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Imagine if we live in a forest of trees that were that big. We could hollow them out and make apartments and set up all manner of bridges and different ways to get from tree to tree. Helicopters would make a lot of sense for the common person. In my mind I see a great opportunity to write a movie script about some world where trees were actually that big.

If petrified trees exist (which they do), it's entirely possible that ancient giant trees trees are all petrified now instead of wood. Agates are solidified lava, all lava turns to stone when they make contact with water. And yet, volcanic earth is the most fertile soil of all.

This is the most extreme view of the theory. The version I heard was that SOME mountains were once towering trees. I didn't hear anything about no such thing as rocks and past nuclear war.

One thing I’ve learned in life is that there is a little bit of truth in all stories.

Petrified wood can be stone-like, so that bit make at least a small bit of sense. Still a fascinating idea, could they have partially gotten the idea from the legend of Yggdrasil?

A LOT of trees are more closely related to grass (palm trees) and even broccoli(forget the genus) , and the theory isn’t that ALL mountains are petrified trees it’s specific structures are maybe some people take it to that extreme but if you keep it in the realm of possibility it is an interesting theory

A very easy way to investigate this theory would be to simply look at the roots. If these were really trees they would have massive roots

Not every mountain obviously but theres def a few of these giant tree stumps around the world

I like to entertain crazy ideas, but there's a difference between granite and the minerals that come from petramineralization. Therefore the idea that all mountains were trees is truly... wrong. But I would like to further entertain the possibility that some "mountains" are these legendary trees and would like to see serious scientific research about it for sure. Sand is made of a lot of quartz and silica, there's the correlation, because thats the minerals from petramineralization of trees.

It's odd that this documentary makes it seem impossible that trees could be these mountains. One of the reasons he uses is because of the composition. And another comment I just posted underneath this one I point out how petrified wood can turn into things like quartz or magnesium and coal which is what you also find if you were to go looking for those materials.

Glad to see this story isn't lost in the mainstream. I saw the original video before it was taken down along with a huge selection of fringe/conspiracy theories. It was quite entertaining :). But more aggravating is the patronising censorship of this content and we are slipping on this anti free speech slope one cancellation at a time.

"Hey! That looks like a tree." "It must be a tree."

We’ve seen that some trees can hold a massive amount of water. What if some of the major bodies of water were formed when the mega trees were cut down?

couldn't imagine a tree that tall of 15miles in the air it would be breath taking to see.

Watched the original "no trees on earth" video and was captivated by it such that I returned to it several times. the original video was like a somehow incredibly soothing fairytale.

I'd say the mountain you used in the thumbnail could be argued as the tree of life depicted in ancient texts. It's rock formations are hexagonal and tree cells are hexagonal. I'm not saying I believe it but thatd be there best bet for a better argument

In ancient times when oxygen levels were higher there was giant everything so why does this seem so strange? Not every mountain but yeah sure. You got dinosaur bones left over and the trees of there day. Some of those trees may have rotted away but some could have petrified.

They probably believe that Jack and the Beanstalk is really based off of actual events. Lol

I have a tree that was cut down in my yard and after about 7 years and some vegetation that has grown over it-it definitely looks like a tiny mountain! I’m not sure about all of our mountains being trees once but it is quite possible if you open your mind. The fact that we are losing our freedom to speak our views and theories and the control of the great G search factor and the powers that B is the sad part!

In 1961 my family went on a cross-country trip of the USA and we visited the “petrified forest”. It consisted of giant felled”trees”. They were “frozen” in concentric rings with beautiful quartz. Does this forest still exist?

“Petrified” and “Mud Flood” missing from narration to bind the theory.

I mean, how stupid can people be? As Einstein once said - the only difference between genius and stupidity is that the former has it’s limits

Have to admit, this sounds like a fascinating backdrop to put your characters and stories on. I can imagine tree stumps as large as mountains, each having their own unique ecosystems and/or settlements that thrives by extracting the tree's "woods", and each of these "tree communities" can trade or make war with each other. For additional drama we can have one sole remaining "world tree" that still in a quite pristine condition, and everyone in the world is racing to stake a claim on it.

