian State University noticed that from a height of two and a half meters, the bent trunks of the pine trees straighten together, producing a series of thirty-five whorls. From this, scientists conclude that from about 1980, a period of sobriety began in the life of the Drunken Forest. The lower curved part of the trunk contains a record of five or six unusual years in the life of the forest, when an incredible force forced the young trees to grow with their tops to the west. Another fact also seemed suspicious: the oldest trees in the crooked forest have healthy, regular, straight trunks. Does this mean that the disaster affected only young trees under five years old? This is precisely the suspicion that scientists voice. Geographers brought up climate data from the late 1970s and the results of geological drilling in the Dubrovka area. And then the doubts disappeared. Several years before the Moscow Olympics, the weather created several abnormally wet years, alternating snowy winters with rainy summers. The drunken forest at that time was a young planting of pines with short roots that were not able to withstand the elements. Under the feet of the pines there is a thick layer of sand, and under it there are clays impenetrable to water. A series of wet years saturated the sand with water, and at one point the sliding began. A patch of forest the size of a football field began to move and began to slowly slide, taking breaks during the dry season. The trunks of young pines leaned to the west. The process was repeated several times. During short periods of rest, the tops of the pine trees managed to point the trunk upward. This is how, according to scientists, the Drunken Forest arose.
The drunken forest is today considered as a contender for inclusion in the list of natural heritage sites of the Ryazan region with the status of a natural monument. Lumberjacks are not particularly keen on twisting trunks, from which they cannot lay down a hut or cut a slab. True, this forest can simply be cut down, and a new one, as straight as possible, can be planted in the clearing. That is why scientists are concerned with the issue of protecting the bent pine forest, whose crooked trunks captured information about climate change in the 20th century. If the mysterious forest is given the status of a natural monument, then there will certainly be no need to worry that the Drunken Forest on Shilovskaya Land will ever end up as firewood.
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When constructing buildings and structures, roads, and pipelines, you should pay attention to the presence of dead wood, as this indicates soil deformation. The appearance of tree tilt in permafrost zones indicates the beginning of its degradation [ ] . In the late and early 21st century, patches of drunken forest appeared, particularly in parts of Siberia and Alaska.
Sometimes trees die as a result of permafrost degradation. The trees of the drunken forest, as a rule, are curved, since when the soil slides, the trunks bend, and the tops become vertical with further growth. In dendrochronology, when studying tree rings, it is possible to determine when the tree tilted and, consequently, the degradation of permafrost began.
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- Ned Rozell.(English) . Alaska Science Forum. en: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community (September 21, 1995). Retrieved November 11, 2011. .
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An excerpt characterizing the Drunken Forest
– Don’t talk to me like that: I’m not worth it! – Natasha screamed and wanted to leave the room, but Pierre held her hand. He knew he needed to tell her something else. But when he said this, he was surprised at his own words.“Stop it, stop it, your whole life is ahead of you,” he told her.
- For me? No! “Everything is lost for me,” she said with shame and self-humiliation.
- Everything is lost? - he repeated. “If I were not me, but the most beautiful, smartest and best person in the world, and were free, I would be on my knees right now asking for your hand and love.”
For the first time after many days, Natasha cried with tears of gratitude and tenderness and, looking at Pierre, left the room.
Pierre, too, almost ran out into the hall after her, holding back the tears of tenderness and happiness that were choking his throat, without getting into his sleeves, he put on his fur coat and sat down in the sleigh.
- Now where do you want to go? - asked the coachman.
"Where? Pierre asked himself. Where can you go now? Is it really to the club or guests? All people seemed so pitiful, so poor in comparison with the feeling of tenderness and love that he experienced; in comparison with the softened, grateful look with which she looked at him the last time because of her tears.
“Home,” said Pierre, despite the ten degrees of frost, opening his bear coat on his wide, joyfully breathing chest.
