The Mystery Of Doll Island In Mexico Which Is Occupied By Thousands Of Spirit Dolls, Is Believed To Be Full Of Curses

The mystery island of Mexico which is inhabited by thousands of spirit dolls (Instagram/@buzzverseindia)

JAKARTA - There is an island containing a variety of dolls in Mexico. Reportedly, this island is one of the most mysterious and scary places in the world, namely Doll Island or La Isla de Las Munecas.

On Doll Island, which has one hectare of land, it houses three huts filled with a collection of rotten dolls or spirit dolls. Local residents vowed to hear a shadow speaking and a floating ghost on Doll Island. They believe Doll Island is a curseful place.

"During Cortez's time, many people fled to Xochimilco and hid in the canal," said Gerardo Ibarra, co-founder of Ruta totaling, quoted from the New York Post page on Friday, October 4, 2024.

"Many of these people are women and children hiding from conquests. And many women committed suicide, were arrested and raped by the Spanish side at the time," he continued.

For centuries, Doll Island has been believed to be a place to disappear. Amazingly, this place is within the city limits, one of which is the world's largest metropolitan city. Mexico was originally an island on a volcanic caldera lake surrounded by Sierra Madre mountains.

The Aztec Empire (1300 BC 1521 BC) was the first to start developing the area, building an artificial island system, called Chinampas, and a canal system for farmers to navigate it.

After the Aztecs were defeated in the Spanish Aztec war (1591-1521), Chinampas and canal systems still existed. This is an integral part of local life and is a UNESCO world heritage site.

Sometimes, the environment is also used as a haven for Mexican revolutionarys and religious practitioners who may no longer be liked. Some of them ended up being killed or drowned on this canal.

In the 50 years ago, the water was so clear that it could look to the ground. In the 1950s, Julian Santana Barrera found the body of a young girl at the bottom of the waterway right outside her door.

"The girl was swimming with her sister or friends, the current was heavy and she drowned," said Rogelio Sanchez Santana, 'the current guard of the doll and Barrera's great-grandson.

According to him, after his uncle found the body, the problem began to occur.

"Roh the girl lives in sadness," said Rogelio.

In the morning Julian begins to see ghosts, and one day wakes up and finds all his plants dead. He tried various ways to repair his plants, but it didn't work because the spirit damaged him. He became even more afraid.

Rogelio's grandfather built an altar in his one-room cabin on the island where he and his wife live, in the hope of calming the spirit.

"But the spirit still came. So he started collecting dolls as a way to protect himself from the spirit." said Rogelio.

Over the next half century, Barrera collected more than 1,000 dolls, part of a trash can in the main city of the area. Meanwhile, some of them are gifts from neighbors and visitors.

Everything is still there, rotting, sometimes clamped and really scary. Wherever you look, there are lots of dirty dolls that are pinned, and hung along the tree.

Rogelio said he sometimes saw'some shadows at night with the light of the moon'. But other visitors claimed to have seen the doll's eyes move and hear them speak.