Creepy, barnacle-covered demon dolls found — and now you can own one
nypost.comtold the Houston Chronicle.Other than the demon dolls, the items to be auctioned include: a fiberglass mermaid and a prosthetic leg, a spell bottle, Haitian money, an old bible, a Chinese beer, steamship coal from the 1800s and a message in a bottle sent from Jamaica — all found washed up on the beach by researchers from the reserve.The 2023 Tony’s Trash to Treasure sale will take place on Saturday, May 20, at Port Aransas, with all of the money raised from the sale being donated to Amos Rehabilitation Keep.ARK’s mission is to rescue and rehabilitate sick and injured birds, sea turtles, terrestrial turtles and tortoises found along the South Texas coast and then return them to their native habitat.
According to the reserve’s website, 500 tons of marine debris washes up on Texas shorelines each year. While the majority is debris and plastic, every now and then something a little different is discovered.
The scary plastic dolls captured the attention of HBO’s late-night TV host John Oliver last year, who jokingly called for the disturbing baby dolls to “burn.”“Burn them — burn them now,” Oliver begged in a segment on his show. “I hate those dolls.
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