It was frosty and clear. Above the dirty, dim streets, above the black roofs, there was a dark, starry sky. Pierre, just looking at the sky, did not feel the offensive baseness of everything earthly in comparison with the height at which his soul was located. Upon entering Arbat Square, a huge expanse of starry dark sky opened up to Pierre’s eyes. Almost in the middle of this sky above Prechistensky Boulevard, surrounded and sprinkled on all sides with stars, but differing from everyone else in its proximity to the earth, white light, and long, raised tail, stood a huge bright comet of 1812, the same comet that foreshadowed as they said, all sorts of horrors and the end of the world. But in Pierre this bright star with a long radiant tail did not arouse any terrible feeling. Opposite Pierre, joyfully, eyes wet with tears, looked at this bright star, which, as if, with inexpressible speed, flying immeasurable spaces along a parabolic line, suddenly, like an arrow pierced into the ground, stuck here in one place chosen by it, in the black sky, and stopped, energetically raising her tail up, glowing and playing with her white light between countless other twinkling stars. It seemed to Pierre that this star fully corresponded to what was in his soul, which had blossomed towards a new life, softened and encouraged.
From the end of 1811, increased armament and concentration of forces in Western Europe began, and in 1812 these forces - millions of people (including those who transported and fed the army) moved from West to East, to the borders of Russia, to which in the same way since 1811 year, Russian forces were gathering. On June 12, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began, that is, an event contrary to human reason and all human nature took place. Millions of people committed each other, against each other, such countless atrocities, deceptions, betrayals, thefts, forgeries and the issuance of false banknotes, robberies, arson and murders, which for centuries will not be collected by the chronicle of all the courts of the world and for which, during this period of time, people those who committed them did not look at them as crimes.
For the trunks twisted into loops, visiting tourists gave the forest an offensive name. Even on the Curonian Spit in the Kaliningrad region, a similar anomaly was called the dancing forest, while the Ryazan pines were nicknamed nothing more than drunken ones. Apparently, not least because a wealthy city dweller is unlikely to discover the Drunken Forest without a guide. Ryazan local historian Andrey Gavrilov knows the right way to the place: we leave Shilovo in the direction of Kasimov, drive through Borok, Inyakino, Seltso-Sergievka and turn left at the sign to Dubrovka, on the outskirts of which we turn south. The road cuts through a forest area, on the right hand of which an amazing picture appears. The pines, as if cut down by their trunks, spread along the ground, bend into an arc and, as if on command, one and a half meters from the surface, rush upward.
Gavrilov said that this planting appeared here not so long ago - pine and birch trees were planted 50 years ago. The forest became drunk in three areas, and, according to the local historian, the locals came up with the simplest and most popular explanation for this - the incredible force of the whirlwind of 1971. But why the hurricane bent and did not break the unfortunate trees, the villagers remain silent. The capital's paranormal seekers also found out about the wonderful forest. Gavrilov remembers how the Moscow guests unsheathed the equipment and busily took out an electronic compass. The exhaustion, as expected from TV people, was another sensation - as if soberly assessing the mysteries of the Drunken Forest, visiting psychics ordered to clean the energy of this dead place, because supposedly here both the equipment and the head refuse to work. Having collected the cream of history into a hype story, the capital's journalists were not one step closer to solving the mystery.
Meanwhile, the forest continues its curved growth, as if not noticing the arrival of the messengers for sensations. But such a forest would not have gone unnoticed two thousand years ago. In those days, the Ryazan land was inhabited by pagan tribes of Finno-Ugric peoples. It was they who left us a legacy of enduring names of rivers and lakes, and today we pronounce Oka, Pra, Ermish, Moksha, Unzha like a spell, without understanding a single word. These peoples carried on their conversation with the forest, hanging ribbon-knots on the branches of centuries-old birch trees. Today local historian Gavrilov speaks for the ancient Finno-Ugric peoples.
“The tree trunks in the Drunken Forest bend under the influence of well-known reasons - you and I know that Bura Yaga galloped in it,” the forest spirit specialist, the leader, smiles slyly.
In the Ryazan epic, Bura Yaga (not to be confused with Baba Yaga) was preserved as an evil and extremely dangerous old woman who spread death by mercilessly devouring the unfortunate alive. She appeared on a fire-breathing horse, whose jumps generated a fiery whirlwind. They say that there is a direct connection between the words “Bura” and “storm”.
