Hidden near Wehrum Pennsylvania there is a forgotten mining town. Due to pollution from the mines the infant mortality rate in this town is staggering. The isolated people of the town guess something like of every 10 babies born 1 makes it to adolescence.
In the town there is a legend. There is a something, hidden in the remote woods outside town. What this something is varies by who is telling the story. Some call it a creature, a magical artifact, a god, amongst many other excotic ideas. If someone sees this thing they go mad, or maybe they die. The list of horrible things that happen if you see this thing is just as long as the list of what the thing is in the first place. However consistent amongst all variations of the stories is that if a pregnant woman goes into the woods and encounters one of these things there is a chance her baby will be born healthy and live a long happy life.