*Altered Voice* He heard screaming, moaning, sounds of torture.
He put up dolls, to keep her spirit happy.
Three times I've been to Xochimilco,
Mexico City. All three of these times
have been trying to find the elusive
Doll Island which is one of the most
haunted spots, they say, in Mexico.
Each time I've failed. This is now our fourth time.
I'm with Exploring with Cody
and Exploring with Josh. I think we've nailed it down
If you see this video...
It means we have.
So! Some mistakes I made in the past.
Going to the wrong port. There's three of them.
Today we're at one I haven't tried before
it's called Cuemanco and you have
to jump on these colorful boats. They're
called Trajineras. Each one has a cool
name
"El Cariñosa" which means like... cuddling?
loving person? Yeah, Loving person.
So! Jump on one of these. There's a guy in the back
Rolando. What's up man? He's gotta push
with a stick for like two hours to get there.
Ok! Adventure update! Right here you see a
floating plant in the water
that's because this waterway is normally
filled with them. They're invasive from
Spain. There's a machine back there
making a lot of noise, it's harvesting it
all up, and dumping it on this island.
This island! If you look close.... has dolls.
But! It's not the real doll island. Even
though there are signs that say,
the truth, the real, the one and only, Doll Island
it's a fucking trick! *Laughing*
The trick i fell for last time! but not this time! We're driving by
them, to hopefully find the real Isla de las Munecas.
Yeah so, we've been driving around and i've been
showing you that the machine was
cleaning out all the invasive plants and
it's really hard for the boat drivers
were pushing with a stick to get through
the plants. It adds extra friction, extra work
and now you can see here... no plants
We're coming into a side alley full of
plants. That tells me there's not a lot of
people to come this way. I'm pretty
sure right here is the real Isla de las Munecas.
- Man, My heart's going a bit fast - Dude, yeah, I can't believe it.
- This feels creepier than the haunted hotel. - Can you see the signs?
- Yeah, and you can see the dolls. - Guys, we've made it. The legitimate Doll Island.
I can't believe we're in Mexico doing this right now.
We just talked to the caretaker.
The Island is closed... It's been closed for a
few months but he is going to let us on
for a small tip. So after 4 attemps, I'm
finally going to be on Isla de las Munecas - Are you happy?
Let's do it
There was a man, and a woman broke his heart.
so he decided to move far far away and
forget about the heartbreak on a small
island in Xochimilco, Mexico City.
His first day he arrived, a girl fell
in the river and she drowned. He tried to
save her but she was lost and they
never found her body.
That night he heard screaming, moaning,
sounds of torture, all night long. He
believed that he had been haunted, the
island had been haunted by the ghost of the little girl.
So for the many years after he put
up dolls to keep your spirit happy.
The crazy thing is, his body was found
after all that in the same exact spot
where she had died herself too. This is
supposed to be one of those haunted
places in Mexico I can see why.
Cempasúchil... the Mexican flower of dead.
I saw these during Day the Dead last month.
They put them on graves. They are everywhere here.
*Background Voices* - Have you seen the shrine? - No where's the shrine?
- Directly behind you. - In the house? - Yeah
We just found a cabin and it's
completely filled with dolls and it
looks like that in the middle is a shrine.
I'm assuming it would be the shrine to the
girl who died
this is Don Julian.
he is the founder of this place, he's
passed away. You know that already and
this it was his favorite doll and the
only doll he named on this entire island of
thousands of dolls
her name is Augustinita, and
here you can see offerings to the girl.
Money, candy, other dolls, games....
All to keep the spirits away.
I guess, I feel like coming from Canada,
that this place is very very unique.
An island like this would probably never exist
in a country like Canada or United States
but here in Mexico, there's a lot of
things... not like this, but similar ideas,
similar stories, of somebody dying and
people paying respects to the deceased
with dolls or coins or candy a lot of
different things
That's what I find so fascinating.
The culture is very fixated on
superstition and keeping away ghosts and
bad vibes.
I'm standing in the middle of the courtyard and
I'm just amazed by how many dolls there
are there's thousands and thousands of
dolls. It took him so many years, it was
something like 20-30 years to be able to
put all this together. To collect them all
to keep the spirit away. Some of them are
so ancient their hair is all rotting
there's moss growing on the dresses. These were
all dolls from the forties fifties and
sixties. Ancient ancient things, covered
in spiderwebs. It's pretty freaky here
I think i can say, and I can speak for us all
that we're pretty stoked we got to go to the
island today. - Stoked and relieved! - Very accomplished
For half the day we didn't
think we're gonna make it.
We were told "No" when we got here, but
anyway we're so happy. We all wanted to go
here for so long.
Thank you little ghost girl for making
it happen.
We've been exploring all week this is
like our fourth spot? Check out the
videos also check out Exploring with Cody and
Exploring with Josh they're my homies, we're having a good time this week.
- Homies forever - Forever and Ever
Experience or possessions
Kick the Grind. Hahaha those guys know the motto.
We'll catch you next week! Later!