Once upon a time, on a small island in Teshuilo Lake, between Xochimilco and Mexico City, three young girls were playing. As one of them drowned, the area soon became known as a haunted spot and few trespassed the land.

Sometime in the 1950s, a loner named Julian Santana Barrera chose this tiny island to live on. Being visited by the ghost of the girl who drowned there long ago - and by some other bad spirits too - he started collecting dolls he found in the trash.

With these dolls, Julian wanted to make the girl who drowned happy again, and also these dolls could keep the bad spirits away. He brought allo the old discarded dolls he could find to the island as an offering, and tied them to the trees, in addition to a special altar he constructed for the spirit child.