These backwoods have always been a strange place, even to the people who know them quite well.  The roads are shaped to the land itself, not the other way around like everywhere else.  When it gets dark, there are no lights to guide you home, and the dense clusters of trees look awfully similar when you're scared... or trying to run away from something.  Even those who are familiar with these woods get lost in them.  When those who know the woods can't even find their way, what possible hope is there for clueless tourists who don't know better... or even worse, for those who think they do?

Legend even describes of monsters who live in these parts.  There are the ones that you're familiar with:  bigfoot, el chupacabra, alien abductions, or giant snakes or crocodiles.  Then there are the ones you aren't, that are local to their specific time and place.  Maybe a mutant race of pig men, or the bog creatures who live deep in the muck and mire...

These woods themselves seem to harbor a strange secret.  More than a few tourists have gone missing in these parts, and there seems to be a pattern:  young, beautiful women who think themselves strong and independent.  It's a mystery why they vanish from the face of the Earth, never to be seen again.  One wonders just what kind of creature might have taken them.  One wonders what that creature would do to them when they are trapped, all alone and helpless...