You may have noticed that we have a thing for spooky places here at the inFeed offices. There’s just something really thrilling about a place with a dark and mysterious past. It’s even better if it’s surrounded by rumors of a curse or a phantom, but supernatural elements really aren’t necessary to give you a case of the willies. Take La Isla de las Muñecas, for example. An island covered with decaying old dolls strung up in trees is pretty creepy on its own — even before you get to the dark origin story.
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Alone on the island, Barrera took the doll and hung it from a tree in order to appease the spirit of the deceased girl. But, at least in the eyes of the man who now considered himself the island’s caretaker, the one doll was not enough. For the next 50 years, Santana Barrera would scrounge dolls from the trash and from the canals, and hang them from the island’s many trees. Some he’d hang whole, others in various states of disrepair — headless, torso-less, or taken apart in other ways.
