No. Only they started vanishing and soon people didn’t go there if they could help it. I wouldn’t dismiss a curse. It might still be a factor.

[He won’t discount anything until he has enough information to make that sort of call. He studies the board again while his mind works out what they know.]

We should scout when we get there. If we are dealing with a creature it probably has a pattern that no one has lived long enough to report. If it doesn’t we need to know.