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Located south of Mexico City, the island is a place of mystery and superstition. The Dolls island is indeed all about dolls - old, creepy and mutilated - they're hanging, sitting and lying around the place making you feel as you're being constantly watched.
The story of the island began when a hermit named Don Julian Santana moved there to spend the last 50 years of life in isolation. Don Julian used to say he was haunted by the ghost of the little girl who had drowned in one of the canals around the island. Some say he used to fish the dolls from the water because he though they were real children, but the truth is he was collecting and placing them around his home as a shrine for the spirit that tormented him. At one point he even traded home grown fruit and vegetables for old dolls.
Don Julian died in 2001. His nephew found him dead in the same canal that he said the little girl drowned in.
Now his Island of The Dolls is one of the weirdest tourist attraction of Mexico. Some tourists who visited this place claim the dolls whisper and you must offer them a gift upon setting foot on the island, to appease their spirits.
The photos look absolutely creepy to me. Yet visiting the island seems like an exciting adventure. Def adding this island to my list of "must-visit places".
Here are some of the dolls you can find on the island. Scared???
looks ominous... hate dolls
