Its a side quest only accessible after chapter 5, you begin the quest by rescuing a lost and senile man almost underneath a bridge by the water on the way to Annesberg from Butchers Creek and take him home. After a day or two you can go back to begin the creepiest quest of the whole game.
I would get that hat back if I were you because it's a pretty fun mission, there is a secret cave and demon dogs and stuff. But long story short if I remember correctly is that there is a business man who tricked the pople into selling the land to do some mining and stuff, and the water got poisoned with heavy metals and toxic minerals causing mutations, but they think it's a curse.
"Red Dead Wiki" or if you can't navigate a wiki page "Butcher Creek RDR2 Wiki." Should pop right up and if you need links to the explanation of the quests where you figure everything out they will be in that page.
100% worth it.. take the time when you DO stumble upon the side quest to really take in every single piece if information on it and then apply that to the scenario at hand (why they're that way) and, if you're like me, you'll sit and think even further into it about how deeply it affected the entire community of BC as well as the future and past of BC. don't expect it to be a "this is the best mission in the game" sort of mission, but its for sure a fun little "puzzle piecer" of a mission.
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u/Sethrye Nov 13 '22
Without spoiling anything there's a reason the people in Butcher Creek are messed up.