Guest WesT Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 The business end of the 12ft. one that was suspended in the air comes to fairly nice point. I have pics of what it looks like now (and the point) but sadly the sticker bushes that were holding it off the ground have since died. I'll have to look for the pics later because it's late and I'm hittin the hay. When I was there this past Tuesday I looked around the area of the blind again and there are 3 maybe 4 spears behind it. If I go out there again tomorrow I'll make an effort to get decent pics of all of them. You can still see a lot of deadfall debris in the area of the blind also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam2323 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Right, EXACTLY like that! I'm not saying I believe I know what twisted these trunks like cooked linguine, you know? We've had some really nice documentation of stuff here, that for me ranges from the easily dismissed as blowdowns, or random trees (they all fall, eventually, right?) to the truly puzzling. These twisties are in that last category for me. Trees blow down, kids and vagabonds can built stick structures...but how some outside mechanical force was able to do something like this...whatever that force is...is just a stumper. A close second are the massively heavy stacks of whole trees in the middle of remote wildernesses, that did not obviously fall off nearby stumps. Conventional theories for me: Well, I got nuthin'.... I agree WSA unless we a actually see a Sasquatch doing this it comes down to a good guess the twisted and broke trees are the most intriguing and unexplained all the other example can most likely be attributed to natures work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WesT Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 I look at critical thinking this way. It's similar to what a firewall is for your computer. Ratchet up the firewall to much and you'll never make it off the starting line. Not enough and you leave yourself open to be bombarded with junk. Yes I have countless pics of treebreaks but don't post any. And all the footprints I saw in the snow in early spring were amazing! I had my camera but I've seen what happens with footprints so I didn't bother taking any pics of them. Here's the pic of the spear as it is now WSA. I've decided I'm going to move it to get a better shot(s) of it (and the others) when I return. While I'm at it, I noticed this last time I was there. Makes a nice perch no matter how it got that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSA Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 That sure wasn't the look I was expecting WesT...was expecting more like a splintered or twisted end. That almost looks cut, or what a beaver might leave. What do you say, since you saw it up close?. I think it is a hickory too, if I had to make an educated guess. Good choice, if you get to choose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WesT Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 I've not seen any beaver there and if it was a beaver it was harvesting wood a good ways from the river. It is possible I guess, not sure why a beaver would chew on the top of a fallen tree but who knows? I'll get better pics hopefully tomorrow. Heck I don't know what to expect anymore WSA. We'll get a better look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSA Posted August 5, 2014 Author Share Posted August 5, 2014 My mistake possibly...and it is hard to tell from just a photo...but that looked like the root-end of the tree? A beaver could chomp either end, or course. If this was brought in from beaver habitat, that is even more interesting still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WesT Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 The first pic shows the base (the end with the largest diameter). To answer your question about what my thoughts at the time were. I remember I had to move leaves to expose the tip and while in that process thought "good grief where is the end?" because it seemed to keep going and going lol. I can't be sure but some of the tip may have rotted off. But my first impression was it looked broken. It's possible it was brought in, but there's no shortage of young tall tree's like that in the immediate area. Here's one that's near the other. I just now noticed it looks like it was stripped of it's branches on the spot! I can see now I need to do a more indepth follow-up on the alleged spears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeafTalker Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Good eye, WesT!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WesT Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 It was a good day this past Thursday! More mysteries, and good debunk all in one day. I'll save the debunk for last because it was the highlight of the day. Upon entering the forest I noticed this on my left. Here's how it's pinned, looks suspect to me, like the top used to be stuck in the crack in the tree (on left) and has since broken away. Here's a close-up of the alleged spears tip. I used a dollar for a size gauge. 3 other suspected spears found behind the alleged blind. Close-up of the tips of these. I've got time for one more before I must go. As I was following my own advice searching the immediate area of the alleged hunting blind I found a pile of rocks that are around this tree and no other trees in the area have rocks around the base. Looks like they've been there a while. View of the alleged blind from tree in the previous pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Tree twist in Salt Fork Park , Ohio. diameter 7in. circumference 22in. The park service had to remove the top of the tree so it would not block the trail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WesT Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Here's what the alleged blind looks like now. The next set of pics are self explantory. You were right WSA!! caught red handed. It seems when a vine wraps itself a young tree it has a more profound effect as the afflicted tree gets bigger. Finally a definative answer to something lol. Kinda refreshing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 JKH: As per your request I moved this over to this thread from our thread "In the field"/"Stillwater and Tennessee Trackers" field notes". My only regret looking back is that we didn't make a video on how when we tried to raise the tree back up, you could see the twist turning. Posted Today, 04:55 AM Our excursion to Kentucky site #1: It really makes me wonder if there is a correlation between finding possible evidence of Sasquatch with old abandoned structures. We found this tree that has an appearance like it had been twisted and laid over in one motion near an abandoned structure known as "Hotel California". When you raised the tree back up, you could see the twist turning and the tree returned back to a normal straight tree. Has anyone else found these weird tree twists? Photograph of "Hotel California" I shot while at the site and later edited after we returned to the home front. Tree that looked like it had been twisted and laid over at the same time. Another view of twisted tree. Close-up view of tree twist. Close-up view of tree twist. Photo of diameter of tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKH Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Thank you SW, for bumping a worthy thread. The twist is most impressive, and the leaves appear pretty green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Salt Fork State Park in east central has numerous tree twist through out the park. As well as numerous BF sightings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Good thread! I heard some trackers swear they can determine direction of travel of a subject by noting the direction of a twist. We see some amazingly intricate wood formations in in the woods of Southeast Michigan as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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