If you know Ed and Lorraine Warren, you must have heard about the Annabelle doll too. The rag toy was one of the most dangerous haunted objects the Warrens studied. Demonologists in the 1970s at all costs wanted to help two young nurses, whom Annabelle turned their lives into a nightmare. This is the story of a demon doll that will make you sleepless in the evening.
Ed Warren married Lorraine in 1945. The couple immediately became fascinated by each other, especially since the young people had similar interests and paranormal abilities. Ed experienced inexplicable supernatural phenomena from an early age, and Lorraine was able to communicate with the spirits of the dead. Mr. and Mrs. Warren founded the New England Society for Psychological Research in 1952 to help people under attack by supernatural forces. The married couple conducted séances, cooperating, inter alia, with exorcists and the church. They have often solved puzzles that the average person finds inexplicable.
The demonologists had their hands full. More people who were witnesses of supernatural phenomena came to them. Some desperately asked the Warrens for help, unable to cope with the evil around them. Ed was for a long time the only secular demonologist the Vatican recognized. Lorraine was a true medium, so she had the gift of clairvoyance and communication with the spirits of her ancestors. Their private Museum of Occultism often received various exhibits related to matters investigated by the couple. The Warrens shut the museum on four triggers to make sure all things were blessed and safe from the rest of the world. The Annabelle ragdoll has become the most secure item in the museum's basement. The Warrens locked it in a glass case with the words "Don't open it!"
In 1968, a certain Donna, a nurse from England, received an unusual gift for her birthday. Her mother handed her a rag doll named Raggedy Ann. Even though the toy was not very pretty, Donna decided to keep it. The woman said that keeping the doll at home would certainly please her mother. But she had no idea where to put her. It was too big on the desk, it kept falling from the windowsill, and there was no room on the furniture. So Donna set her down on the bed in her room. When she had put together Rag Ania, she called Angie - her roommate and friend from work. Angie was scared of the rag toy at first but finally decided that she wasn't sleeping in this room. Thus, the doll lived under a common roof with the nurses.
The next days passed calmly. After a month, however, it started to feel… strange at home. One evening, Donna, returning from work, noticed that the doll was not sitting on the bed as she had left it. In the morning, the toy was leaning against the pillow, and now her head was resting on the mattress. Donna checked the window in the room. It was closed. The woman took it as an accident and forgot about the case. A few days later it happened again, but Donna turned a blind eye again. Day by day, however, it started to get more and more disturbing. Every time Donna came back from work, Rag Ania was sitting differently. Donna told her friend from the hospital about the whole situation. The women decided to check what is really going on with the doll. The next day they left the toy with their arms crossed. After returning from work, they discovered that Rag Ania… spread her hands.
Later it got worse. The doll began to change not only its position but also its position. She no longer sat on the bed, but for example on a chair and on the floor. She wandered between the roommates' rooms, which scared her friends a lot. The terrified nurses decided to check if there was a burglar in their apartment from time to time. They have set a trap. They fastened locks on the windows and placed slippery rugs on the floor. If someone stood on one, they would immediately move it along with the door. Donna and Angie would then know that someone was making fun of them. The trap did not work. Szmaciana Ania kept changing her location.
One day the nurses noticed that the doll began to hover above the bed. After a few seconds of levitation, it fell violently to the floor. When they picked up the toy, they discovered there were traces of blood on the doll's hand and body. It was too much. Donna called a psychic - a stranger woman in the area who allegedly investigated paranormal phenomena. Upon arrival, the woman explained to the terrified nurses that 7-year-old Annabelle Higgins had once lived in their rented house. The girl died here in mysterious circumstances, and her spirit wandered from room to room. Annabelle chose Szmaciana Ania as a link with the human world. The story of the girl's lonely spirit touched Donna and Angie. They decided that the spirit of Annabelle - whose name they later christened the doll - would remain with them. The women promised themselves that they would try to live in harmony with the doll. And perhaps she will repay them for their concern and will not scare them anymore. Donna and Angie, however, did not know how wrong they were.
The nurses' decision did not like Lou, Donna, and Angie's friend. He found that living with a possessed doll was not a wise idea at all. The man suggested his friends throw out Rag Ania, who threatened their life. He did not suspect that the doll actually had terrible intentions towards her roommates.
One day Lou came to Angie and Donna to study the itinerary of their weekend trip with her friends. The three of them sat in Angie's room, planning the upcoming expedition. At one point they heard a noise coming from Donna's room. Lou ran out of the room feeling as if someone had broken into the apartment. When he entered Donna's apartment, everything suddenly fell silent. The man turned on the light and noticed Annabelle lying on the floor. At the same moment, Lou collapsed to the ground, feeling a shooting pain in his chest. The nurses ran to him right away. When they turned the man on his back, it turned out that his shirt was torn. The clothes soaked blood faster and faster. It turned out that the man's chest was cut. There were clear traces of… claws on it. Lou never came back to his friends' apartment again. Was that what Annabelle wanted?
Nobody could handle the possessed doll. Police, doctors, priests from the local church. Nobody. The nurses found out about the Ed and Lorraine Warren Association for Psychological Research. They decided to contact the couple and ask for quick help. A pair of demonologists came to them the same day. On the spot, the Warrens stated that the doll was not haunted by an ordinary ghost. What he lived with the nurses was much worse than he was. Donna and Angie shared an apartment with a… demon. It was he who moved the doll, making the nurses believe that the toy was alive. He took advantage of the naivety of women who believed in the story about the deceased Annabelle. Their minds became open, and a formidable demon took advantage of this and moved in with the nurses.
The Warrens called an exorcist they knew. The latter, in turn, performed exorcisms for several hours, which expelled the demon from the apartment of young women. He also blessed every corner of the house so that nothing bad would happen in it again. The Warrens took the doll with them just in case and put it in a padlocked room in the basement. In order not to pose a threat, they locked Rag Ania in a glass case.
The story seems incredible, but it really happened. The possession of the Raggedy Ann rag doll fascinated horror film directors to such an extent that, based on this story, they already made three parts of Annabelle - a series of horror films inspired by the events of 1968. How much truth was smuggled into suspenseful films about Annabelle? Find out for yourself by playing one of the three horror movies about the demon doll.
Bibliography:
- Gerald Brittle: Ed and Lorraine Warrens. Demonologists, Esprit Publishing House, Krakow 2016
- Robert David Chase: The Visitation. True Stories, Replika Publishing House, Poznań 2019
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