Bucket List: Visit Mexico's Creepy Island of the Dolls AmazingWorldNews
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Creepy Doll Island Mexico - Secret shrine to little girl who drowned more than 50 years ago (AmazingWorldNews)

Doll parts suspended from trees and strung up across ramshackle buildings have become a sinister attraction as tourists flock to a shrine created by a Mexican artist for a little girl who drowned.

Island of Dolls, is a macabre memorial that first caught the public's imagination when it was discovered by council workers as they cleaned a canal south of Mexico City.

Reclusive artist Julian Santana Barrera had been creating his creepy masterpiece for more than 50 years after finding a doll floating in the canal just days after a little girl's body had been fished out of the water.

Local legend states that the artist became convinced that the girl's spirit was trapped inside the doll, so he strung the toy up on his floating garden.

He later became convinced she was haunting him, so added to the collection to appease the spirit.

Over the years, visitors would bring the artist other dolls to keep the girl's spirit company.

Before long his garden was filled with hundreds of plastic dolls in varying states of disrepair.

Locals claim that the dolls have been heard whispering to one another as their plastic bodies sway in the trees they have been attached to.

Barrera was said to have kept to himself, the artist was welcoming to visitors who were curious about his collection.

Barrera died in 2001 after falling into the same stretch of water where the young child had drowned several decades before.

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