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| '''Annabelle''' is an allegedly-] ] doll, housed in the now closed occult museum of the ]s ]. Annabelle was moved there after supposed ] in 1970. A supposed character based on the doll is one of the antagonists that appear in ]. | |||
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| == Background == | |||
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| According to the Warrens, a student nurse was given the doll in 1970. They said that the doll behaved strangely, and that a psychic medium told the student that the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a deceased girl named "Annabelle". The student and her roommate tried to accept and nurture the spirit-possessed doll, but the doll reportedly exhibited malicious and frightening behavior. It was at this point that the Warrens say they were first contacted, moving the doll to their museum after pronouncing it ].<ref name="RD" /> The doll remained in a glass box at the Warrens' Occult Museum in ]<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.warrens.net/Annabelle.html|title=Annabelle|website=www.warrens.net|access-date=2017-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160522230945/http://www.warrens.net/annabelle.html|archive-date=2016-05-22|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="usat_'Ann">{{Cite web| title = 'Annabelle' joins ranks of freaky dolls in horror films| first = Bryan| last = Alexander| work = USA Today| date = 1 October 2014| access-date = 2015-03-11| url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/10/01/dolls-creepy-annabelle/15474915/| archive-date = 2015-02-23| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150223083605/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/10/01/dolls-creepy-annabelle/15474915/| url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="glam_TheR">{{Cite web| title = The Real-Life Story Behind Annabelle Is Even More Bone-Chilling Than the Movie| last = Eidell| first = Lynsey| work = Glamour| date = 2014-10-07| access-date = 2015-03-11| url = http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2014/10/real-story-behind-annabelle| archive-date = 2014-10-08| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141008015706/http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2014/10/real-story-behind-annabelle| url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="yaho_Howt">{{Cite web| title = How the Real Doll Behind 'Annabelle' Became Even Freakier for the Movies| first = Joal| last = Ryan| work = Yahoo!| date = 3 October 2014| access-date = 2015-03-11| url = https://www.yahoo.com/movies/how-the-real-doll-behind-annabelle-became-even-99081889057.html| archive-date = 2015-07-15| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150715054605/https://www.yahoo.com/movies/how-the-real-doll-behind-annabelle-became-even-99081889057.html| url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="Travel Channel">{{cite episode|url=http://www.travelchannel.com/video/annabelle-the-devil-doll|title=Annabelle the Devil Doll|series=Mysteries at the Museum|network=]|host=]|access-date=2014-12-03|archive-date=2014-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141126164429/http://www.travelchannel.com/video/annabelle-the-devil-doll|url-status=live}}</ref> until the museum's closure over zoning violations.<ref>{{cite web |title=No trespassing signs, fines used to ward off curious souls in search of Warren's Occult Museum {{!}} The Monroe Sun |url=https://themonroesun.com/no-trespassing-signs-fines-used-to-ward-off-curious-souls-in-search-of-warrens-occult-museum/ |website=themonroesun.com |date=28 October 2019 |access-date=27 August 2021 |archive-date=20 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820120646/https://themonroesun.com/no-trespassing-signs-fines-used-to-ward-off-curious-souls-in-search-of-warrens-occult-museum/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
| ] assistant professor of religious studies Joseph Laycock says most skeptics have dismissed the Warrens' museum as "full of off-the-shelf ] junk, dolls and toys, books you could buy at any bookstore". Laycock calls the Annabelle legend an "interesting case study in the relationship between pop culture and paranormal folklore" and speculates that the demonic doll ] popularized by films such as '']'', '']'', and '']'' likely emerged from early legends surrounding ], as well as from a '']'' episode released five years prior to the Warrens' story, entitled "]", in which the character of the mother is named Annabelle. Laycock suggests that "the idea of demonically possessed dolls allows modern demonologists to find supernatural evil in the most banal and domestic of places".<ref name="RD">{{cite web|last1=Laycock|first1=Joseph|title=The Paranormal To Pop Culture Pipeline|url=http://religiondispatches.org/the-paranormal-to-pop-culture-pipeline/|website=Religion Dispatches|publisher=University of Southern California|access-date=19 February 2016|date=2014-07-08|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303115441/http://religiondispatches.org/the-paranormal-to-pop-culture-pipeline/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
| ==Story== | |||
