The Island of the Dolls

Last year I came across  a video and article about this place called the Island of the Dolls, La  Isla de la Munecas in Spanish. The island is known as one of Mexico's strangest tourist destinations. Everywhere you look, there are dolls. Dolls hanging in trees, on walls and sitting on chairs.

The island is stands between Xochimilco and Mexico City, in  Teshuilo Lake. The ghost of a little girl who drowned in the Xochimilco canal near the island is said to haunt the Island of the Dolls. The tale of the island goes that Don Julian Santana, the man who lived on the island, found the body of the drowned girl in the canal. He believed that her spirit haunted him, and so he collected dolls to hang in the trees to appease her spirit. The dolls on the island were found floating in the canal and in rubbish dumps. Santana also traded produce he grew on the island for dolls. People said that the spirits of the dolls were responsible when Santana died in 2001 - he drowned in the same canal as the little girl all those years ago.

Go here and here for more creepy doll pictures!

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