The names of the Americans Lorraine and Ed Warren are known throughout the world for loud sensational stories of the investigation paranormal activity. For several decades, the married couple has been actively engaged in the fight against demonic creatures, helping people suffering from evil forces. For this, the lucky explorers received the honorary title of "Ghostbusters".

Many years of experience and a large number of unusual items that fell into the hands of the family led to the idea to systematize their knowledge and tell the whole world about them. This is how the Warren Museum of Occultism appeared and soon became famous.

Let's find out together what this amazing place is, and get to know the brave demonologists better.

family history

Paranormal phenomena accompanied the life of future researchers from childhood. Edward Warren repeatedly found the ghost of an elderly lady in his house in Bridgeport, who comes at night. Her distinct steps and heavy breathing filled the soul of a young boy with horror. Ed's father, a policeman, did his best to reassure his household. He did not believe in ghosts, and believed that everything had a logical explanation.

Little Ed, left alone with his fears, was forced over time to learn how to deal with them. The young researcher read a lot, accumulating knowledge about the other world. Gradually, he began to recognize ghosts, to understand how they can be neutralized. The Warrens' occult museum was still in the distant future, but the young explorer had already begun to take his first steps towards it.

At the age of sixteen, Edward met the lovely girl Lorraine Rita Moran. Having become close to her, the young man learned that his girlfriend was endowed with a unique gift of clairvoyance. She knew how to see the inner glow of people, to feel their aura. Common interests brought the young people together, and a few years later they got married.

The beginning of an unusual career

After serving in the Navy in World War II, Edward entered the art school. However, the talented artist was dissatisfied with the training, believing that he was wasting his time studying unnecessary subjects. After dropping out of school, Warren bought a small used car and began to travel around the country selling his own paintings. It was with travel that the amazing hobby of the spouses began.

Ed was invariably drawn to places where inexplicable and mysterious phenomena took place.

Using the talent of the artist, Warren depicted houses where evil spirits are located, and offered to see the drawing to their owners. The homeowners liked it, and they invited unusual guests to their place. The young researcher carefully examined the estate in search of phenomena similar to his childhood memories. He analyzed everything that happened, gave people helpful tips, tried to exorcise evil spirits on his own.

Professional growth

Interest in supernatural events continued to interest the general public. In 1952, Ed and Lorraine Warren formed the Paranormal Research Organization. A voluntary society united many people various professions: doctors, scientists, policemen, psychologists. Using theoretical knowledge, practical skills, researchers developed new methods and ways to deal with evil spirits.

The Warrens have created a training system to help people detect evil spirits and be able to resist it. In their work, they often turned to the help of representatives of the Catholic Church.

For more than fifty years, the Warrens, with their many assistants, have been engaged in research and practice in the field of the occult. They have accumulated vast experience and have become rightfully considered the best experts in the paranormal field. The couple claimed to have successfully solved over ten thousand complicated cases. From all the houses in which they had to work, the researchers left themselves memorable items with which terrible and mysterious events were associated. The Ed and Lorraine Warren Museum is a collection of unique items, each of which is endowed with dark powers and poses a considerable danger to ordinary people. In order to neutralize the negative effect on others, the priest conducts a church service in the museum every day and sprinkles the premises with holy water.

Unusual exhibits

In 2006, Ed passed away, bequeathing his wife and children to continue his business. Today, his family lives in the small quiet town of Monroe, located near New York. A small cozy house and a museum of the Warren family are located at the same address. The residential building was built in 1960 according to Lorraine's own design. The house is built on seven levels in full accordance with the number blessed by Catholic traditions.

The room on the ground floor, reserved for the museum, is poorly lit, it is cold and uncomfortable. The humid air is filled with a stench, which is interrupted by a mixture of aromatic essences. The room is lined with many different things, including books, toys, paintings, photos, pieces of furniture. The unusual collection even has a piano that itself played at night.

Mysterious Ann Doll

The most famous toy from the museum collection is the Anabel doll. The mysterious story associated with her began back in 1970.

A young girl, Donna, was in college preparing to become a nurse. For her birthday, her mother gave her an antique doll named Ann Doll. The birthday girl liked the gift, and the girl often laid the toy on her bed.

