Creepy dolls washing ashore on Texas coast: ‘There’s a lot of nightmares out there’
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Creepy, nightmarish-looking dolls sometimes covered in barnacles that grow out of the eyes are washing up along Texas shores, according to researchers who survey the area for sea life.
Jace Tunnell, director of the Mission-Aransas Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Institute, shows off creepy-looking dolls that have washed ashore on the Texas coast. (Mission-Aransas Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Institute) A researcher with the Mission-Aransas Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Institute holds up a doll while surveying the coastline. (Mission-Aransas Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Institute) A mermaid doll. (Mission-Aransas Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Institute) Jace Tunnell hold up a doll found by researchers. (Mission-Aransas Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Institute ) A researcher with the Mission-Aransas Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Institute holds up a doll covered in green marking. (Mission-Aransas Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Institute)
Often, researchers are surveying the coast for sea turtles and other marine mammals when they encounter the dolls on the beach.
"We’re actually doing scientific work, but the dolls are a perk," Tunnell told McClatchy News last week.
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