The Beast and the Unknown

The beast said lost souls and keep saying lost souls of kids, the 'trees are souls', and was going to turn the kids body into another tree, but it is made of souls... To be more exactly: 'lost souls of children who have wandered far from home' Does that means that the kids are actually only theirs souls and theirs bodies are still alive in the river? So the beast is like/a demon collecting lost souls and turning them into trees, using the people that lives in here to make oil for it. So the forest are all the souls of lost kids, the only way to go back to the river could be defeating the Beast, because all those trees are the ones that tried to go back home and gave up... The people living here must have forgot theirs home and decide to make the Unknown their home. Maybe the Unknown is Limbo and if someone stay in here for too long is too late to go back and they forget about the other world. The people from the Unknown doesn't really use logic, maybe because the Beast make sure they can't think of a way to be a threat? Because no one thought about the forest and the Edelwood really come from, they really don't think in a very logic way... Like Auntie Whispers 'using the bell without trying to get the spirit out of Lorna only controlling it when she knew she could control it, Beatrice throwing a rock on a blue bird because she was angry.... 'Adelaide actually having a windows that could be easily opened by a ble bird... You know instead of locking it. 
And the very suspicious Black Turtles, too many of them and the first episode.... They will never make me rally trust them... Because the Beast watched them from afar without being noticed.... The beast know that was going on.... The Turtles are almost on every episode, all the times the Beast showed up, but in the first episode.... Thye turtle was fully black while the Turtles that Antie Whisper eats aren't really black, nor they are fully black, like in Episode 1, 3, 4.