The Island of the Dolls — Xochimilco — The Sinister Past

The Island of the Dolls — Xochimilco — The Sinister Past

Mexico City. A man finds the body of a drowned girl in the canal near his island. Haunted by her presence, he begins hanging dolls from the trees — hundreds of them, over fifty years. He tells visitors the dolls are alive, that they whisper at night, that they move their heads.

In this episode, we trace the fifty-year story of Julián Santana Barrera, the hermit of Xochimilco's Isla de las Muñecas, the disputed origin of the girl he claimed to mourn, and the strange 2001 death that closed the loop on his life in almost exactly the place it began.

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The Hinterkaifeck Murders — Killed by Someone Already Inside — The Sinister Past

The Hinterkaifeck Murders — Killed by Someone Already Inside — The Sinister Past

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Carl Tanzler — The Man Who Loved a Corpse — The Sinister Past

Carl Tanzler — The Man Who Loved a Corpse — The Sinister Past

Key West, 1930s. A German radiologic technician becomes fixated on a young tuberculosis patient who never returns his affection. When she dies, he visits her tomb nightly for two years — then steals h...

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The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 — The Sinister Past

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 — The Sinister Past

Boston, January 15, 1919. A poorly built, rushed storage tank holding 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapses without warning, sending a wave up to 25 feet high through the streets of the North End ...

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The Bell Witch of Tennessee — The Sinister Past

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Adams, Tennessee, 1817–1821. A frontier family is terrorized for four years by an invisible entity that speaks, sings, quotes scripture, and ultimately claims credit for a man's death — the only case ...

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The Cecil Hotel — Room 428 — The Sinister Past

The Cecil Hotel — Room 428 — The Sinister Past

Los Angeles, 1927–present. A downtown hotel that has hosted at least two serial killers, an unconfirmed brush with the Black Dahlia murder, decades of suicides, and one disappearance — Elisa Lam, 2013...

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Unit 731 — The Horrors Japan Tried to Erase — The Sinister Past

Unit 731 — The Horrors Japan Tried to Erase — The Sinister Past

Manchuria, 1936–1945. A covert Japanese military unit built a secret research complex disguised as a water purification bureau — and used it to conduct years of human experimentation on thousands of p...

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The Dyatlov Pass — Nine Hikers, No Survivors, No Answers — The Sinister Past

The Dyatlov Pass — Nine Hikers, No Survivors, No Answers — The Sinister Past

Ural Mountains, February 1959. Nine experienced hikers cut their way out of their own tent from the inside and flee barefoot into a blizzard at thirty degrees below zero. They never come back.In this ...

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