Why the Island of the Dolls is One of the Creepiest Places on Earth

30 Morbid Minutes

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8 • 731 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Legend has it that La Isla des las Muñecas, a dark tourism hot spot, is where a young girl was tragically found drowned to death. The dolls that decorate the island serve as both a tribute and a warning. Go to http://dietsmoke.com/shrooms and use code MORBID to get 50% off your first pack of Shroom gummies. Follow us on Social: https://twitter.com/elysewillems https://twitter.com/JessicaVasami Click here for the audio version: https://link.chtbl.com/30morbidminutes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	This podcast covers mature, intense, morbid, and sometimes just scary stuff. Listener discretion is advised.
0:36.6	A head on a spike, an arm hanging from a branch,
0:40.2	eyes that may or may not be following you through the trees. While they may all be made of
0:45.4	plastic, these are the first things you see when visiting the island of the dolls, considered
0:50.8	one of the scariest places on Earth. Welcome to 30 Morbid Minutes.
1:08.6	This is the podcast where we explore topics of a morbid, macab, dark, and downright grizzly nature and sometimes go on a little dark tourism journey, which we are doing today.
1:19.2	I'm Elise Willems.
1:20.3	I'm Jessica Vasami.
1:21.6	On a regular day, sometime in the 1950s, Julian Santana Barrera went out to care for the fertile land that was his island,
1:29.8	alone as he usually was. Which in more recent years, he insisted upon being. Hulian preferred to
1:35.8	tend to the vegetables and the lush ecological patch of land that his family owned in the middle of
1:41.1	Sosci Milko. Of those who knew Hulian, some speculated that this type of isolation was for spiritual reasons.
1:47.4	Others thought he was spiraling and developing strange habits by nature of being a hermit,
1:52.9	possibly even losing his grip on reality.
1:55.3	We may never know what was going on with Julian or his motivation, but we do know where his story goes. One day while walking the shoreline,
2:04.6	Julian peered into one of the many canals that crisscrossed the island terrain. And he saw something
2:10.1	floating in the water, tangled in the canal's reef of water lilies. He could make out what
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