Hoia Baciu Forest: Transylvania’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’ and the Clearing Where Nothing Grows
About 4 min readJust west of Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, the Hoia Baciu Forest is famous for twisted trees, a round clearing where no trees grow, and a 1968 photograph of a disc-shaped object — a reputation built from folklore, a real photograph, and decades of retelling.