The Dancing Forest

Some of the most common trees in the world are pine trees. Most likely, if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, one is nearby. They are widespread throughout the North, including in China, Russia, the United States, and Canada. Also, they all generally have the same appearance, as trees tend to do. except for one location.

The Dancing Forest is a location in Russia. There are many pine trees in this area, but unlike anywhere else in the globe, the trunks grow strangely and bizarrely. They twist and curl and spiral upwards like someone was twisting them in knots.

The trees in question were not intended to be extraordinary when they were planted in the 1960s. There are other hypotheses as to why they grew in such an odd way, including the hypothesis that some caterpillars may have damaged their early buds and caused them to grow unevenly, as well as the loose, sandy soil. Other hypotheses have included the influence of the wind and a cunning, shady arborist influencing the trees' growth. Yet nothing definite has been found thus far.