Annabelle (doll)
Haunted doll and fictional character
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Key Takeaways
- Annabelle is a Raggedy Ann doll that is claimed to be haunted.
- Academics and science writers have dismissed their claims as myth and folklore.
- History According to the Warrens, they were given the doll in the 1970s by a 28-year-old student nurse named Donna from Hartford, Connecticut who claimed the doll could move by itself and exhibited malicious and frightening behavior.
- The Warrens claimed the doll was demonically possessed and subsequently placed it in a display box at their Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut.
Annabelle is a Raggedy Ann doll that is claimed to be haunted. According to paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, the doll frightened its owner, so it was moved to their (now closed) museum in Connecticut during the 1970s. Academics and science writers have dismissed their claims as myth and folklore. A character based on the Warrens' story is one of the antagonists that appear in the fictional Conjuring Universe.
History
According to the Warrens, they were given the doll in the 1970s by a 28-year-old student nurse named Donna from Hartford, Connecticut who claimed the doll could move by itself and exhibited malicious and frightening behavior. The Warrens said a psychic medium had told the student nurse and her roommate that the doll had been taken over by the spirit of a dead six-year-old girl named Annabelle Higgins. The Warrens claimed the doll was demonically possessed and subsequently placed it in a display box at their Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut.
Over time, the Warrens publicized various claims about Annabelle: supposedly the doll inflicted "psychic slashes" that drew blood from victims, caused a priest who insulted the doll to run his car into a tree, and stabbed a homicide detective, forcing him into early retirement.
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