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Daily Mirror
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Milo Boyd

Inside Belgium's strange 'traffic jam forest' full of abandoned cars for 70 years

You'd have been forgiven for thinking that you'd stepped into a storybook, wandering through the Châtillon car graveyard in Belgium.

That's because it was here that a long line of abandoned cars ran through dense woodland, with rusting bonnets and dented bumpers slowly collapsing as the plants moved in.

When photos of the vehicles first began to circulate, the story went that American soldiers stationed in the nearby town Châtillon during WWII had left following the fall of the Nazis, and were unable to take their cars home with them.

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