The way this video explains the theory it's obvious they don't want people thinking mountains could actually be ancient trees. They even goes as far to say RU-vid has removed videos that compares mountains to tree stumps. That is not true. There are many videos on youtube comparing not only rocks to tree-stumps but many different life forms that resemble ancient life. I recommend doing your own research in my opinion this video is trying to hide the truth by making the theory sound absolutely ridiculous. It's time to wake up

I always looked at mountains as broken tree stumps......and imagine how tall they would have been.....

I would go with the flood theory or the nuclear theory just because history repeats it self. Also... If giants were walking the earth in those days , then respectfully that would back up the great flood written in the scriptures, for the great flood was sent to destroy the giants & all wickedness. Nuclear would also explain how little men defeated "the giants" & would also explain alternatively the great crater that they claim wiped out the dinosaurs.

There were surely some very big trees and plants in the history of the planet I beleive. They were untuched so they could be alive for long time and grow large in some areas.

Scientists from Wyoming State Parks Department conducted photographic seismic readings below the tower, they discovered an incredibly large, petrified root system below the tower. They released a statement saying, "We have discovered, what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of The Devils Tower.

You missed the massively important differentiation between the colloquial theory, a guess or idea, and a Scientific Theory, the explanation of natural processes backed up by all current known evidence.

It's not that impossible to imagen "trees" of that size... BUT I don't believe they are the mountains today as "leftovers"...

Interesting that the original video (which I watched, by the way, and was quite well-done) proposing the idea that certain (some) mountain formations are the remains of gigantic tree stumps, interesting that it was removed from the internet. Given this, one should stop and think: Why would such a video be banned, censored, unless the party doing so felt threatened somehow? Is the free exchange of ideas, here, so threatening that the concept had to be 'obliterated' from cyberspace? What could possibly account for such an uncalled-for extreme action (clearly violating the highly respected, at least formerly so, concept of 'free inquiry' and free speech)? For those people who truly are mature, independent, free thinkers (a very desirable psychological state), they would not reject such an idea outright, but be willing to look into the matter more deeply. Further, though this video asserts there is no credible evidence to support this theory, the author(s) does not attempt to substantiate its viewpoint, really, other than to ridicule and belittle. How shallow! Without saying one way or the other as to the validity of this theory, I would heartily suggest for any individual who might be interested to pursue further serious, conscientious inquiry. I will say at the outset that it will take some 'digging', but having done so, that individual might be greatly surprised as to what they may find. "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy (world view)." Shakespeare's Hamlet

Well, now, an interesting suggestion I have heard is that, trees hold water, for instance, the cedar trees can hold water in their trunks, when one is an older tree, it can hold hundreds of litres, and when this puddles around the base of a cut down tree, it form's a rather large puddle or small pool. What would a giant silicone tree hold, that were hundreds of miles high and miles wide at the base. Do trees still continue to artisan, water from deep underground, and these are the rivers that flow from the mountains???

Petrification takes 5 to 10 thousand years at its quickest under the best of circumstances. The erosion of the resulting stone, an additional long time. If there were trees miles across, miles high ANY civilization would take centuries to use their energy. If they fell, they would leave behind petrified trails miles long. Where are the furnaces that burned the trees? Where is the further evidence of petrified wood? It should be EASY to find.

A man approached me in El Dorado Canyon, outside Boulder, CO, pointing out the cliffs were trees. I could actually visualize it…

Ah yes, let's just casually chop down every single horrifically tall and multiple mile wide ganttt tree on earth.

Obviously this is a theory and a really neat one at that, but you never know what’s really possible within our universe. Who knows, their may actually be a giant planet completely in covered sand with or without the help of giant sandworms like in DUNE.

My only problem with the narration was that it imposed or encouraged a link between flat earthers and giant trees.

I believe the worlds atmosphere (sky) was diffrent. That it had a protective layer that allowed giant growth. Giant people. Then for some reason that layer faild and fell to earth causing the great flood.

Awesome, volcanoes spew out molten trees. 🤔😆

According to ancient Vedic legends there are trees miles high and miles wide. However, this was usually put forward as some kind of Cosmic reality. Otherwise, these ancient Vedic legends also suggest that trees and people were much more gigantic in very ancient times. The Dinosaur were sometimes gigantic and apparently feeding on gigantic vegetation. Thank you for sharing informative videos!

Sounds like a genuinely cool setting for a D&D campaign...or maybe they're just describing Endor.

