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Haunted Dolls: Annabelle, a creepy Raggedy Ann Doll
In a series of articles, I’m going to talk about haunted dolls. When I was a kid, I loved playing with dolls. But some dolls…well, they’re just plain creepy. The first doll we’re going to discuss in this series, is Annabelle, who played a small part in the hit horror movie “The Conjuring”, which released in cinemas last year. She also appeared in several documentaries, and can be found in the museum of ghost hunters extraordinaire Ed and Lorraine Warren. Annabelle is so popular she’ll even get her own movie this year, “Annabelle”.
For those of you who’ve seen “The Conjuring”, Annabelle looks nothing like the creepy porcelain doll they used in the movie. The real Annabelle is a Raggedy Ann doll, and doesn’t even look creepy. As the story goes, a woman was browsing through an antique shop, looking for a birthday present for her daughter Donna. The latter brought the doll into the apartment she shared with another student, Angie. Both were studying at nursing school, and about to graduate. Why Donna’s Mom decide to buy her grown-up daughter a doll for her birthday, remains one of the biggest mysterious about this case.
Anyway, as soon as the doll was in the house, trouble started up. Donna would come back home and notice the doll had slightly changed positions. At first, the girls thought they were imagining things, or they looked for logical solutions. But as the doll’s behavior became more erratic, they both grew scared of the doll. Sometimes the doll would even be in a completely different room than where they left her. The girls confided in a male friend of theirs, who the Warrens refer to as “Lou” in their account of the events.
A while later, notes started appearing all around the apartment. Words like “HELP” or “HELP LOU” were written on them, and the handwriting was child-like. On top of that, the notes were written in pencil, but there was not one pencil in the entire apartment. Apparently Annabelle had her own secret pencil stash.
Like that wasn’t enough evidence, the girls started laying traps around their house, but the doll didn’t fall for any of that. Even though it still moved around, it carefully avoided the girls’ traps. However, instead of kicking the doll out like any sane person would do if their doll suddenly start moving on its own, they waited until the doll stated oozing blood from its hand and chest until they got truly alarmed.
Instead of tossing the doll out, they decided the bleeding-incident was sufficient to call upon a medium, who promptly visited and decided to make things even worse. According to the medium, the doll was possessed by the spirit of a girl named Annabelle Higgins. She was a seven-year-old girl who died on the property long before it was build. Annabelle’s spirit had connected to the doll when they brought her into the apartment. Then the medium continued to ask the girls if Annabelle could stay with them, and permanently move into the doll.
The girls said yes.
Bad move. This is the moment in any horror movie where any self-respecting protagonist should say “no” and get the heck out of there, but for some reason, never does. As you can guess, things went from bad to worse, to nightmare.
Find out how the story ends here: http://majankaverstraete.com/2014/08/...
For those of you who’ve seen “The Conjuring”, Annabelle looks nothing like the creepy porcelain doll they used in the movie. The real Annabelle is a Raggedy Ann doll, and doesn’t even look creepy. As the story goes, a woman was browsing through an antique shop, looking for a birthday present for her daughter Donna. The latter brought the doll into the apartment she shared with another student, Angie. Both were studying at nursing school, and about to graduate. Why Donna’s Mom decide to buy her grown-up daughter a doll for her birthday, remains one of the biggest mysterious about this case.
Anyway, as soon as the doll was in the house, trouble started up. Donna would come back home and notice the doll had slightly changed positions. At first, the girls thought they were imagining things, or they looked for logical solutions. But as the doll’s behavior became more erratic, they both grew scared of the doll. Sometimes the doll would even be in a completely different room than where they left her. The girls confided in a male friend of theirs, who the Warrens refer to as “Lou” in their account of the events.
A while later, notes started appearing all around the apartment. Words like “HELP” or “HELP LOU” were written on them, and the handwriting was child-like. On top of that, the notes were written in pencil, but there was not one pencil in the entire apartment. Apparently Annabelle had her own secret pencil stash.
Like that wasn’t enough evidence, the girls started laying traps around their house, but the doll didn’t fall for any of that. Even though it still moved around, it carefully avoided the girls’ traps. However, instead of kicking the doll out like any sane person would do if their doll suddenly start moving on its own, they waited until the doll stated oozing blood from its hand and chest until they got truly alarmed.
Instead of tossing the doll out, they decided the bleeding-incident was sufficient to call upon a medium, who promptly visited and decided to make things even worse. According to the medium, the doll was possessed by the spirit of a girl named Annabelle Higgins. She was a seven-year-old girl who died on the property long before it was build. Annabelle’s spirit had connected to the doll when they brought her into the apartment. Then the medium continued to ask the girls if Annabelle could stay with them, and permanently move into the doll.
The girls said yes.
Bad move. This is the moment in any horror movie where any self-respecting protagonist should say “no” and get the heck out of there, but for some reason, never does. As you can guess, things went from bad to worse, to nightmare.
Find out how the story ends here: http://majankaverstraete.com/2014/08/...
