Eerie pics show Mexico’s ‘haunted’ Island of the Dolls where thousands of creepy toys hang from trees in tribute to drowned little girl
Now thousands of tourists visit the ghoulish site every year to view the bizarre spectacle that is only accessible by boat
THIS is the creepy doll graveyard that ghoulish guests flocks to in their thousands every year.
Mexico City's Island of the Dolls contains thousands of mutilated dolls hanging from trees and can only be reached via a two-hour canal trip.
The spooky site was never meant to become a tourist attraction.
Yet still every year thousands make the pilgrimage to view the sinister site.
The dolls were first left by a local man who wished to fend off the spirit of a young girl who drowned in the nearby waters.
It is claimed she still haunts the surrounding area.
Julian Santana Barrera recalled hearing screams erupting in the forest as he tried to sleep at night.
And to this day visitors report hearing spooky goings-on in the area.
In a cruel twist of fate Barrera drowned in those same water 14 years ago - surrounded by the thousands of dolls he had nailed to trees in a bid to protect himself.
Seeing a chance to cash in on the bizarre setting, his family now run the site as a tourist attraction.
"For decades, many dolls were exposed to the elements and are certainly weathered and decayed.
"Many dolls are sheathed in thick spider webs, some are missing limbs, and some do not even possess bodies, with only doll-heads hanging from rusty wires in the tree.
"Some dolls were home to large insects crawling out of the mouths or eye sockets and some had lice embedded in their hair.
"Visitors leave coins and trinkets at several of the doll shrines found inside some of the Island’s loosely-constructed buildings.";
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