The haunted tree

I took a small trip with a very very dear friend of mine last monday; a trip that led us into an area that was quite impressively filled with dead and scary trees, and places that just HAD to be old cult places and the like. But among all those, this very tree stood out. We just had to leave the path and go closer, look at it in all it's twisted marvel and odd-shaped beauty. Maybe it was just the bare look of it, maybe the pallid light of late February, but isn't there something captivatingly haunting about this?