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| The doll was purchased at a second-hand ] store and given as a birthday gift in 1970 to "Donna" (or "Deirdre Bernard") a 28-year-old ] student.<ref name=IBT/><ref name="Brittle">''Brittle'' chapter 3</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nhregister.com/lifestyle/20141004/real-annabelle-story-shared-by-lorraine-warren-at-milfords-lauralton-hall|title=Real ‘Annabelle’ story shared by Lorraine Warren at Milford’s Lauralton Hall|first=Pam|last=McLoughlin|website=New Haven Register|accessdate=March 11, 2015|date=October 4, 2014}}</ref> The doll is about the size of a four-year-old child. Donna's roommate, "Angie" (or "Lara") said the doll would move on its own, sometimes crossing its arms or legs. Both women noticed that doors which had been left open would sometimes close when no one was at the apartment.<ref name=IBT/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/annabelle/|title=Annabelle (2014)|publisher=History vs. Hollywood|accessdate=2014-12-03}}</ref> The roommates have found notes with the messages like "Help Us" and "Help Cal" around the house in what looked like a child's handwriting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.travelchannel.com/video/annabelle-the-devil-doll|title=Annabelle the Devil Doll|series=Mysteries at the Museum|publisher=]|accessdate=2014-12-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Haunted Objects: Stories of Ghosts on Your Shelf|first1=Christopher|last1=Balzano|first2=Tim|last2=Weisberg}}</ref><ref name="warrens.net">{{cite web|url=http://www.warrens.net/Annabelle.html|title=Annabelle|accessdate=March 11, 2015}}</ref> The notes were written in pencil on ], despite the fact that the house did not have either item. The roommates began to suspect burlars, however it soon became clear the notes were not left by someone entering the house as there was no trace of their entrance. | |||
| Commenting on publicity for the Warrens' occult museum coinciding with the film release of ''The Conjuring'', science writer ] said that many of the myths and legends surrounding the Warrens have "seemingly been of their own doing" and that many people may have difficulty "separating the Warrens from their Hollywood portrayal". Hill criticized sensational press coverage of the Warrens' occult museum and its Annabelle doll. She said, "Like real-life Ed Warren, real-life Annabelle is actually far less impressive". Of the supernatural claims made about Annabelle by Ed Warren, Hill said, "We have nothing but Ed's word for this, and also for the history and origins of the objects in the museum".<ref name="Hill">{{cite web|last1=Hill|first1=Sharon|title=The Warrens: Sorting the truth from the Hollywood myth|url=http://doubtfulnews.com/2014/07/the-warrens-sorting-the-truth-from-hollywood-myth/|website=Doubtful News|publisher=Lithospherica, LLC|access-date=19 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725165047/http://doubtfulnews.com/2014/07/the-warrens-sorting-the-truth-from-hollywood-myth/|archive-date=25 July 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
| One night Donna and Angie came home to find the doll with what looked like blood on its hands and chest. Upon closer inspection, a red liquid suddenly appeared all over the doll. Worried, the women contacted spirit ] who performed a ] on the property.<ref name="warrens.net"/> The medium said the doll was possessed by the spirit of a girl named Annabelle Higgins who lived on the property before it became an apartment complex. She was found dead in a field when she was seven-years-old. The medium reported that Annabelle wanted to live with them in the house and so possessed the doll. Donna named the doll Annabelle after learning about the story. Afterwards, the roommates contacted the Warrens to investigate. | |||
| The doll was also described in Gerald Brittle's 1980 biography of the Warrens, ''The Demonologist''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Brittle|first=Gerald|title=The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren|date=September 13, 2002|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-0-595-24618-2|pages=39–53|chapter=Annabelle|orig-year=1980|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0qscomSDhcoC&pg=PA39}}</ref> | |||
| The doll later became malevolent and attacked roommates' friend "Lou" (or "Cal") after he had expressed his dislike for the "evil" doll. Lou says that one night he awoke to find Annabelle "slowly gilding up his leg" before moving onto his chest and attempting to strangle him.<ref name=IBT/> Lou claimed he attempted to push the doll off, before fainting.<ref name=IBT/> The next day Lou was at the house when he felt a present behind him, and when he sudden was cut and left with seven claw marks on his chest, three vertically and four horizontally.<ref name=IBT/> Although he felt intense pain during the attack, the wounds healed almost immediately.<ref name=IBT/> Lou described the the cuts as having a hot, burning sensation.<ref name="Brittle"/> After the incident, they contacted an Episcopal priest named Father Kevins, whom they knew because he was a professor at a local ]. Kevins referred them to a Church higher up, Father Everett. | |||
| == Character == | |||
| According to the Warrens the doll was possessed not by a spirit, but a ], and had an ], ] the apartment.<ref name=IBT/> His rationale was that the parchment paper and drops of blood were symbolic of ''intent''.<ref name="Brittle"/> At the same time, a human spirit did not have the power to perform some of the acts that Annabelle had. Warren also explained that there were three mistakes made. First, they gave the doll attention, and the demon inflicted pain and suffering instead of reciprocating their care and affections. Second, because the spirit was a spirit of deception (The Father of Lies), it channeled false information through the medium, thus misleading them about the true nature of the occurrences. As a result of the séance, the women had also given the spirit permission for further acts.<ref name="Brittle"/> The Warrens also tell the women that they would have been killed in around two to three weeks. The Warrens had Father Everett exorcise the apartment. Everett took five minutes per room while performing an exorcisism-]. After he was done, he blessed every person at the apartment. Instead of attempting to expel evil spirits from the area, he filled the rooms with the positive power of ]. | |||
