History of the ‘Island of the Dolls’ near Mexico City
Who died there and is it haunted? Also, why are there dolls?
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7 min readFeb 14, 2021
In the middle of a lake — Laguna de Teshuilo — just south of Mexico City, there was once an unnamed island with arable land on it.
Don Julian Santana Barrera was born in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City in 1921. During the 1950s, he moved to…