Over time, Donna and her roommate began to observe strange things: rag Annie inexplicably changed her position regularly. Each time after returning home, the girls found the doll in the wrong places where they had left it the day before. Then notes began to appear in the house on scraps of parchment paper. Requests for help were drawn on them with an inept childish hand. One day, Donna found red spots on the body of the doll, resembling blood. This caused the girls to turn to the Warrens.

Demon experts found out that an unclean force settled in the toy, harming others. Magical actions were carried out over her, neutralizing the evil force. Subsequently, the toy took the most honorable place in the collection of the occult. A special locker was created for the doll, which does not allow you to move and does not allow you to touch it. Lorraine is convinced that the demonic power still remains inside Anabel, she is waiting in the wings to be released.

Mysterious phenomena on the big screen

The Warrens created many books about the paranormal, where they described cases from their practice. Hollywood directors could not ignore the mystical theme, so some successful investigations became the basis for creating movies. The Amityville Horror, The Haunting in Connecticut, and The Conjuring are successful film adaptations of some of the most high-profile cases of ghosts and evil spirits.

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Released in 2013, The Conjuring is based on the heartbreaking story of the Perron family, whose members had to face an evil entity and ask for help from American paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. The film brought its creators tens of millions of dollars and gave rise to countless nightmares around the world. "The Conjuring" is a true story about Annabelle doll, which was possessed by a demon. Her image left an indelible mark on the memory of everyone who watched the film, subsequently turning into a pop cultural phenomenon ...

Let me be frank from the start: I hate dolls. And I always hated it.

It all started at the house of my slightly eccentric elderly great aunt. She lived in a large estate with many long corridors, dusty furniture, shabby wallpaper, a pungent smell of mothballs, and rooms each containing at least one old china doll with a cracked face and an evil look. No matter where I was in the room, her eyes were always piercingly looking at me.

As I grew older, I began to reject my childhood fears. I convinced myself that it was stupid to be afraid of inanimate objects, but I still had an inexplicable disgust for dolls, especially old ones.

In thrift stores and antique shops, I always felt uneasy when I noticed a doll or puppet staring at me with its glassy, ​​dead eyes. My entire body instantly froze. I tried to calm myself, but something inside told me that my fear was justified. I became convinced of this after watching the aforementioned film "The Conjuring".

Annabelle is a doll possessed by the devil

As is the case with many cinematic images, supposedly real stories, the creators of the film "The Conjuring" allowed themselves some liberties in the interpretation of the source material. The nasty, rosy-cheeked Annabelle doll from the movie was actually a regular rag Annie.

Raggedy Annie is a cute doll with a triangular nose and red hair. She was originally a fictional character in a series of children's books created by writer (and marketing genius) Johnny Gruelle. After the tragic death of his little daughter (she died as a result of vaccination), which helped him with the image of Raggedy Annie, Gruelle decided to patent his "invention". In 1915, the first toy Raggedy Annie was born.

Birthday gift

The doll that inspired James Wan, the creator of The Conjuring, was purchased from an antique store in 1970 by a woman who was looking for a unique gift for her daughter, Donna.

A woman whose name has been lost to the annals of history decided that a large, old rag doll would be the perfect gift for her daughter, who was graduating from medical school. She brought the doll to the apartment where Donna lived with her friend Angie. The girl thanked her mother for the gift and, throwing Raggedy Annie on the bed, forgot about her for at least a few days.

Over time, Donna began to notice that the doll was changing its position. However, she did not give it special significance thinking she just imagined. Weeks passed, and the strange movements of the doll began to seriously disturb Donna and Angie. One day, returning home, the girls saw Raggedy Annie standing on her feet in the dining room, leaning on a chair, as if frozen in mid-step when she heard the front door open.

Donna later turned to paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren for help. She wrote to them:

“Every morning, after making the bed, I put the doll on the bed. When we returned home in the evening, we noticed that she was not sitting in the position in which I left her. For example, she crossed her legs or folded her hands in her lap. It started to look suspicious to us.”

Sometimes Donna would leave Raggedy Annie on the bed, and when she got home, she would find her in the living room, sitting cross-legged on the couch. On other occasions, Donna sat the doll down on the couch, only to find in the evening that it had moved into her bedroom—and locked the door on the latch! Angie also noticed that something strange was happening to the doll:

“The doll moved around the apartment on its own. One day we came home, and she was sitting in a chair by the front door. Sometimes we found her on her knees. The strangest thing is that when we tried to put her on her knees, she immediately fell. Sometimes we found her in the living room on the couch, although Donna left her in her room with closed door!»

