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Fredeleana Mitchell
Canton, IL · 19 days ago

the Indians of years ago bent the tree as a marker

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Jason c
Montrose, MO · a month ago

The years the tree didn’t identify as Straight 🤔

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Colors Fade
Kingsport, TN · 7 hours ago

I stand corrected, it's a bi tree. It goes both ways.😂

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Colors Fade
Kingsport, TN · 7 hours ago

Looks like a gay tree

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JohnnyBeeGood
East Haven, CT · 18 days ago

It's a marker. Dad taught this stuff to scouts back in the day.

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0v3r_ca7
Shelby, NC · 18 days ago

points to water..

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Mike E Milovich
Chicago, IL · 17 days ago

Oh yeah I see now!! Clickbait =report

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DeadBalls
Royal Oak, MI · 18 days ago

it definitely still tells other trees it's straight...

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Stephen Jacobs
Morris, AL · 18 days ago

More than likely had another tree fall on it at one time it fell off and then it straight back up

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Jacob Koch
18 days ago

old way american indigenous tribes would mark a trail. denotes landmark a cache stash or summer hemp crop. obviously traditional trails aren't used heavily as before so wont be worn like they were way back before roads & cars. can also be hunting waypoint guide, cause everything looks same mid winter.

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Jesse Kneib
Troy, MO · 18 days ago

Pointing towards water

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Ur MOM
Brainerd, MN · 18 days ago

Dig up the entire area maybe you'll find a jar of pennies. That tree is maybe 20 years old. Who gives a shit?

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Rob Hall
Perkasie, PA · 18 days ago

Those trail markers are hundreds of years old ,(big trees) that's not. It's just a bent sapling

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James
Plano, TX · 18 days ago

nahhh most the time they point to water is your lost natives and others would bend them while still young

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Steve Warlick
Robbins, NC · 19 days ago

Probably was bent by ice during an ice or snow storm. Then it grew due to warm weather and sunshine. I see them in NC where ice storms are frequent. It is not old enough to be changed by native Americans for a trail marker.

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Dr Borg
Hubert, NC · 19 days ago

Probably lockbox old maps, i creek or something was there. Identifies water sources. We have a couple on our land along a creek

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Keith
Topeka, KS · 19 days ago

tree grew around another tree at one point in time.. look around the area fallen trees...

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John Armes
Tucson, AZ · a month ago

it's how the old timers used too grow walking canes.

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Rodney Morales
Athens, GA · 19 days ago

What they’re saying is that tree stands out from other trees so you can use it as a reference point for direction in the woods

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mis mesohorni
19 days ago

well actually, back,way back in time the native Americans used this as a way for traders to come to villages. it's called a thong tree. I found one in Kansas. its a really old one about as big around as a watermelon. I have photos of it. I hunt crows 50 feet away from it. but it points to some camp by the Elk River. ..R.E.D..U.S.M.C

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Bill Lance
McMinnville, TN · a month ago

up in the mountains where I grew up I followed them and they always led to a creek or source of water

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night raven
Mims, FL · 20 days ago

it's how old timers used to Mark property lines

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Shawntai Marie
McGraw, NY · 23 days ago

they are markers from Native American Indians. they often led to water, food, or important destinations. pretty cool that you found one. it doesn't look that old so its probably a farmer or something that use the same technique.

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Arthur Ranguette
Farmington, NH · a month ago

Peyronie's disease😆

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ScreamNShout Thompson
Shelbyville, IN · a month ago

designated a nearby source of water, etc

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jarhead
Fowlerville, MI · a month ago

😆It’s called nature. You know that they charge you for getting lost in the woods.

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the Lorax
Ishpeming, MI · a month ago

I know exactly what this is because I made one.. I was walking through the woods with a machete clearing my trail behind my parents property and I hacked halfway through a baby tree and it fell over sideways.. I figured it would die so I kept going and after 20-25 years that tree has grown and now looks pretty similar.. maybe that explains the "trail marking" theory

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Mike Oudt
Trego, WI · a month ago

See if you can find another one near by.