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Went hiking today and my son noticed this crooked tree, so I took a pic. Apparently Native Americans used rope to mark trees on their trails making them permanently crooked. They are called Trail Trees and the shape usually had a meaning and sometimes pointed in a direction.
So if you see a crooked tree on a hike, it may be a trail tree.
Sauce: https://roadtrippers.com/stories/mysterious-bent-trees-are-actually-native-american-trail-markers
LordDebuchan
No. Obviously lightning struck this tree and the tree took the lightnings shape. I mean come on!
unidentifiableusername
Lakota can confirm.
Pukako
We have some like that in NZ, and Indians is pushing it a bit. Still, interesting enough.
zeekity
dontfuckingdoit
Well is partially correct, they normally bend the trees towards bodies of water or shelter. Not just random trails
TheCrookedTree
I'm finally relevant!
WillUpvoteAllDogS
I read that the Cherokee Indians did this on trials to point the direction to the closest water source or trail direction.
GemBandito
Can confirm it is pointing towards water
CurrentLevelOfAdulting
I’ve heard the same thing.
gaidinbdj
That's not a very old tree. 20ish years. Maybe a bit more. It could have been done to look like a 90s rapper's carve.
itburnswhenupee
Or there’s a big foot in the area
microman55
Hate to break it to you but that tree is only about 20 years old. There's no way a native Indian did that.
GemBandito
Someone suggested maybe the boy scouts or someone else did it.
LitchLitch
This tree is 30 years old, tops. it probably was lopped off along a fence &grew along it until someone removed it.
OddLocking
The tree who lived
pocketcthulhu
My sister bought land and sure enough there are some old growth trail trees pointing at a nearby lake We got excited.
BigChickenSmellDog
That, is cool as heck.
moecurlylarry
Neat
Maybeinanotherdimension
TIL...thanks op.
Zubora
I've also seen trees like this. From what I learned, it was due to heavy snowfall, and then a separate branch reaching for the sunlight.
Zubora
GemBandito
Thats an interesting theory. This is in GA though. There is never really heavy snow here.
william341
I relate to this tree
Rakini
There is no solid proof of this phenomenon historically. It’s a natural occurrence.
hbakeryeah9000
Not necessarily, this technique has been used for a very long time to grow certain shapes for boat hulls and oxen yokes and the like
AnonOmis1000
@op I've heard what they'd do is cut a limb at a 45 degree angle so that as it regrows it grows at a 90 degree angle to how it was
Beeseik
Tree limbs don't grow back.
DocCrit
Is this at Raven rock in North Carolina? Looks just like it.
ozjuggler
No, it's nearer to Megaton.
GemBandito
No, it's High Falls Georgia
Diamondawg42
Is this in Indiana? I think I've seen that tree before
GemBandito
No, it's in GA. They are all over the US
ArrowheadCosplay
Came across a forest full of these. Like it's all that was in the forest.
GemBandito
Weird. I wonder why
GemBandito
Perhaps they were shaping the wood for plows?
circlebreaker
Where?
AntaNce
crooked forest in Poland
amygdahlias
http://www.earthporm.com/mysterious-photos-unexplainably-crooked-forest-poland/
ArrowheadCosplay
Kinda like that except they curved off the ground as opposed to on it
TheUglyGuy
While you are technically correct, that tree is way too young for that to be likely. Although lots of Boy Scouts used the same idea.
Quigonjinnandjuice
Technically is the best kind of correct
EightYearOldsDude
I'd make a joke but I really don't want to wake up to an imgur warning
ForgotMyOtherAcct
Like, something imgur official? Didn't know those existed.
cyno01
Gotten a few of those lately for not using an /s tag on things so over the top i didnt think they needed one.
TheUsernameIsSoLongThatYouCantActuallySeetheSpanishinquisition
What you need to use /s to not get a warn? well i will sure use it
tateossian1
What makes you think Native Americans stopped using it?
SkeletonRecruiter
Because we killed 90% of them and force-marched the rest to Oklahoma like 200 years ago so we could steal their land?
MrtheOffender
Or magnetic compasses. Like, it's probably the first thing,but my anxiety makes guilt about not calling mom bad nuff, don't need all this 2
masterbrotar
Conquering or buying is not stealing
SkeletonRecruiter
Riiight... And the giving of small pox contaminated blankets is a birthday party?
Toobadadag
Conquering is just like stealing with extra steps
Delathi
I'll use that defense next time I get arrested for mugging someone. "Conquering isn't stealing!"
masterbrotar
Haha
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rjrcwalker8
z3lfmoord
Eh?
circlebreaker
WTF did they say?
rjrcwalker8
That there was a casino
SandwichRGood
it looks like @OP's dick
SandwichRGood
jk but probably something like that
circlebreaker
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
ALargePoop
D.
MigrantDeepInAHorse
What
ALargePoop
It’s supposed to be just a “.” I don’t know where the “D” came from. I wanna know what the deleted comment said too