November 19th, 2009 
Spooky 
Known as “La Isla de la Munecas”, by the Spanish, The Island of the Dolls is perhaps the creepiest tourist attraction in Mexico. Located within an extensive network of canals, south of Mexico City, the island is a place of mystery and superstition.
Almost every tree growing on the island is decorated with old, mutilated dolls that give anyone the feeling that they’re constantly being watched. The story behind the Island of the Dolls began when a hermit by the name of Don Julian Santana moved here. Although he was married he chose to live the last 50 years of his life alone.
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.
Ironically, in 2001 Don Julian Santana was found dead by his nephew, in the same canal that he said the little girl drowned in. Now his Island of the Dolls is one of the world’s weirdest tourist attractions. 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.
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Holy shit!
Reminds me of the Point Lookout expansion for Fallout 3. It has dolls on sticks, or tied up to trees all over the swamplands and marshes.
That looks like my front yard! lol
Anthony Bourdain went there on the mexico episode of his show, the guy that owns the island is just some regular lookin dude
Well, I won’t be trying to sleep anytime soon.
Why has no one made a thriller movie about this?? Or at least a good book?
[...] ‘Valley of the Dolls’ Creepy Dolly attraction in mexico [...]
This was a featured investigation on the last season of Destination Truth that airs on SciFi. There were some pretty odd happenings. One of the dolls wasn’t touched and opened it’s eyes when the host/main investigator was talking.
I will have nightmares. Thanks.!
holy crap- Point Lookout anyone?
Point lookout is an expansion for Fallout 3, as someone said.
google maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=19.283946,+-99.094208&vps=1&jsv=196c&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.957823,75.9375&ie=UTF8&geocode=Feo_JgEdQPEX-g&split=0
[...] Mexico – Known as “La Isla de la Munecas”, by the Spanish, The Island of the Dolls is perhaps the creepiest tourist attraction in Mexico. Located within an extensive network of canals, south of Mexico City, the island is a place of mystery and superstition. Almost every tree growing on the island is decorated with old, mutilated dolls that give anyone the feeling that they’re constantly being watched. The story behind the Island of the Dolls began when a hermit by the name of Don Julian Santana moved here. Although he was married he chose to live the last 50 years of his life alone. 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. More… [...]
[...] of abandoned dolls and spare parts to a local museum. I’m sure they’d fit better on The Island of the Dolls, [...]
The creepiest and best Destination Truth took place here.
[...] Oddity Central – Known as “La Isla de la Munecas”, by the Spanish, The Island of the Dolls is perhaps the creepiest tourist attraction in Mexico. Located within an extensive network of canals, south of Mexico City, the island is a place of mystery and superstition. [...]
I was a substitute Spanish teacher for a while and discovered something interesting: “la muneca” is the word for “wrist” in “correct” Spanish – a doll is the masculine “el muneco” – however, since many dolls are female, in colloquial Spanish the gender is shifted to the feminine “la muneca”
i would totally live there!!!
i wouldnt like to have all those dolls staring at me all day
it’s freaky! is the place is meant for some sort of horror movie set. Dolls are really looking scary.
ok I found the picture of the island via the Google link posted above.
Really it doesn’t get much better:
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/square/170979.jpg
Scary, much?
oops wrong link:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/170979