The ancient inhabitant of Praryazan region, according to the historian Darkevich, was afraid of the forest and cut down whenever possible, clearing bright clearings in place of dull thickets. They said that in a birch forest it is good to have fun, in a pine forest it is good to pray, and in a spruce forest it is good to hang yourself. The forest provided people with firewood and building materials, but at the same time it was fraught with many dangers. The Slavs attributed witchcraft powers to the forest: they say, the Nightingale the Robber hid in it, wolves prowled, and a clubfoot ruled. The Slavs believed that hostile forces were hiding in the dense forests. They imagined something completely unkind in the thickets, among the uprooted sparkling roots. The historian Vasily Klyuchevsky argued that the Russian man “never loved his forest”: “Unaccountable timidity took possession of him when he entered its gloomy canopy. The sleepy, dense silence of the forest frightened him; in the dull, silent noise of its centuries-old peaks one could sense something ominous; the minute-by-minute expectation of an unexpected, unforeseen danger strained my nerves and excited my imagination. And the ancient Russian man populated the forest with all kinds of fears. The forest is the dark kingdom of the one-eyed Leshy, an evil mischievous spirit who loves to fool around with a traveler who wanders into his domain.”
And only skilled hunters, lumberjacks and charcoal burners knew the approach to the forest. They lived in the forest, walked in the forest: the hostile wilderness turned into a living, complex organism for knowledgeable people. The centuries-long war ended with the victory of people with a clear advantage. It has been proven that during the times of Kievan Rus, the flood meadows of the Oka were covered with impenetrable oak groves, in the place of which today there is an endless field. You can see it all the way from Ryazan to Polyany. The forest was cut down mercilessly: pine for huts, birch for firewood, linden for bast and spoons, oak for furniture, wood was burned into ash - potash, and tar was distilled from butts, which in the era before the discovery of oil served as the ancestor of machine oil. Tar was used to lubricate cart wheel hubs, rub leather boots, and anoint wounds. In the modern age of fine chemistry and synthetic medicines, traditional medicine still penetrates into official medicine - foul-smelling tar gives a special aroma to Vishnevsky’s ointment. One way or another, tar and potash completed the process of total deforestation. In the 20th century, a grandiose project to straighten the Pra River appeared: it was proposed to dig a single canal for the purpose of hassle-free rafting of wood. And if this plan had been implemented, the amazing river with water the color of strong brewed tea would have been destroyed forever. After many centuries of attacks and persecution, the Ryazan forest has noticeably thinned out and become younger. In 1388, Metropolitan Pimen described the area in the west of the Ryazan region as a deserted forest, where “there are many animals - moose, wolves, bears, swans, beavers.” In their place today there are completely plowed fields.
Modern science has not ignored the drunken forest. Geographers from the Ryazan State University named after Yesenin began to think and came closer to solving the mystery of the Shilov crooked forest. To understand the essence of the phenomenon, you need to get to know the pine tree better. Pine does not hide its age, and there is no need to saw it for this. It is enough to count the number of whorls, that is, places on the trunk from which branches grow together in all directions. Every year, a pine tree grows a straight section of trunk with a whorl of branches at the top. If you have an artificial “Christmas tree” at home, you can also theoretically calculate its age - it is equal to the total number of levels of branches. As a rule, there are from four to seven of them. True, an artificial Christmas tree has all the spans on the trunk of the same length, which, of course, does not happen in nature. In the natural environment, the length of each section of the trunk between the branches is different and strictly depends on the quality of the conditions of a particular year.
So, taking a closer look at the pines of the crooked forest, specialists from the Department of Physical Geography of the Russian State University noticed that from a height of two and a half meters, the bent trunks of the pine trees straighten together, producing a series of thirty-five whorls. From this, scientists conclude that from about 1980, a period of sobriety began in the life of the Drunken Forest. The lower curved part of the trunk contains a record of five or six unusual years in the life of the forest, when an incredible force forced the young trees to grow with their tops to the west. Another fact also seemed suspicious: the oldest trees in the crooked forest have healthy, regular, straight trunks. Does this mean that the disaster affected only young trees under five years old? This is precisely the suspicion that scientists voice. Geographers brought up climate data from the late 1970s and the results of geological drilling in the Dubrovka area. And then the doubts disappeared. Several years before the Moscow Olympics, the weather created several abnormally wet years, alternating snowy winters with rainy summers. The drunken forest at that time was a young planting of pines with short roots that were not able to withstand the elements. Under the feet of the pines there is a thick layer of sand, and under it there are clays impenetrable to water. A series of wet years saturated the sand with water, and at one point the sliding began. A patch of forest the size of a football field began to move and began to slowly slide, taking breaks during the dry season. The trunks of young pines leaned to the west. The process was repeated several times. During short periods of rest, the tops of the pine trees managed to point the trunk upward. This is how, according to scientists, the Drunken Forest arose.
