Weyburn resident Albert Forrester is shown during a visit with family members to "The Crooked Bush", which was nominated as one of "Seven Wonders of Saskatchewan".
Weyburn resident Albert Forrester is shown during a visit with family members to "The Crooked Bush", which was nominated as one of "Seven Wonders of Saskatchewan".
The aptly-named bush is a growth of aspen trees near Speers, located east of North Battleford, with several of the trunks growing in wildly crooked ways.
The trees are estimated to be about 60 years old, and researchers are at a loss to explain why they're so crooked. Some researchers from the U of S took a root from one of the trees, but it wouldn't grow; Albert's mother, Irene Munro, planted a tree beside these ones and it grew straight and tall.
She said a local legend claims that UFOs landed on them which caused them to grow like this; other theories include a meteorite landing on them, or the use of witchcraft.
