Mexico's Isla de las Muñecas (Island of the Dolls) is one of the most unnerving locales on Earth, a place where you are greeted by dirty, damaged baby dolls wherever you look. Take a video tour of this creeptastic island if you don't mind plastic infants popping up in your nightmares.
Routinely labelled one of the creepiest places in the world, The Island of the Dolls looks and sounds like something straight out of a Steven King novel. Located on an ancient Mexican canal network, it’s the kind of place where the Chapman Brothers would feel right at home, such is the quantity of ill-formed humanoid plastic on display.
The story goes that a resident named Don Julian witnessed an accident in which a tourist girl fell into the canal and drowned. From that day on, Julian would see her ghost, and in order to appease or scare off the spirit he began collecting old dolls from the canals, from dumpsters, markets, etc., and hung them all over the island like Christmas tree decorations. Apparently this stopped her apparitions, but he continued hanging the dolls for another 25 years until he died a few years ago. Since his death, visitors to the island have continued to bring dolls there.
Routinely labelled one of the creepiest places in the world, The Island of the Dolls looks and sounds like something straight out of a Steven King novel. Located on an ancient Mexican canal network, it’s the kind of place where the Chapman Brothers would feel right at home, such is the quantity of ill-formed humanoid plastic on display.
The story goes that a resident named Don Julian witnessed an accident in which a tourist girl fell into the canal and drowned. From that day on, Julian would see her ghost, and in order to appease or scare off the spirit he began collecting old dolls from the canals, from dumpsters, markets, etc., and hung them all over the island like Christmas tree decorations. Apparently this stopped her apparitions, but he continued hanging the dolls for another 25 years until he died a few years ago. Since his death, visitors to the island have continued to bring dolls there.
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