Messages from the underworld

The girls, outraged by this strange turn of events, decided to tell their friend Low about everything. According to the young man, when he saw the doll, he immediately realized that evil had entered into it. Donna and Angie were not ready to believe that something insidious was up.

After Donna and Angie told about the strange Lowe doll, strange messages began to appear throughout their apartment. The girls found strips of parchment paper scrawled with the words "HELP US" or "HELP LOW." Donna recalled in bewilderment:

“She left us little messages. The handwriting looked like a child's... Lowe wasn't in danger. And who is "us", we did not understand. The strangest thing is that the messages were written on parchment with a pencil, but we had neither parchment nor pencils in our apartment!”

Donna and Angie began to think that someone had the key to their apartment, and this person decided to mock them. The girls turned into amateur sleuths and began to mark the windows and adjust the carpets under the doors to find out if anyone came to visit them during their absence. To their great chagrin, all the "traps" were intact, and the doll still continued to walk around the apartment.

Since then, Donna and Angie have come to terms with the fact that they have a "living doll" at home, which, as it seemed, had no nefarious intentions. One Christmas, the girls found chocolate on the stereo that neither of them bought. They realized that it was a gift from Raggedy Annie.

Unfortunately, harmony in Donna and Angie's apartment did not last long:

“Once we witnessed how the figurine, which was standing on the table, suddenly rose into the air, turned over and fell to the floor. None of us touched her. We were actually on the other side of the room. This incident really scared us.”

From that moment on, the situation began to deteriorate.

Doll bleeding

Two months after this incident, Donna and Angie, returning home from school, saw that the doll had again moved from the living room, where it had been left, to the bedroom. However, according to Donna, they were shaken by something else: an inexplicable negative energy emanated from Raggedy Annie.

The girls hesitantly approached the doll and saw that blood was oozing from her hands and chest. This greatly frightened her friends.

Shocked by what is happening, the neighbors decided to seek help from a medium.

Medium

The medium, whose name is unknown, agreed to hold a séance in the apartment of the future nurses. Donna said:

“A month (or a little more) after all these strange things began to happen, Angie and I decided to contact a woman who was a medium.”

The medium held a seance, after which she told Donna and Angie a heartbreaking story about a little girl named Annabelle Higgins, whose body was found in a field on which a house is built, where the girls rent an apartment. According to Donna:

“We learned that Annabelle Higgins was seven years old. Her spirit said that she often played in the field on which the house where we live was built. Annabelle said they were happy times for her".

The medium was unable to establish the details of the girl's death. Donna explained:

“The medium said that since most of the residents of the house were adults and were constantly at work, Annabelle decided to contact us. She felt that we would understand her, so she began to move rag doll. All Annabelle wanted was to be loved, so she asked us to take her in. What were we to do? We agreed".

Angie explained the logic of the decision as follows:

“We thought it was pretty harmless. We are nurses and face human suffering every day. We have a sense of compassion. From then on, we started calling the doll Annabelle."

Little did the girls realize then what a terrible mistake they had made in inviting the spirit of the seemingly innocent Annabelle to live inside the rag doll.

Beginning of a nightmare

Lowe, having come to visit the girls immediately after the séance, and seeing the doll, said that she was fraught with danger and advised Donna to get rid of her.

The girl refused. She said that getting rid of this doll is like leaving a child. And although Annabelle stayed with the girls, she apparently wasn't happy with Lowe's intervention.

Low knew that something was wrong with the doll, but he was not ready to meet her at home. The Warrens wrote:

“Low woke up from a deep sleep one night, panic-stricken. He had a bad dream again. He was no longer asleep, but he could not move. Lowe looked around the room and saw the Annabelle doll.

He recalled with horror:

“I knew for sure that I woke up, but something strange was happening to me. I looked around the room, but didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Then I looked down at my feet and saw a rag doll, Annabelle, on them. She slowly began to slide up my body. She crawled to her chest and stopped. The next moment, Annabelle began to choke me."

The Warrens concluded his heartbreaking story:

Immobilized and out of breath, Lowe lost consciousness from lack of air. He woke up the next morning fully convinced that it was not a dream. Lowe was determined to get rid of this doll and the spirit that possessed it."