If that were true why has no mountain/tree regrown ?

The earth holds many secrets, The Smithsonian holds many things. That scene in the original Indiana Jones of all the boxes in a warehouse is true

So... If the mountains are trees, wouldn't that make what we call trees today growing on mountains cannibals?

They said it’s a “strange theory” not once did they say they believed it or that its true. Y’all need to calm down 😂

Devils tower was what woke me. If you look closely it has square columns the resemble plant fibers. The reason they give us is absolute bs. The mental gymnastics/ dodging required to belueve that is astounding. It literally still has the green facia fibers on it. Devils Den was in fact a plant of some sort likely a silicon tree. In no other instance does lava flow in such a way as to mimick plant fibers. All the flat tops have visible root systems.

This is some wonderful D&D homebrew fuel, right along with the "Earth is an infinite hyperbolic disc" theory. It is a tremendous amount of fun.

It's the book "Land of Giants" then. Fascinating.

I remember the first book I ever read, and I read it over and over again, and 45 yrs on, I still want to live in a hollowed out oak, on my side of the mountain... 🤔😊. Ahhhh the memories

Has anyone ever witnessed lava forming hexagonal formations in real time? (No). I'm not a flat earther, but there's too much real evidence that this WAS a reality.

I believe in lost history, but this is way out there!

That time only changed in the last 100 years in Baltimore City. What was once an area where Cromwell built a Long Bridge in the King's Forest with trees of enormous size with fresh water springs running beneath them became storage facilities for Rockefeller Oil and toxic waterways. Today known as Baltimore City. We should spend time focusing on who created "Shape" of conditions, instead of the conditions which create the "Shape"

If the earth was flat, we would not see a crescent moon.

The Devils Monument look like a tree trunk from above, and The Giants Causeway does have the same hexagonal shapes. Interesting theory. Too bad the video is no longer up because it had many interesting pictures of mountains and treestumps side by side which was very convincing to this theory. Some mountains could be fossilized trees..

9:15 harry- look at the buns on that 9:20 lloyd- yeah, he must work out lol

So...Just a thought...If this theory is accurate...would that mean that desert is just the saw dust from the ancient enormous trees...?????

Imagine if trees COULD get that big though! Wouldn't they peak out of the atmosphere at that size?

Obviously, the brainchild of this idea must have watched "Avatar" (2009) where the trees on the planet Pandora were as big and high as mountains in many scenes. An interesting idea nevertheless.

Why can’t there be trees that big or bigger. Everything is so so much smaller now anyway

When I was very young I always thought of the mountains when I looked at trees very closely.

The thumbnail pic is a leftover vocanic cindercone that was very high in silicone content. It is pure feldspar, which has a hexagonal crystal structure

I like the mountain/tree theory. Mostly because i wonder who cut them down.

When I was a little girl I never wanted to work the land and the thought of mountains as being Trees never crossed my mind. . .

Exploring mud fossils is a fascinating and relatively unexplored area of science, true; but this one takes the cake.

At one time the Earth had a canopy of water vapor surrounding it which made life bigger and longer lived. No doubt that giant trees helped create that canopy.

The glasshouse mountains in Queensland Australia sorta look a bit like these

Some hills are the petrified remains of Giants.

Maybe some high spots are old trees but not all mountains are. Gotta keep definitions straight. Interesting and entertaining. We are always learning new things about life around us. We don’t have all the answers at any given time.

Oh dear god! This was originally a story on a satire news Facebook page that the writer (Justen) posted saying that devil’s mountain was a tree stump Jesus people

Mountains are formed by a few different things. Water plays a role for example. I watched a documentary about how the Grand Canyon was formed and it's soo interesting! The Grand Canyon has been under water about 6 times before.

The theory that “*Some Mountains are trees”….because some of them definitely look so

Well, apparently having had Titans on earth, now mountain ranges, it is plausible to have titanic sized trees here too!!

I don't think your typical mountain could be a tree, we already have the evidence to prove they're not. But devil's tower... that's a different story. It stands mostly alone and the shape screams tree. If it were a tree, i highly doubt it ever reached multiple miles tall though, maybe a couple-thousand feet taller than it is now, but certainly not miles.

