Is this the creepiest island ever?

[The Straight Story]

They’re supposed to be a favourite childhood toy, but there’s something about dolls that can turn grown adults into a quivering mess. This isolated island in Mexico is downright terrifying and tourists can’t keep away.

Located not far from Mexico City, the spine chilling Island of the Dolls (Isla de las Munecas) is one of the strangest and scariest visitor attractions ever.

Covered with broken, creepy dolls, the story goes that the lone inhabitant of the island, Julian Santana Barrera, found a little girl drowned in the canal. Haunted by her death, he hung dolls in the trees of the island in honour of her spirit.

Believing it would protect the island from further tragedy, it became his obsession and the entire island is now littered with the spider infested heads, decaying bodies and hollowed out eye sockets of sad and forgotten dolls.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/is-this-the-creepiest-island-ever/story-fnjpja3r-1226849193799

[Turbineguy]

1. That's the great thing about having money

You can do strange, creepy or even insane things. Of course you could support the republican party and do all three.

[csziggy]

2. If you have money, you're not insane - you're eccentric!

That's an old Southern tradition, maybe why the South, especially Florida, is noted for so many crazies.

[rock]

4. And you can support the republican party without any brains!

Let me rephrase that: you don't need brains to support the republican part -- Er, one more time: you can't have any brains to support the republican party. There! Just trying to get it right.

[WinkyDink]

3. "hollowed out eye sockets" of DOLLS? I'd say the writer is weird.

[The Straight Story]

5. I dunno, looking at some of the other photos

They might be on to something