Oct 4th, 2011 Crooked Forest
 

In a tiny corner of western Poland a forest of about 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks - all bent northward. Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees this collection of curved trees, or "Crooked Forest," is a mystery.

the first crop circle

It's a Polish question mark.

Interesting. Those trees are small and fairly young. I bet there are people alive who know the story and may have even been involved in their growing that way.

:alien: intervention.

Maybe someone wanted to build a crooked house.

Polish Wikipedia entry

translated:

Where's my Alphorn post?

could they all have been knocked flat during that blast that hit western russia back then? wasn't there some kind of big explosion or meteor strike back then around there?

edit: no, too early and too far away

Yup

Just a big gust of wind. Snap the sapling's trunks just above ground level, with enough wood intact that the sapling survives.

Or pushed over or squashed with the intent to destroy, but not enough effort.

After the 2003 Canberra fires, there was a pic in the paper (can't find it on google) of a place in a pine plantation that had copped a huge blast of heat and sustained winds well over 100 kph. The saplings - about 1.5 meters tall - had been bent over almost 60 degrees, and had frozen there when the heat faded but the wind continued. I presume they all died from the heat but it was damn weird and creepy.