Mysterious Forest in Japan Where Trees Grow in Circles

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You've probably seen many unusual places in the world. Some of them have a cool color, form, others have a unique shape. Like a cool forest in Japan. Groups of Japanese cedar trees swell towards the sky and form mysterious circles. If you get into this forest you won't realize it's something unusual, but if you take a look at the aerial photo, you'll see the difference!  In this video you'll observe this picturesque natural formation from above. And not just that... you'll also see a forest full of curved trees, and a forest with the most giant trees in the world. Visit these 5 weird magnificent forests around the world.      #brightside

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00:00Oh, that's really weird, Susie says, looking at a tree with a yellow bandage tied to it.

00:07She's been walking around a strange forest in southern Japan for an hour, and it seems she's got lost.

00:14She hung the bandage on the tree 30 minutes ago and started to walk right away from it.

00:19She didn't turn anywhere. She was walking straight.

00:22And then, half an hour later, she returned to this tree.

00:26Susie couldn't have gone far from the nearest settlement.

00:29She feels the forest is trying to deceive her.

00:32The trees are moving to not let her out of this place.

00:35All this looks like a horror movie.

00:38As night comes, a mysterious, invisible monster should appear and hang creepy crafts made of sticks on branches.

00:46Anyone would have panicked and started screaming for help.

00:49But not Susie. She smiles in the face of any danger.

00:52Besides, her phone and internet are on, so everything is fine.

00:58She takes a few steps to the side and ties a blue bandage to another cedar.

01:03Then she starts walking along a narrow path, moving further and further away from the marked tree.

01:08She notices something. The path has a slightly curved shape.

01:12Susie starts running forward and returns to the marked tree 10 minutes later.

01:16All this time, she's been just walking in a circle.

01:20Susie walks away to another tree and notices another curved path here.

01:25She takes her phone, opens online maps, and looks at her location through satellite photos.

01:30It's incredible. The trees in this place grow, forming concentric circles.

01:35There are several layers here.

01:36It resembles mysterious circular patterns that somebody left on fields all over the world.

01:41Shocked, Susie records herself on her phone to inform subscribers she has found a strange natural anomaly.

01:49While filming, she hears someone laughing.

01:52It's a smiling guy standing next to her.

01:54He finds it funny how she's speaking seriously about this forest.

01:58He tells her there's nothing unusual about this place.

02:01Trees grow in circles, thanks to people.

02:04In 1973, they planted cedars in such a way with purpose and created 10 concentric green circles.

02:10They did this as an experiment to find out how trees would grow in such rounded conditions.

02:17They called it experimental forestry.

02:19The trees started to grow in a convex shape, symmetrically fanning out.

02:24This proved that the size of gaps between the trees affects their growth.

02:28Initially, they had to cut down the trees according to the plan.

02:32But the place has become popular among tourists and locals.

02:35They love to take beautiful photos using drones and walk along the rounded paths of this little maze.

02:40Susie gets upset a little.

02:43She informs subscribers there's nothing mysterious here.

02:46The guy who told her about the circles offers her to visit the mysterious crooked forest in Poland.

02:51That's where she will definitely see a strange phenomenon.

02:54But before going there, she decides to check out another exciting place in Japan.

02:59She arrives in the fishing village of Aoshima.

03:02The first locals Susie meets here are cats.

03:05There are more of them than people.

03:07Cats are everywhere.

03:09They live here thanks to a lot of fish.

03:12Once upon a time, this place was full of mice that spoiled fishing boats.

03:16People brought cats to this place to fight the rodents.

03:19When all the mice had disappeared, the cats stayed here.

03:22Since then, people have been considering them as full-fledged citizens.

03:27The video with cats gets the most likes on Susie's channel.

03:30But now, as she promised, it's time to go to Poland.

03:33The forest looks weird thanks to the curved trees.

03:37The lower parts of their trunks are bent, making them look like bellies.

03:41It's also strange that they all point only to the north.

03:45Susie goes around the whole forest and counts about 400 trees.

03:49It seems people change the shapes of the trees.

03:52But for now, there's no evidence of this.

03:55It's believed they planted trees in the 1930s and damaged them during growing at an early age.

04:00Nobody can say why.

04:02There was a small village near the forest.

04:04Its locals probably knew the secret.

04:06But unfortunately, the town was destroyed more than 70 years ago.

04:11The key to the mystery disappeared along with it.

04:14Of course, scientists had hypotheses.

