ray_afraid said:
"a domain of evil it is." That's all we really know about it. I've always figured that it's like an ancient Sith temple or something.
Thats always how I had seen it in my mind. I had kinda pictured a PT scene where it is mentioned in passing, pointing towards it, but not outright explaining how the dark side specifically imbued the area (perhaps in the scene where Anakin visits Palpy at the opera house). Of course, the way Lucas actually wrote the PT, he'd have said that some dark jedi was killed there, and his blood spilled out on the ground, and his "evil midichlorians" seeped into the earth and still live there to this day, growing into all the plants and vines...blah blah blah