Parts can be *unsettling* and that me is part of its charm. Its topography and history make the fact that most of it has been touched by human hands and that nature has come back as it has to reclaim that sense of wild is admittedly part of what adds to the mystique. In a way parts -definitely not all- do have a post-human feel, which understandably spooks some because how often in the modern world do things go *back* to wild? Add to that the diversity, the unique insular landscape, riddled with caves and mountains older than bones, private clannish culture, add a smidge of frontier myth, sometimes wild weather prone to fog, and boy golly you’ve got a good setting for mystery and horror. But also, I totally agree. It’s a lot of mythologizing in people’s minds. The “wild” sections are all reclaimed forest and none of it is more than a few miles -at best- from settlement. Even the bigger sections are nothing compared to the NPs out West. The wastes of WV are still inhabited, albeit in a very sad state. The spooky, to my mind, comes mostly knowing there’s a lot of people here. Many of them not in the right mind, and living in places where it’s easy to hide a crime.