| The Warrens' story of the doll served as inspiration for the Annabelle doll character depicted in ], a film series that includes the following: '']'' (2014), '']'' (2017), and '']'' (2019). The producers did not use the likeness of Raggedy Ann, partially due to potential trademark issues and partially to make the doll's appearance more unsettling for a horror film; its appearance has been described as a "terrifying porcelain doll that is disfigured and immediately menacing".<ref>{{cite web | title=Annabelle Comes Home Has A Sly Reference To The Real Doll | url=https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2475687/annabelle-comes-home-has-a-sly-reference-to-the-real-doll | website=] | first=Corey | last=Chichizola | date=June 27, 2019 | access-date=July 28, 2020 | archive-date=July 28, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728213849/https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2475687/annabelle-comes-home-has-a-sly-reference-to-the-real-doll | url-status=live }}</ref> The character makes its first appearance in ]{{'s}} '']'' (2013) <ref>{{cite web | title=Annabelle (I) (2014): Trivia | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322940/trivia?item=tr2975828 | website=] | access-date=June 30, 2022 | archive-date=June 29, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629220413/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322940/trivia?item=tr2975828 | url-status=live }}</ref> and additionally makes brief appearances in his sequel '']'' (2016)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/aquaman-movie-annabelle-easter-egg-james-wan/|title=The Evil Annabelle Doll Makes a Cameo in James Wan's Aquaman Movie|website=ScreenRant|first=Christopher|last=Fiduccia|date=December 6, 2018|access-date=December 31, 2018|archive-date=January 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101051458/https://screenrant.com/aquaman-movie-annabelle-easter-egg-james-wan/|url-status=live}}</ref> and ]' '']'' (2021) and '']'' (2020), as well as in the ] films '']'' (2018) and '']'' (2019), respectively directed by Wan and ''Annabelle: Creation'' director ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3554699/spot-cameo-appearance-annabelle-doll-shazam/|title=Did You Spot the Cameo Appearance from the Annabelle Doll in 'Shazam'?|website=]|date=April 8, 2019|first=John|last=Squires|access-date=September 24, 2019|archive-date=April 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190409134548/https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3554699/spot-cameo-appearance-annabelle-doll-shazam/|url-status=live}}.</ref> The doll also appears in '']'', also directed by Sandberg. | |||
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| Later, the Warrens took the doll home with them. They put Annabelle in the back seat and decided to avoid the ]. During the drive, the Warrens claimed that their car stalled several times and the breaks failed. Annabelle was in the Warren's living room for many years, where she would occasionally levitate.<ref name="Brittle"/> She also has shown as dislike for priests, as she has tried to attack priests who come to the Warren's house.<ref name="Brittle"/> Annabelle is currently at the Warren's Occulation museum. Several incidents have been reported since the doll has been in the museum. A priest claims to have been a near-fatal car crash after telling the doll, "you can’t hurt anyone". In another incident, a couple came to the occulation museum and mocked the doll, and the man also slammed his fist on Annabelle's case. Later they were in a motorcycle crash that killed the man and left the woman hospitalized for a year.<ref name=IBT/> | |||
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| == In popular culture == | |||
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| The Annabelle story is the inspiration for the 2013 film '']'' and its 2014 prequel '']''.<ref name=IBT>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/annabelle-true-story-9-freaky-facts-about-real-doll-haunting-ahead-movie-release-1698694|title=‘Annabelle’ True Story: 9 Freaky Facts About The Real Doll Haunting Ahead Of Movie Release|author=Rebecka Schumann|publisher=]|date=2014-10-02}}</ref> Many details are changed from the Warren's original account of the story. The actual doll is a rag doll, unlike the films which portrays it as a ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aol.com/article/2014/10/28/the-story-behind-the-evil-and-dangerous-annabelle-doll/20985407/|title=The story behind the 'evil' and 'dangerous' Annabelle doll|author=Nancy Lynch|publisher=]|date=2014-10-28}}</ref> | |||
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Haunted doll and fictional character
Annabelle is an allegedly-haunted Raggedy Ann doll, housed in the now closed occult museum of the paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. Annabelle was moved there after supposed hauntings in 1970. A supposed character based on the doll is one of the antagonists that appear in The Conjuring Universe.
