At the foot of the Vottovaara Mountain, you can see absolutely healthy coniferous and deciduous trees. Their height reaches several tens of meters, and the trunks are covered with bark. As you climb to the top of Vottovaara, some abnormal phenomena begin to occur with the trees.
There is not a single living tree on the top of Vottovaara that is several decades old, although there are a lot of young sprouts of pines and firs. At first, they grow like ordinary trees, but after a few years, some kind of anomaly occurs with all trees. It is difficult to explain with scientific arguments.
In most trees, the upper trunk becomes very weak and is broken by the wind. After that, the upper side branches begin to grow, but in a strange way, they do not grow in height, but to the ground. There are dead trees on the mountain, whose upper trunk was retained, however, this did not save them from death.
There is a version that the upper trunk of trees on Vottovaara breaks due to snow sticks in winter. Under the influence of the wind, it breaks. However, on all the hills that surround Vottovaara, the trees grow completely healthy. There the snow does not stick to the tops, and the wind does not break them off. Why this happens on Vottovaara and does not happen on the neighboring hills is unclear.
Over time, the trunks of adult trees on Vottovaara begin to rotate around their axis. The branches also rotate around their axis, and nodes appear on them. On some trees, this is clearly visible, on others less.
As soon as the trunk and branches begin to rotate around their axis, the bark completely falls off, since it cannot rotate. A tree without bark immediately dries up. There is no explanation why this happens, however, all the trees on Vottovaara are withered and without bark. Most of them have very bizarre shapes.
Some sources say that the cause of this phenomenon was a fire that occurred on Vottovaara in 2006. This is absolutely not true. There really was a fire. In different places of the mountain, you can see several charred trees, where there are traces of fire, but 99% of all trees on Vottovaara are withered, without bark and without traces of fire. It is quite obvious that they dried up not because of the fire, but for some other inexplicable reasons.
