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The Island of the Dolls Has a Murky and Terrifying History Just south of Mexico City, there’s a haunted island that's completely overrun with decomposing dolls. Back in the 1950s, the island’s caretaker hung the first doll after finding the body of a drowned girl in the canal. Before long, he became obsessed with appeasing the girl's spirit and covered nearly everything on the island with dolls. Then, in an eerie twist of fate, his body was discovered in 2000. He had drowned in the same place as the dead girl he'd found decades before. The Island of the Dolls (La Isla de las Muñecas) is a chinampa of the Laguna de Tequila located in the channels of Xochimilco, south of the center of Mexico City, Mexico. It is a popular tourist attraction due to dolls of various styles and colors being found throughout the island. They were originally placed by the former owner of the island, Julián Santana Barrera, who died from a heart attack in 2001. He believed that dolls helped to chase