People in Texas keep finding terrifying baby dolls with creepy, barnacle-filled eye sockets along a 40-mile stretch of beach. Take a look.

Aditi Bharade
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  • Creepy, disfigured dolls keep washing up on a 40-mile stretch of beach in Texas.

  • Some of the nightmarish dolls have barnacle-filled eye sockets, missing limbs, and discolored bodies.

  • The dolls will be auctioned off, and the funds raised will go to protecting sea turtles and birds.

Nightmare-inducing dolls keep washing up along a stretch of beach in Texas, and the people who found them are now planning to auction them off to raise funds to protect marine life.

Numerous baby dolls with disfigured bodies, barnacle-filled empty eye sockets, and missing limbs, have been spotted along a 40-mile stretch on Mustang Beach in south Texas, per the Houston Chronicle. 

Researchers with the Mission-Aransas Reserve, a state-affiliated organisation that protects coastal areas in Texas, started coming across these dolls over the past year when they were looking for stranded sea turtles on the beach.

A clip from a local TV outlet, KIIITV News , said that 30 of such dolls had been found to date.

Apart from the dolls, the researchers also found an old prosthetic leg, a bottle with a message from Jamaica, an old Bible, and more.

A barnacle-covered doll found in Texas.
A barnacle-covered doll found in Texas.Jace Tunnell, Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve

Jace Tunnell, the director of Mission-Aransas Reserve, told Insider that the items wash up from far-flung places, like west Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and Mexico.

"We believe the dolls are from countries that put their trash in rivers or directly into the ocean and then get caught up in the ocean currents that push the dolls up on the Texas coast," Tunnell said.

Another freaky doll.
Another freaky doll.Jace Tunnell, Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve.

While some dolls are completely crusted with a barnacle shell, others have wild marine-life stuck to them, like seashells and moss.

Tunnell told Insider that the freaky finds will be auctioned off at the 2023 Tony's Trash to Treasure sale at Robert's Point Park in Port Aransas, Texas, on May 20.

All funds collected from the auction will go to the Amos Rehabilitation Keep, which rehabilitates sea turtles and marine birds, he said.

One of the other nightmarish dolls found in Texas.
One of the other nightmarish dolls found in Texas.Jace Tunnell, Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve

The dolls have been surfacing on the beach for more than a year now. They freaked out "Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver, who did a segment on them last July, begging people to "burn them — burn them now."

 

But if you want to own a creepy doll, you know where to find them.

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