Lowe was firmly convinced that the nightly "nightmare" was a kind of warning to mind your own business. But, fearful for his girlfriends, Lowe refused to stand by. He knew that Annabelle would repeat her attempt to get rid of him again.

The next evening, Angie and Lowe prepared for the upcoming trip, looking at maps together in the living room. The clock was about eleven o'clock. Suddenly, the couple heard a strange sound coming from Donna's room. Angie thought someone had broken into their apartment, but Low thought otherwise.

Gathering his courage, Low began to slowly approach Donna's bedroom. He paused at the door, and the strange noises subsided. He opened the door and turned on the light.

The room was empty. Annabelle lay on the floor in the corner of the room. Lowe approached her cautiously. Then he felt a slight tingling at the back of his neck, as if someone was standing behind him. Lowe explained his feelings to the Warrens this way:

“When I approached the doll, I got the impression that someone was standing behind me. I turned around and…”

At this point, Angie interrupted him:

“He doesn't want to talk about it. When Lowe turned around, there was no one behind him, but he suddenly screamed and clutched his chest. When I entered the room, he was lying on the floor, covered in blood. He was shaking. He was very scared. We returned to the living room. Lowe took off his shirt, and under it we saw claw marks!

The Warrens, Donna and Angie claimed that Lowe did indeed have wounds, but, unfortunately, no one thought to photograph them. Oddly enough, the tracks, which, according to Lowe, terribly baked and radiated heat, disappeared forty-eight hours after the incident.

Meeting the Warrens

Realizing that they were dealing with something much worse than the good spirit of a lonely child, Lowe, Donna and Angie decided to seek the help of the Episcopal Church minister, Father Hegan. Hegan came to the girls' house and asked them to explain the situation.

Hegan understood the gravity of their situation, but felt that he did not have enough practice to cope with this on his own, so he advised him to contact Father Cook. Father Cook, in turn, referred Donna, Angie and Lowe to his acquaintances - experienced demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren.

The Warrens instantly bonded with the girls and Lowe. After questioning them, Ed Warren (a devout Catholic and also a paranormal researcher) was amazed that the young people believed the words of a ghost who spoke through a medium. Ed Warren, after analyzing the situation, came to the following conclusions:

“Let's start with the fact that Annabelle is gone! And never was. You have been deceived. However, we are indeed dealing with a spirit. This is indicated by the movement of the doll in space in your absence, the appearance of notes with messages, three symbolic drops of blood, as well as the gestures of the doll. However, ghosts and human spirits are not capable of producing phenomena of this nature. They don't have power."

At this point, Lowe stated:

“It’s a damn voodoo doll, that’s what it is… I told them from the very beginning. The doll is just fooling them. She used them for her own selfish purposes.

Donna, as if in her defense, said:

“It was the spirit of Annabelle that we took care of! How were we to know it wasn't? Looking back, I realize that maybe we shouldn't have trusted the doll so much. We considered her harmless. She never did anything wrong to us…at least until that day.”

After talking to the young people, examining the rag doll, the wounds on Lowe's body, and confirming that no one had ever seen the ghost of a child in the apartment, the Warrens came to the conclusion that they were dealing with a real demon.

The Warrens admitted that the doll itself is not actually a possessed evil entity, it most likely serves as a conduit between the earthly realm and hell.

They also reported that the medium the girls turned to for help was manipulated in order to gain the trust of the tenants of the apartment, which led to the "invasion" of the house.

The Warrens also stated that the demonic spirit played on the sympathy of the students by pretending to be a lost child. According to Ed Warren:

“…this place has been taken over by an inhuman entity. Demonic. Usually, demonic spirits don't bother people. Your first mistake was that you recognized the doll, it was for this reason that the spirit moved into the doll. After evil spirit achieved your attention, he began to exploit you, instilling fear and horror, and even causing you bodily harm. Demonic spirits enjoy inflicting pain. Your next mistake was calling the medium. After the seance, the demonic spirit received permission to interfere in your life.

