One doll in a tree, however, was not enough to ease Santana’s troubled mind.
He continued to fish dolls and doll parts out of the canal whenever he saw them, hanging each one carefully on the island.
There weren’t enough canal dolls to satisfy Santana’s tortured spirit, so he began scavenging more from trash heaps on his rare trips away from home.
Later in life, he began trading his home-grown fruits and vegetables for dolls.
Many stories have been associated with the island over the years
A popular tale was that Don Julian had gone mad and believed the dolls to be real children who he pulled from the canal and tried to revive.