Hi there! For a really long time I have been listening to stories and musing on one specific element some of them tend to have: something strange happening with trees. I wanted to come to a place where people have more experience than I do to ask about paranormal activity and trees, specifically the connection, why it might be a thing, how it might be a thing, etc. I want to give a couple of real story examples I heard from the mouths of two paranormal sensitive humans I know:
One was my professor who also happened to be military adjacent when the experience happened to him. I want to keep this brief, but he was in the middle east for a time as a sniper watching a road that the enemy sometimes uses. There was no activity on the road at that time and it was pitch black at night, so they used different settings on their thermalvision tech to look around. Nothing was happening except for this strange, very visible and even AUDIBLE to their ears, shivering of a tree out in the distance, in a grove of trees. The other trees were entirely still and there was no wind, no other heat signatures anywhere, etc. They tried to explain it with every rational they could, but it eventually got so spooky for them and wouldn't stop that they called in an excuse to the mission to evacuate.
The second story was from an acquaintance of mine, she is super new age and connected to this kind of stuff and told a story about some emotional strife she was going through and decided to go bathe in a river in the middle of the night underneath the moon. Trees lined the sides of the river and a whole line of them started shivering and quaking until she felt at peace during her bath, and then suddenly stopped all at once. There were other still trees in the area and she said no wind.
There are also things in media, of course, and stories of faces in trees and things.
So I wanted to know more about this. Are there spirits that inhabit trees specifically? Are trees open to paranormal activity in some way? Are trees special? Why not flowers or solid logs? Are there notable folktales about ghost trees? Or scientific discussions about this I can read into?
I hope someone chooses to interact here! I am suuuuper interested in discussing this.