For more than a year, dozens of disfigured dolls have been washing up on the Gulf Coast, in Texas. A phenomenon that intrigues many.
Their eyes gouged out, their arms torn off, their bodies torn to shreds, they have nothing to envy Annabelle. For more than a year, dozens of dolls disfigured by the sea have washed up on a beach stretching from Padre Island to Matagorda Island, on the Gulf Coast of Texas. The phenomenon began in January 2021. While scouring the coastline for sea turtles, scientists from the Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (MANERR) found the head of a sex doll. “The first one we found was a sex doll, it was her head, says Jace Tunnell, director of the nature reserve. I posted a picture of it not realizing what it was. We gained a lot of subscribers after that“, he jokes.
Since then, his team has been regularly collecting the remains of toys lost at sea.”We work, but the dolls are a little extra. (…) The scariest are those who have lost all their hair“, he confides, estimating the collection of his colleagues at more than 30 dolls. Surprisingly, the horrible toys are becoming more and more popular on social networks, to the point that some are now asking to buy them. “What do they do with these things? They could be haunted“, asks the director of MANERR, without really wanting to know…
Where do these mysterious dolls come from?
But the real mystery is not what the curious buyers are doing, but where these strange dolls come from. The most plausible theory is that they escaped from a container that fell overboard, a particularly common incident. As to why they all wash up on the same beach, the UT Marine Science Institute gives the answer in a study: “A gigantic annular current, which stretches from the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico to Florida, catches debris and waste to transport it to the coast of Texas“, can we read in the newspaper Fort Worth Star-Telegram. An all natural phenomenon, with supernatural consequences…
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A doll washed up on the beach
Scientists have already collected about thirty dolls.
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“Dolls are a little extra”
“We work, but the dolls are a little extra. (…) The scariest are those who have lost all their hair”, confides the director of the nature reserve.
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The dolls are very popular on social networks
“What do they do with these things? They could be haunted”, asks the director of MANERR
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It all started in January 2021
While scouring the coastline for sea turtles, scientists from the Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (MANERR) found the head of a sex doll.
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Where are these dolls from?
A toy container likely spilled into the sea.
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Where are these dolls from?
The most plausible theory is that they escaped from a container that fell overboard, a particularly common incident.
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The arrival of these dolls on the beach is due to a natural phenomenon
A gigantic annular current sends the waste towards the beach of the Gulf Coast of Texas.
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A zombie doll
A zombie doll