I chose the word "terrifying" because legend has it that people easily get lost in there and compasses don't work. In my experience, it's not terrifying at all - and the forest has clear footpaths and roads through it.

It is true that the place seems to attract people who want to "disappear" by killing themselves. Some of those people might have actually been murdered and left there to look like suicides. From what I heard, they're not on the footpaths - The bodies are generally discovered by the local authorities when they make an inspection tour of the area, twice a year. I didn't hear that they hanged themselves - I heard that it was mostly overdoses. But I guess these things might change from year to year.

In my wanderings on the footpaths through the area I never once found anything creepy. I found it to be really very pleasant - and comfortably cool in the summer.