Trees that look like...?

About 30 years ago I lived in a little village which you approached down a steep tree lined hill. Very late one night I was walking home from the local town having missed the bus and not having enough money for a taxi. As I started to walk down the hill I saw what I thought was a body hanging from a tree. I was terrified, but I kept on walking. I couldn't take my eyes off the body. I didn't know what to do. Whether to run past or go right up to it. It was long before the days of mobile phones, but I thought that if I went past it, I could go the the public telephone in the village and phone the Police. Eventually I got close enough to see the distorted, tortured face of this poor unfortunate that had seen fit to end their life on this lonely road. To my great relief, the body turned out to be a branch of a tree that had blown down in the wind. There was nothing there to worry about at all.