Why to I have to die?

I am connecting the different areas to get a feel for how big each of the areas that I have created are. There was a learning curve with waypoint connections, but I was able to get that issue solved by looking it up. Now, that I am walking around the area in the forest there is a camp of skeletons that I am sure that I did not put there and they are killing me. The more I think about it though I did place skeleton remains as objects not creatures in the area. Those could be the ones that are attacking me. So, I am setting those objects from hostile to defender. I have two reasons for this the first reason is that I do not want to keep on dieing. The second reason is that apart of the story I am going to need the skeletons not to attack me, but to attack other people.