Dolls are one of the most favorite toys for children, but when the matter is related to ghosts, it seems to be the most scary one. There is a small island named "La Isla de la Munecas" in Xochimilco canals, 17 miles south of Mexico City but now it is known as "The Island Of dolls". This island will look like a set prepared for a horror movie but there is a deep truth behind this island. The canals of Lake Xochimilco were initially created along with artificial agricultural plots called chinampas. This island is known as floating garden, Which is called Chinampa in Mexico. The specialty of this island is that hundreds of scary and broken dolls are hanging on this island. Here you will see only ghostly dolls. From trees to land and water, dolls are everywhere. This island came into view in 1990 when the Government of Mexico started the cleaning work of Xochimilco canals and some of their employees reached this island while cleaning. Everyone was shocked by thinking that how such dolls have reached this island and who put them here and what is the reason behind this. There is a very interesting story behind this. This story belonged to a man named Santana Barrera. Santana Barrera was a loner, who was rarely seen in most of Xochimilco. Santana Barrera had come to this island to live a lonely life. It is said that Santana Barrera discovered a little girl drowned in mysterious circumstances in the canals. He also found a doll floating nearby and, assuming it belonged to the deceased girl, hung it from a tree as a sign of respect. After some days, he began to hear whispers, footsteps, and anguished wails in the darkness or even in his hut. Due to fear, he spent the next fifty years hanging more and more dolls all over the island in an attempt to appease what he believed to be the drowned girl’s spirit. Gradually, the counting of dolls have increased in hundreds. At the time of the cleaning of the Xochimilco canals in 1990, it came into the sight of people, it was reported in the media and the people began to come here.
In 2001, Santana Barrera was also found dead in the water at the same place where that little girl was drowned. How he died, it is a mystery even today, because he lived alone on that island at night. But because his body was found in the place where the little girl was drowned, people began to say that the soul of that little girl is the cause of his death. Now Dolls Island has become a tourist destination, people come here to roam, but this island remains deserted at night. The dolls are still on the island. This island was featured on the Travel Channel show Ghost Adventures and the Amazon Prime show Lore (TV series). This place is the center of attraction for those people who always remain curious for finding real Haunted Places.
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