Petrified wood found in the park and the surrounding region is made up of almost solid quartz. Each piece is like a giant crystal, often sparkling in the sunlight as if covered by glitter. The rainbow of colors is produced by impurities in the quartz, such as iron, carbon, and manganese.

Imagine if people that believed this "theory" had an ounce of critical thought and didnt operate off of impulse alone!

My hometown is Weehawken NJ. The name comes from the indigenous people there on and near the Palisades on the Hudson River. 'The rocks that look like trees'.

Trees are plants 🌱 🏔 mountains are not plants lol

The Nephilim cut the giant trees down. Think about it Jack and the Beanstalk

I will withold specificities because you should think for yourselves and not simply accept what you are told. I was climbing, and scrambled upon a flat surface. But it was not flat; it had a slight curvature. The surface was about 25 feet wide and 60 feet long. As I bushed away the moss and debris, the surface revealed itself. It was one solid piece of petrified wood. It was obvious that this was only a splinter of what had once been. I could not fathom the size nor the age of the tree of which this had once been a part. And only a mere fragment. I do not pretend to know, but I know that things are not as they appear.

I looked into some of this and they never said all mountains are old trees. Some of them sure look like they are especially the devil's canyon.

If you had fun making this video look into the theory that ancient giants spoken about in various myths fossilized into stone. It's surprisingly detailed how much work believers have put into it.

Honestly I think it is entirely plausible for some of these flat-topped mountains to have been trees. Not all mountains, obviously, but some of them are somewhat suspicious. We know that there were giant mushrooms and giant flowers and giant dragonflies, so why would it be such a reach to believe that there were massive trees as well? I definitely think it is worth researching...and the fact that RU-vid removed it should be more than enough to convince you to look deeper into it, since they leave up all sorts of ridiculous theories and remove this one. There must be truth in there somewhere.

This reminds to me to the fact that Earth in the past, had way more oxigen than we have now

They aren't trees. You would need a continent sized chainsaw to do that kind of smooth clear-cutting LOL

What's next? Giant termites? Giant acorns forgotten by giant squirrels?

When I first heard about this, it had no ties to flat earth.. just that the earth once had silicon based life.

Just today I wondered if the oil in the earth isn't the sap or decomposition of the giant trees. I've never believed it was dinosaurs.

My mother is from south Yemen. She said she was told trees in her village where huge before it was populated.

And bigger trees, produce more oxygen, therefore bigger animals…like dinosaurs (and humans) …I wonder if gravity was different too and a asteroid knocked into us and changed everything up…

Thanks for covering this. I had heard some info about this, but you filled in some gaps. You presented a towering forest of hard data! :-D

If the video is now gone I guarantee you it was due to youtube themselves who removed it. I know there use to be multiple different channels that had reposted it as well at one point. Definitely worth watching the whole video if you manage to find it.

I saw these trees in a dream when I was a kid... They were bigger than a city and most of them had fruit... It appeared to me that the earth had a huge bush wrapped around it like the rings of Saturn... 💯

LOL I love the internet, you can find everything here. Mountains are really trees. The ocean is really a glass of water for a giant. The stars are really flashlights of aliens looking for earth. Rain is really angel tears because she lost her glasses and can't read her favorite book. Since there is a grain of truth in every story, as one noted below, my story must have one too. LOL.

Physics determine the fact that a tree even 1 mile tall could not stand under it's own weight. Nothing else need be said.

and I assume that these mountains that are trees, are just for some reason conveniently growing where two plates collided

If you see the giant petrified tree remains in the Black Hills of South Dakota, which happens to be a few miles from the Devil's Tower, you begin to wonder if there were not at least a few massive trees back in the day. Its right off of highway 244 there between the Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse monuments; I think its called the Black Elk Wilderness with the Peak looking an awful lot like one of those huge petrified but crumbling cedar tree stumps. But yeah, there are whole sections of obvious giant petrified tree remains there with crystalizes sap and everything.

Let me interject some logic here, if I may. I will only say this once, rock has never been wood. Full stop!

Saying random stupid things isn't a theory. If I say hamsters are potatoes, I'm being dumb, not theorizing.

On the original video where people refer to that guy as a doctor or his quote 'work' I ask where are all the giant fossilized leaves are and where is the remaining fossilized tree trunk if Devil's Canyon was a tree that was cut down? And it wasn't long after that I was banned from the channel lol