Doll Island, Creepy and Haunted.

Are you one of those Dark Tourism Lover?

Then, Come over to Doll Island. You'll feel the goosebumps.

The Island founded by the only inhabitant, Don Julian Santana, where he found a body of drowned child in a canal 50 years ago. He was said haunted by the child ghost and every time he found a floating doll on the canal he would bring it back and hung in the tree. In hoped to both appease her tortured soul and protect the island from further evil.

However, as time passes, Don Juan Santana becoming extreme in his habit and he continued to fish dolls and doll parts out of the canal whenever he saw them, hanging each one carefully on the island. There weren't enough canal dolls to satisfy Santana’s tortured spirit, so he began scavenging more from trash heaps on his rare trips away from home. Later in life, he began trading his home-grown fruits and vegetables for dolls.

Many stories have been associated with the island over the years. A popular tale was that Don Julian had gone mad and believed the dolls to be real children who he pulled from the canal and tried to revive. But the truth, as told by his family members who now run the island as a tourist attraction, is that Don Julian simply believed the island was haunted by the spirit of the little girl. For reasons only known to Don Julian himself, he believed that he could make the dead girl happy and keep evil at bay by hanging discarded dolls in all of the island’s trees.

The story took a particularly sinister turn in 2001 when Don Julian drowned in the canal just like the little girl. Many people said that the dolls, inhabited by tortured spirits, conspired to murder the old man. Others believe that Santana’s death was an accident and that since his passing, the dolls have taken over his role as the island’s caretaker.

Spiders and insects have taken up residence in the hollow parts of most of the dolls. Although Don Julian’s sentiment was innocent and admirable, the doll graveyard he created is undeniably creepy. Soulless eyes follow visitors as they move around the small island (which is actually a chinampa, or artificial floating garden), and many swear that they can hear the dolls whispering to them. This labor of love (or fear, as it were) has resulted in an accidental sensation amongst those who admire the bizarre and twisted side of tourism.

Are you brave enough to experience this darkness? Go ahead and try yourself.