Open Post: Hosted By The Creepy Dolls Washing Up On Shore In Texas
If you’re a person who gets nervous around the water and has a fear of dolls, may I suggest you NEVER go to this Texas beach. Researchers whose job it is to comb a 40-mile stretch of beach in the Texas Gulf Coast have been finding loads of disturbing dolls washing ashore. Many figures have lost their hair and feature barnacles coming from various orifices, resulting in Lovecraftian nightmares that are one sandcastle away from traumatizing a happy beachgoer. Move over, Jaws. We’ve got another terrifying reason to never go to the beach!
The Mission-Aransas Reserve team monitors the beach for research purposes and to “ensure that coastal management decisions benefit flora and fauna, water quality, and people.” Discarded baby dolls don’t typically benefit fish and crabs, so the researchers have been collecting them to sell at their fundraising events. Why do these abominations keep surfacing on this particular beach? USA Today explains the story:
Along a 40-mile stretch of beach on Texas’ coastal bend, from North Padre Island to Matagorda Island, researchers typically find 10 times the amount of trash they see on other other Gulf of Mexico beaches, Jace Tunnell, director of the Mission-Aransas Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Institute, told the Star-Telegram.
Tunnell said the disproportionate amount of trash is caused by a “loop current” that extends from the Yucatan Peninsula to Florida and pushes debris toward the Texas Gulf.
Tunnell sells the dolls at a yearly fundraising auction and has collected 30 dolls since he began to keep count of them. The institute began to grow an online following after he posted a photo to the Reserve’s Facebook page of a sex doll discovered on the beach.
Someone later bought the sex doll’s head for $35 and the proceeds were donated to a sea turtle rescue program, Tunnell added.
Of course, a sex doll is what brought attention to our dying waters and seas! What is it that T.S. Eliot wrote, “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper”? Well, someone was doing some banging here! Imagine living next to a trash magnet coastline and finding an adult doll head covered in sand. This beach is like the Valley of the Dolls but instead of glamorous women with barbiturate addictions, it’s actual dolls with creatures bursting forth from their eye sockets. Thankfully, organizations like Mission-Aransas are working hard to protect the coast and use our discarded junk to support their research. They are the thin line between us and those haunted dolls!
You can check out more of their finds in their albums on Facebook…if you daaaaaaaaaaare!
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