04:16But they were all quickly refuted.

04:19Perhaps this curved shape was caused by a genetic anomaly.

04:22There are trees with similar trunks in other forests of the planet.

04:26But here, the curves look too perfect and neat.

04:29It's like an artist worked on them.

04:31This suggests that something from the environment has affected them.

04:35You can find similar trees all over the world.

04:37But mostly, they're loners and never grow in such big groups.

04:42Perhaps snow falls on the tops every winter.

04:45Tree trunks bend under such a heavy weight.

04:47But why is only the lower part changing?

04:50And why do other trees in the forest look normal?

04:53Also, there's no explanation why these trees point north.

04:56Is there any purpose?

04:57The most plausible theory says that local farmers changed tree shapes to create furniture and details for ship manufacturing.

05:05It's fast and easy to make a basket from such a tree, for example.

05:08By the way, manipulating the growth of trees was a common practice among some ancient tribes in America.

05:14They deformed the trunks for navigation and communication in forests.

05:19Well, that's all very interesting.

05:20But now Susie wants to see something scary.

05:23One of the subscribers advises her to visit one creepy forest.

05:27This place is located on an island 17 miles south of the center of Mexico City.

05:33Susie gets here on a small boat.

05:35As soon as she steps on the ground, she turns on the live broadcast on her phone.

05:39She records dolls hanging on trees all over the island.

05:42They have different clothes, different sizes, and faces.

05:46There are about a dozen creepy toys on every tree.

05:50Rain and hot sun deformed the toys' faces.

05:53They're covered with moss and greenery and have taken eerily scary forms.

05:58There are rumors they come to life at night.

06:00Want to check?

06:01One of the subscribers writes.

06:03No problem.

06:04Susie agrees.

06:05The sun is going down below the horizon.

06:08Darkness falls on the forest.

06:10Susie is wandering among the trees.

06:12The moon lights her way.

06:14She makes a fire to get warm.

06:16At this moment, she hears a strange sound.

06:19She notices some movements out of the corner of her eye.

06:22The phone turns off.

06:23Susie looks up and sees one of the dolls, lit up by the flames,

06:27is turning its head in her direction.

06:30Susie screams and runs away from this place.

06:32Of course, the doll didn't move.

06:35You can notice a little bird sitting behind the toy's head.

06:39A few days later, Susie found out that one of the Mexico City locals

06:42had moved to the island in the 50s and filled it with toys.

06:46He collected dolls from landfills and canals around the island.

06:50He spent several years decorating every tree.

06:53In the beginning, it looked strange and exciting for tourists.

06:56Then, as the dolls began to age and rot,

06:59the place became more attractive for people.

07:01There are several legends about the reasons for his obsession.

07:05Okay, Susie's had enough of these mysteries and creepy places.

07:09Now she wants to admire something majestic that was created by nature.

07:13She arrives in California's Sequoia National Park,

07:16where the most giant trees in the world grow.

07:19She's looking with an open mouth at the biggest tree in the world,

07:22a giant sequoia.

07:24Its name is General Sherman, and it's about 2,000 years old.

07:28The volume of this tree is almost half the size of an Olympic swimming pool.

07:33Despite its age, it's not the oldest one.

07:36There are redwoods in the park that appeared 3,000 years ago.

07:40And the tallest tree in the world grows here, in California.

07:44It's a redwood that belongs to the Sequoia family.

07:47It's called Hyperion, and its height reaches 380 feet.

07:51This is one-third of the Eiffel Tower's height.

07:53Just imagine what kind of view you can see from the tree's top.

07:58Now Susie is on the island of Madagascar.

08:00She's going to see unique baobab trees.

08:03They look like something has ripped them out of the ground,

08:05turned upside down, and shoved them back in.

08:08Baobabs are some of the most beautiful trees in the world.

08:11Most of them are here, in the alley of baobabs.

08:14But you can also find them in Australia and South Africa.

08:17Their tree trunks resemble sponges.

08:19They expand and absorb moisture during the rainy season.

08:22Then, elephants like to drink it.

08:24They tear off and chew the trunk's parts to quench their thirst.

08:28At night, flowers bloom on the baobabs.

08:31They smell like sour milk and attract bats.

08:34But the most interesting thing is that the baobab doesn't dry out

08:38and doesn't fall like other trees after the end of its life.

08:41It crumbles, settles, and leaves a pile of pieces on the ground.

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