By now, the story of a bicycle left in a tree generations ago on Vashon should have been a Hollywood movie plot.

The romantic tale begins in 1914, about a local Vashon Island teenager who enlists to fight in World War I. He left his bike under a tree in the woods but never came back for it. The bike remains part of the growing tree. Years of growth have caused the tree to now be lifted seven feet above the ground, with the bike's wheel and frame twisting in and out of the trunk.

The Vashon Island Tale: Why did the boy never come back to retrieve his bike?

Did the trauma of trench warfare make him forget about his bicycle? Did the boy meet a terrible fate and die in battle? Never again to walk or bike the roads of misty Vashon Island.

Here are some facts that discount the Vashon B

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