Photos from open Sources In recent years, tourists visiting Mexico City are increasingly offer to run into one small, but very mysterious islet. It’s about Dead Puppet Island located between the Aztec canals in eighteen kilometers south of the center of the Mexican capital. Amazing legend and the numerous dolls found here at every step, make this place quite popular among travelers from all over ends of the planet.
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Legend
According to legend, in the fifties of the last century, the local resident Julian Barrera suddenly left his family and for incomprehensible reasons he moved to live as a hermit on a tiny island that then there was little known to anyone. Those who knew about the island tried bypass it, since it was believed that ghosts live there children drowned in the canals. It was said that many of the children were killed by force.
One night, Julian saw in the window of his hut a small a girl who silently moved her lips as if she wanted something to tell. The Mexican went outside, but the child and the trace caught a cold. But on the ground, Barrera discovered a baby doll without a hand. The man took such an unusual gift and hung it on the nearest branch tree. Since then, the life of a Mexican has become even more mysterious and untidy to other people. Julian began to find with all his might old dolls and hang them around the island. He looked for them in landfills, asked for unnecessary broken toys from the inhabitants of the surrounding villages, exchanged dolls for fruits for children that he grew on his the island.
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Mystical death
Surprisingly, the more dolls appeared on the island, the fewer ghosts of drowned children bothered the locals. The Hermit systematically hung toys on the trees and did not stop to do this until death. All these dolls are still hang there, causing tourists wonder and even mystical fear. It is strictly forbidden to take away toys from here, and such a ban is caused in first and foremost concern for the life of travelers. Is known several cases when tourists took dolls with them and certainly died during the year. Someone fell ill with tuberculosis, someone fell with a horse, and one American was found hanged on her own long hair. At the same time, they say that dolls taken from the island magically returned to him after their death kidnappers.
Most toys hang on island tree branches intact ligaments, however, here you can also find single dolls having especially creepy look. One-armed, one-legged, eyeless, covered mold and moss, they certainly have a depressing effect on any person. Many residents, of course, considered Julian crazy, but there were also those who believed in an important mission a hermit to prevent the souls of the dead in our world and even brought puppet man. As a result, their number on the island exceeds several thousand.
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Night on the Island of the Dead Dolls
It’s hard to say whether ghosts really were here, however that Barrera was a real person with an unusual hobby, – irrefutable fact. In April 2001, a Mexican died at mysterious circumstances in one of the channels surrounding him Isle. And this despite the fact that the hermit was considered a great swimmer. Local residents and relatives of the deceased insisted that The island of the dead dolls continued to look as it had left Julian. In addition to this, a tourist route was made here, which attracts hundreds of thousands of travelers every year. Take away with a doll, as mentioned above, it is impossible in any case, but bring new ones – this is not forbidden.
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They say that in the dark, dolls come to life and freely move around the island. True, not yet been found daredevils, ready to confirm or deny this information. Barrera was the last and possibly the only person spent the night in this creepy place.
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