Scientists race to solve Poland’s 90-year-old Crooked Forest mystery before it’s lost

A Polish woodland features hundreds of pine trees with lower trunks curving sharply near the ground. These trees were planted in the late 1920s and later abandoned due to war. Foresters may have deliberately bent the saplings for specialized timber production purposes. Natural causes like heavy snow are also suggested but lack definitive proof. The interruption of local life during World War Two preserved this enduring botanical curiosity.