Background
According to the Warrens, a student nurse was given the doll in 1970. They said that the doll behaved strangely, and that a psychic medium told the student that the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a deceased girl named "Annabelle". The student and her roommate tried to accept and nurture the spirit-possessed doll, but the doll reportedly exhibited malicious and frightening behavior. It was at this point that the Warrens say they were first contacted, moving the doll to their museum after pronouncing it demonically possessed. The doll remained in a glass box at the Warrens' Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut until the museum's closure over zoning violations.
Texas State University assistant professor of religious studies Joseph Laycock says most skeptics have dismissed the Warrens' museum as "full of off-the-shelf Halloween junk, dolls and toys, books you could buy at any bookstore". Laycock calls the Annabelle legend an "interesting case study in the relationship between pop culture and paranormal folklore" and speculates that the demonic doll trope popularized by films such as Child's Play, Dolly Dearest, and The Conjuring likely emerged from early legends surrounding Robert the Doll, as well as from a Twilight Zone episode released five years prior to the Warrens' story, entitled "Living Doll", in which the character of the mother is named Annabelle. Laycock suggests that "the idea of demonically possessed dolls allows modern demonologists to find supernatural evil in the most banal and domestic of places".
Commenting on publicity for the Warrens' occult museum coinciding with the film release of The Conjuring, science writer Sharon A. Hill said that many of the myths and legends surrounding the Warrens have "seemingly been of their own doing" and that many people may have difficulty "separating the Warrens from their Hollywood portrayal". Hill criticized sensational press coverage of the Warrens' occult museum and its Annabelle doll. She said, "Like real-life Ed Warren, real-life Annabelle is actually far less impressive". Of the supernatural claims made about Annabelle by Ed Warren, Hill said, "We have nothing but Ed's word for this, and also for the history and origins of the objects in the museum".
The doll was also described in Gerald Brittle's 1980 biography of the Warrens, The Demonologist.
Character
The Warrens' story of the doll served as inspiration for the Annabelle doll character depicted in The Conjuring Universe, a film series that includes the following: Annabelle (2014), Annabelle: Creation (2017), and Annabelle Comes Home (2019). The producers did not use the likeness of Raggedy Ann, partially due to potential trademark issues and partially to make the doll's appearance more unsettling for a horror film; its appearance has been described as a "terrifying porcelain doll that is disfigured and immediately menacing". The character makes its first appearance in James Wan's The Conjuring (2013) and additionally makes brief appearances in his sequel The Conjuring 2 (2016) and Michael Chaves' The Curse of La Llorona (2021) and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2020), as well as in the DC Extended Universe films Aquaman (2018) and Shazam! (2019), respectively directed by Wan and Annabelle: Creation director David F. Sandberg. The doll also appears in Shazam! Fury of the Gods, also directed by Sandberg.
References
- ^ Laycock, Joseph (2014-07-08). "The Paranormal To Pop Culture Pipeline". Religion Dispatches. University of Southern California. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- "Annabelle", www.warrens.net, archived from the original on 2016-05-22, retrieved 2017-11-30
- Alexander, Bryan (1 October 2014). "'Annabelle' joins ranks of freaky dolls in horror films". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2015-02-23. Retrieved 2015-03-11.
- Eidell, Lynsey (2014-10-07). "The Real-Life Story Behind Annabelle Is Even More Bone-Chilling Than the Movie". Glamour. Archived from the original on 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2015-03-11.
- Ryan, Joal (3 October 2014). "How the Real Doll Behind 'Annabelle' Became Even Freakier for the Movies". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2015-03-11.
- Don Wildman. "Annabelle the Devil Doll". Mysteries at the Museum. Travel Channel. Archived from the original on 2014-11-26. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
- "No trespassing signs, fines used to ward off curious souls in search of Warren's Occult Museum | The Monroe Sun". themonroesun.com. 28 October 2019. Archived from the original on 20 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- Hill, Sharon. "The Warrens: Sorting the truth from the Hollywood myth". Doubtful News. Lithospherica, LLC. Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- Brittle, Gerald (September 13, 2002) . "Annabelle". The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren. iUniverse. pp. 39–53. ISBN 978-0-595-24618-2.
- Chichizola, Corey (June 27, 2019). "Annabelle Comes Home Has A Sly Reference To The Real Doll". CinemaBlend. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- "Annabelle (I) (2014): Trivia". IMDb. Archived from the original on June 29, 2022. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- Fiduccia, Christopher (December 6, 2018). "The Evil Annabelle Doll Makes a Cameo in James Wan's Aquaman Movie". ScreenRant. Archived from the original on January 1, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
- Squires, John (April 8, 2019). "Did You Spot the Cameo Appearance from the Annabelle Doll in 'Shazam'?". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on April 9, 2019. Retrieved September 24, 2019..
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