They bought her toys, clothes, and jewelry. The young nurses treated Annabelle like a little girl. Thus, Warren concluded that Annabelle was a demon preying on the young women’s sympathy. According to Ed Warren, God doesn’t allow the spirits of children to possess dolls. There, they learned a little girl named Annabelle was killed in a car accident right outside of their apartment. So they checked for spirits in Annabelle by holding a seance. They believed there was a spirit in Annabelle, but wanted to confirm it.

Intrigued, not frightened, the young women took Annabelle to a medium. They placed themselves from Annabelle’s sides to the top of the kitchen table. On the fourth or fifth day, the noticed Annabelle’s arms starting to move. They’d brought Annabelle to the kitchen for breakfast as a gag before their shift. Even though she was older, she loved the doll and kept it.Ī few nights later, Annabelle’s owner and her roommate noticed some strangeness. In 1971, a 28-year-old nurse in Hartford, CT got the 3-foot Raggedy Ann doll for Christmas from her mother. The real Annabelle became possessed when she was used in a seance. Next time you see your beloved childhood doll’s big, painted eyes staring at you, try not to think of the identical ones at the Occult Museum in Connecticut. The yarn hair, triangle nose, painted face, and freckles are all there.

You’ll never look at your childhood Raggedy Ann doll the same way because Annabelle is a Raggedy Ann in real life. Ed and Lorraine Warren would agree, and caution us about taking in strange dolls. Sometimes, the truth is scarier than fiction and we think the real story of Annabelle is horrifying. Annabelle was a cameo in the first Conjuring movie but soon got her own spinoff. While The Amityville Horror and The Conjuring films are frightening, nothing stood out to audiences quite like the haunted porcelain doll, Annabelle.

They were active exorcists for over 50 years until Ed Warren’s passing in 2006. The same demonology couple featured in The Conjuring franchise was in charge of banishing the demon in the house in Amityville, NY. By: Carmen MacBeth Is the Annabelle doll real? The scariest real-life revelationsĮd and Lorraine Warren became household names outside of paranormal circles after The Amityville Horror came out.

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