The drunken forest is today considered as a contender for inclusion in the list of natural heritage sites of the Ryazan region with the status of a natural monument. Lumberjacks are not particularly keen on twisting trunks, from which they cannot lay down a hut or cut a slab. True, this forest can simply be cut down, and a new one, as straight as possible, can be planted in the clearing. That is why scientists are concerned with the issue of protecting the bent pine forest, whose crooked trunks captured information about climate change in the 20th century. If the mysterious forest is given the status of a natural monument, then there will certainly be no need to worry that the Drunken Forest on Shilovskaya Land will ever end up as firewood.
The scientists’ version, of course, is convincing, but it does not fully explain why some people in a drunken forest charge their hopelessly dead phones, their headaches go away, they lose their sense of time and the best shots from the camera disappear. Maybe because for the first time you find yourself among pines bent into a glass, you become a little absent-minded, or maybe there really is something there. The goblin knows him.
The fact is that most tree bending comes directly from the ground. And, as described earlier, sometimes it is impossible to detect where the direction of tree development changes.
It seems as if the trees initially began to grow parallel to the ground, gradually restoring their normal vertical development. Here and there a place where trees grew protruding from the ground naturally attracted attention and required detailed study. Having studied it in different trees, some features were discovered in the form of growths overgrown with bark. And in some places something similar to a root system, but developing in an unusual plane. Not only in pines, but also in similar abnormally developed birches.
The base of a curved birch tree. The full photo of this dancing birch tree was posted earlier.
The full picture of the phenomenon began to emerge more and more clearly. All previous observations formed a clear mosaic. To confirm everything, it was necessary to dig up the base and root of one of these trees. The soil seemed conducive to this - sandy. The matter became contentious, especially after a rotten fire shovel was recovered from a fire-fighting stand located nearby, which had so conveniently turned up. The desire to get to the bottom of the truth and the easily yielding soil, the latter also fitting well into the expected picture of the phenomenon, fueled the work. I would like to warn those who are particularly eco-friendly that for these purposes an already cut tree was chosen, of which there were many in the area. Although initially it was supposed to select a dead tree for cutting, even this was not required. In less than ten minutes, the tree root was freed from a solid mass of sand in one hand and appeared in its “primordial” form.
Video of the excavated base and root system of the Dancing Forest tree.
Here it is - the “root” of all the reasons for the unusual growth of most trees of the Dancing Forest in the Ryazan region. As has already become clear from the video and photo, judging by the development, the tree was once completely felled, probably by a strong wind. The root system was almost completely turned out. After this, the pine, despite such unfavorable conditions, continued the struggle for existence, solving the problem that arose with the abilities at hand. Pines are generally very tenacious. Some of the roots died, forming those very growths, some began to take root as best they could, i.e. went perpendicular to the ground. And one lateral root, left in such precarious soil after the fall of the tree, perhaps following the same behavior as the lateral branches of a tree when the main trunk was lost, began to develop as the main one. Most pine species have a heterorhizal root system, including long and short roots.
That is, the roots began to actively develop, simultaneously compensating for the main tree trunk growing in a difficult position. As a result, the roots developed into the balance of the fallen tree, balancing the main trunk tending to a vertical position. You may even notice that the tree has split at the root when it fell or later. Thus, the growth and behavior of the tree were, quite simply, normal, and not abnormal! The conditions in which the tree found itself were abnormal. But, as you know, “even trees grow on stones.”
Additional evidence for the picture of the phenomenon described above can also be attributed to the general looseness of the soil - it was dug very easily, like sand on a beach. The sparseness of the soil in the places of furrows, and vice versa, the greater density in the places of dumps, as was written about earlier. And also the fact that the planting of trees took place artificially, most likely by seedlings, and not by sowing. It is possible that the planting was carried out mechanically.
Forest planting machine from the 1950s. Young pine plantings.
Naturally, in the forest there were single plants with different types of damage, which can be attributed to some of the other, previously described, versions of abnormal tree development. And partly to the same type of impact, only manifested in a different nature of damage.