Kayla B. Ruble
18:00 ET, May 1 2022
Updated: 21:27 ET, May 1 2022

CREEPY dolls have been mysteriously washing up on a Texas beach for years, creating intrigue on social media.

For several years, marine researchers have been finding the mangled dolls while doing research on the state’s shoreline and posting photos of them on social media.

For years, marine researchers in Texas have been finding creepy, mangled dolls washed up on the beach

The coastal area along the Gulf of Mexico attracts more trash than other nearby beaches, according to research findings

The mysterious ocean debris has come to light through Facebook posts from the Mission-Aransas Reserves in Texas, which share photos of the dolls they find on their beach trips.

In a recent video of the group coming to the beach, reported by the Houston Chronicle, the reserve’s director can be seen picking up a mangled baby doll, covered in sand and something latched onto where its eye once was.

“Oh boy, a creepy doll. I know a bunch of you weirdos out there like this,” director Jace Tunnell says in the video.

The researchers frequently post photos of their beach finds, attracting fans to their Facebook page who seem to get a kick out of the creepy discoveries.

In an interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegraph, Tunnel said he’s picked up at least several dozen dolls.

The dolls have even become a source for fundraising.

When the sand-filled head of a sex doll washed up on the beach, someone gave Mission-Aransas $35 for it.

The money went to a rescue program for sea turtles, according to the Star-Telegram.

While the unsettling-looking dolls raise questions about where they have come from, the location of the beach is probably more of a factor than some sort of intricate mystery.

The University of Texas Marine Institute, which is affiliated with Mission-Aransas, has done some research into the currents off the coast of the Texas Gulf.

Their research determined that ocean debris, in general, tends to gravitate towards the Coastal Bend area in Texas.

Currents coming within the Gulf of Mexico shove more ocean junk towards the Coastal Band area than other parts of the gulf experience.

Their research specifically compared the debris found in Texas, Florida, and Mississippi.

“Texas coastal bend beaches get 10 times the amount of trash … than any other beach in the Gulf of Mexico,” Tunnell told the Star-Telegram.

This isn’t the first time objects washing up ashore have created intrigue.

For 30 years, bright orange landline telephones shaped like Garfield the cartoon cat washed up along the coast in northwestern France.

Since the 1980s beachgoers had been spotting the novelty phones, but no one was quite sure where they were coming from.

Finally in 2019, according to Smithsonian Magazine, concerned environmental groups got some answers.

It turned out the phones were originating from a sea cave, where a shipping container full of the devices had been lodged.

When people went into the sea cave to retrieve the shipping container, however, it was empty. Meaning the remaining Garfield pieces are already on their way out to sea.

the-sun.com