The movie Annabelle and its sequel are famous all over the globe, and it is absolutely chilling to know they are based on a true story. The movies are a prequel to another horror movie The Conjuring.
Even though the movies are based on a real, demonic doll, the plot of the movie and the real life events are nothing alike. For starters, the doll used in the movie and the real annabelle doll are completely different. In the movie, Annabelle is a porcelain, life-like looking doll. In real life, Annabelle is a Raggedy Ann doll with red yarn for hair.
The real story began in 1970 when a mother purchased the doll as a gift for her 28-year-old daughter. Her daughter, a nurse, accepted the gift and placed the doll on her bed.
She later started noticing the doll changing positions, and she and her roommate would find parchment paper around the house with messages such as “Help me, Help us”. They didn’t own any parchment paper.
Eventually, the doll was changing rooms and, at some point, appeared to be leaking blood. One day, a male friend woke up from a nap and noticed the doll staring at him. He started to feel like he was being strangled and had deep scratch marks on his chest.
At first, they thought an intruder was pranking them, but then resorted to contacting a medium. A seance was held, and they were told a dead seven-year-old girl, Annabelle Higgins, who died before the apartments were built on that land, had possessed the doll. The spirit seemed to be friendly, so they gave the spirit permission to inhabit the doll. Things got worse.
Ed and Lorraine Warren, famous paranormal investigators, contacted them. They realized the doll was being controlled by an inhuman presence who was looking for a human host. The story of the little girl, Annabelle Higgins, was fake. Ed and Lorraine Warren then decided to take the doll to their occult museum.
The doll still resides there and is locked in a box with a warning sign. Once, a museum go-er taunted the doll and died in a motorcycle accident after leaving.
The real story of the Annabelle Doll may be a little different, but it is still incredibly scary and fascinating.
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