The Woods

I was thinking about what the woods meant to me coming from Butte, MT. I found that the woods meant two things to me. The first is out past Homestake Lake where a group of friends and me would play paintball. Lots of fun, just shooting the gun even. The second is out past the trestle. It is creepy. The trestle was an old railroad line that was owned by William Clark. There were many odd suicides and deaths over the years. I had went out there and played flashlight tag and walked up the hill to the top of the trestle.
I find that the woods in Shakespeare is a magical place that love seems to transpire. Such as in Midsummer Nights Dream and As You Like It. I was forwarded an email about these woods in Japan called Aokigahara Forest. A lot of suicides have occurred in the forest because of the increase in deaths Japanese workers walk the forest at least once a month. A speculation was made that people were entering and killing themselves based off an old Japanese story were two lovers enter the woods and commit suicide so they will always be together.