About four hundred Scots pines planted around 1930 near Nowe Czarnowo in West Pomerania, and every one of them bends hard to the north just above the ground, swings out one to three metres sideways, then straightens and grows up normally to about fifty feet. The bend is at the same height on all of them, which is what rules out most natural causes. The likely answer is people: young trees deliberately deformed to grow curved timber for furniture or boat ribs, by a method nobody wrote down, and the war interrupted whoever knew it. A heavy snowstorm has also been suggested and the evidence for it is thin. It is a protected natural monument of Poland and it is open, free and a short walk from the road.
Nowe Czarnowo, Poland
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