BACKGROUND:The story was reported to http://www.cabiz.net by a 50 year old Canadian man, and was formerly presented at their web site at this web-adressen: http://www.cabiz.net/connections/_disc1/00000002.htm. Unfortunately the story is no longer on this web site, but here is his strory in his own words:

 

TWO TREE CIRCLES IN CANADA 1960s

 

I'm trying to find out any information on a weird unexplained event that occured in my home town.

 

This event happened when I was a teenager. I am now 50 years old, and it still haunts me. The event must have happened around the year 1963 to 1969.

 

The location was Grand Lake, New Brunswick, Canada. I was raised in the town of Minto, a short 10 min. drive from the lake. This area had long been strip mined for coal. In 1960 the mining company (N.B. Coal), started to reforest the area. Pine seedlings were planted over many acres around the lake. There was the most frequently used road to Princess Park (one of the most popular beaches used by the public), where trees were planted on both sides of the road. These trees were growing on crown land, in beautifull perfectly straight lines. About 3 years, maybe a few more, they had grown to be quite tall, and the butts of these trees were about 3 ins. in diameter.

 

In the middle of a summer afternoon I was in a car on my way to the lake. When we came up to this stand of pine trees, the road was blocked with police, and army vehicles. There were several police and army personel walking around inside the pine trees on both sides of the road. We were motioned to not stop, but to move along slowly.

 

While passing by, I noticed on both sides of the road, 2 circles. The trees were all bent to the ground. The circles were about 10 feet away from the edge of the road, one on either side. They were fairly large, about 12 ft. in diameter. The realy odd thing was all the trees layed down flat to the ground, all towards the outside of the circle. The tops of these trees all pointed to the circumfrance of the circle. Later that afternoon army trucks were still directing traffic away from the site.

 

Talk around town was that bears had pushed the trees down. Nothing else was ever given for the explanation. I knew that couldn't be the answer. There were 2 perfectly formed circles, exactly the same size. They were each the same distance from the edge of the road. All the trees were pointing from the centers, towards the outsides of these circles. Months later, the trees were cut as close to the ground as they could. Fencing was put up to keep the curious out. We could see through the fence. There were no broken tree trunks. You could see the butts or the trees enough  to see they were severly curved at ground level. Impossible to do without breaking the trees. (Vår uthevning, red. anm.)

 

I haven't been back there in 13 years now, but for years later nothing grew there. This is not a story, this is the truth. Why would they call the army if it were only bears? Why would they fence it off?

 

 

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Date: 23 Jan 2002
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