What causes this?

>>40607081 (OP)
You never read european folklore or myth.
They're filled with horror stories and weird monsters and beings kidnapping people, eating people or leading people astray in forests.

>>40607173
Yes I have

>In 2009, more than 1,500 migrant workers, mostly from Vietnam, were lured into work in the forest in the Czech Republic with false promises by middlemen and criminal employment agencies.
>They received no pay, hardly any food, poor accommodation and have been threatened and intimidated when complaining, leaving them with huge debts.
>“I once saw a Romanian whose leg had been badly cut by a saw. It hadn’t been cut off, but severely injured. The Slovakian overseer drove him to the Romanian border and left him there. A plastic bag was wrapped around the injured leg… Even if he had died there, he wouldn’t care.”
>the very company responsible for this case of modern slavery is still being awarded 75% new governmental tenders in Czech forestry, while the subcontracting agency continues to operate under a different name.

You could fit europe in rhode island. There forest is like the average american lawn