Island Of Dolls

This island has peeked my interest the most when looking at different haunted places when researching this place I have found out that hundreds of photographers and thrill-seekers travel to this mysterious and creepy haunted  Island every year, but to the locals it was never meant to be a tourist attraction and was a rest place where somthing tragic happens to a little girl.

It takes apparently two hours to get there by boat from Mexico. When you get to this island the first thing you see is the nightmarish clearing deep in the woods where thousands of mutilated dolls hang from the trees and hide among the dense branches rotting lonely swaying in the wind.

Why dolls you ask?

Well the  dolls were put there by a Mexican man who believed they would help the troubled ghost of a small girl who died there on the island over 50 years ago an according to the locals and visitors who go there the little girl still haunts the woods to this day.

 The Mexico man Julian Santana Barrera retreated to the woods shortly after she drowned in the canal and he believes her spirit and soul is still running around the woods. Julian claimed he could  also hear her tormented screams and footsteps in the darkness and he just wanted to help guide her way home using the dolls.

In Tribute to the little girl Barrera discovered a doll floating in the canal where she died and hung it from a tree as a mark of respect to this little girl. Barrera has told some of the locals he has heard a little girls voice from the fill he hung from the tree and this is one of the reason he kept on hanging more up to try and communicate with the spirit of the little girl. Some say Julian put the dolls up to protect himself as he feared for his own life he believed somthing other then the spirit of the little girl resided there. However many say it is the little girl who is still wandering through the woods lost. Since Julian Santana had a wonderful garden, the locals brought old dolls in trade for fresh vegetables. And so, on Doll Island grew an amazing collection of thousands of dolls in various stages of disintegration. 

Still after 14 years of his own mysterious death in those exact woods visitors and locals insist they hear whispers in the dead of the night and some say they feel and see the dolls' eyes following them through the trees as they walk by.

Researching a bit more into the history of the island I found out that Julian died of a heart attack in 2001, and a small white cross near the water marks his grave. His cousin Anastasio now lives on the island, running it as a tourist attraction. “The spirit of the little girl is still here,” he says. “It’s important not to remove the dolls.”

At night, he says, they come alive. “They will move their heads and whisper to each other. It’s very spooky, but I have gotten used to it.” - reference Daily mail 

I hope to find some more research on this island as I find it very interesting I hope you enjoyed reading this I wouldn't recommend reading or looking, let alone visiting the island where the pictures were took if your afraid of dolls as this would be your worse nightmare!!