Nightmarish Creepy Dolls Wash Up On Texas Beaches

(Mix 93-1) Halloween 2025 may be over, but nightmarish things keep happening along Texas beaches — nightmarish things like ... creepy dolls with barnacles growing on them washing ashore.

Imagine if you will, you're on a peaceful walk on the beach near Corpus Christi, Texas, the waves are rolling in on the beach, the seagulls are flying overhead and squawking, you can almost feel the salt from the water blowing against your skin, and you collect a few extraordinary shells as you walk the shore. Then you run across a doll head or a doll body that the waves are pushing onto shore.

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Discovering A Horrifying Looking Doll

It could be an unsettling feeling for anyone discovering this, but it has been for many Corpus Christi beachgoers for years now. Beachcomber Jace Tunnell has been discovering these demented looking dolls for several years. He says in a recent Facebook video that he can't sleep at night because he's thinking about these dolls with barnacles growing on them.

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For nearly a decade, Tunnell has been collecting hundreds of these dolls, in addition to volunteers and staffers helping out, for the Harte Research Institute, where he serves as a community engagement editor. These creepy-looking dolls float around in the ocean and eventually end up on Texas shores. Trade currents have taken these mystical dolls around the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico.

How Ocean Currents Push Debris Toward Texas

At one point, the doll was most likely a child's toy, but because of flooding, a child mislaying the doll, or losing it overboard, it gets swept out or lost at sea. While it's aimlessly floating around, barnacles attach themselves to these dolls and sometimes in very weird places, making it look extremely creepy. Once volunteers collect these mesmerizing freaks of nature, the Harte Research Institute sells them to interested collectors, and the proceeds end up going to animal conservation groups. (MySA)

Where These Dolls Are Most Commonly Found In Texas

It's a good thing that these creepy dolls are washing ashore and being picked up by beachcombers because they now pose less of a risk to sea life.