Government workers cut down mahogany, replanting them with the then-valuable coconut palms. With the forest's trees being cut down, as well as the fact that the villagers were beginning to tap its underground aquifers, this place, formerly so forbidding and so filled with ghost stories, became a neglected wasteland, overrun with weeds and strewn with trash.
林地被開墾，加上村民開始抽用地下水，這一個原本存封在禁令與鬼魅故事間的秘境不再，荒煙蔓草雜生，垃圾也開始堆放，變成一個三不管的廢棄地。