The three friends were shocked to hear this. However, the Warrens continued to insist that after the attack on Lowe, the demon would leave Annabelle and attempt to inhabit the human, which would inevitably end in murder. According to Ed Warren:

“Spirits are not interested in things, they need to possess people. What happened to Lowe this week was bound to happen sooner or later. In fact, any of you could become possessed by this spirit. Low did not believe in the good intentions of the spirit, so he was a threat to him. In a week or two, the spirit would have dealt with Low."

Rite of exorcism

The Warrens came to the conclusion that in order to exorcise the evil demon from the doll, an exorcism rite must be performed.

They contacted an Episcopalian priest, Father Cook, who was initially reluctant to get involved, but eventually agreed after the Warrens explained to him how dire the situation was.

Ed Warren said that the blessing of an Episcopalian priest is different from the Catholic rite of exorcism:

“The Prayer for the Blessing of a Home by an Episcopalian Priest is a long-winded, seven-page document delivered in a distinctly positive manner. Instead of expelling evil entities from the living quarters, the focus is on filling the home with the positive power of God.”

Unlike most movie versions of the exorcism, the ritual was performed without any resistance from the demonic doll. After the sacred ceremony, Father Cook blessed Donna, Angie, Lowe, and the Warrens and declared that the demon could no longer harm them... However, the Warrens weren't so sure.

Effects

After Father Cook performed the "exorcism" rite, Ed and Lorraine doubted that the demon had left Annabelle, and suggested that the girls remove the doll from the house. Donna and Angie, wanting to get rid of the nightmarish entity as soon as possible, willingly agreed to this.

Ed carefully took the hated doll and handed it to Lorraine. Father Cook (who apparently wasn't entirely sure about the effectiveness of the exorcism) told Ed not to drive home on the highway, as the non-human entity could stay in the doll and try to do something to the car.

Lorraine put the doll in the back seat of the car, strapped herself in, and Ed started the engine as they began the long drive home. Ed heeded the advice of the priest and tried to drive along winding country roads so as not to expose other drivers to the danger that their devilish passenger hid. This decision turned out to be correct.

According to the Warrens, as soon as they got to sharp turn, their car immediately stalled or its brakes failed. They also nearly collided with a passing car. When Ed's patience snapped, he took a black bag, took out a bottle of holy water and sprinkled it on a rag doll and made the sign of the cross. The doll behaved normally the rest of the way.

Arriving home, Ed (for reasons unknown) placed the doll on a chair next to his desk. He said that Raggedy Ann rose into the air once, then fell to the floor in a lifeless state. Everything was fine for a few weeks, after which Annabelle began to do her old tricks.

One day, the Warrens locked Annabelle in a closet and drove away, and when they returned, the doll was sitting on Ed's chair. After that, Annabelle began to move around the house.

Fed up with Annabelle's unnatural antics, the Warrens turn to Catholic priest and exorcist Father Jason Bradford for help. Apparently, Father Bradford did not particularly want to deal with the "demonic doll".

According to the Warrens, Father Bradford walked up to the inert doll, grabbed it, and yelled, "You're just Annabelle's rag doll, you can't hurt anyone!" After that, he threw the doll onto a chair. Ed, in his usual caustic manner, said, "You'd better not say that."

Lorraine was also dismayed by Father Bradford's dismissive behavior. She asked the priest to drive carefully and call her when he got home. Father Bradford called late in the evening and announced in an alarming voice that he had been in an accident due to a sudden failure of the brakes. He and the other victims miraculously managed to survive.

The Warrens decided that Annabelle was too dangerous for the world, so they placed her in a special sealed box - a kind of glass coffin, on which was written: "WARNING: DO NOT OPEN."

The box that the demonic doll is in to this day was left in a locked room with cursed items, which the Warrens seized during other investigations.

Ultimately, the Warrens turned their scary collection to the "Occult Museum", which is open to the public. Annabelle, imprisoned in a glass coffin, seems unable to move, however, this does not mean that she has calmed down.

One day a young couple visited the Warrens Museum. After Ed told Annabelle's story, the arrogant young man, in an attempt to impress his companion, began banging on the glass box and asking the doll to wake up and scratch it.

Ed changed his face and said that it would be better if the young man left the museum. Ed saw the couple leave on a new motorcycle.

According to the young man's girlfriend, after leaving the museum, they began to laugh at the stupid story of the doll. Suddenly, her boyfriend lost control and crashed into a tree. He died on the spot, and the girl spent a whole year in a hospital bed. Many skeptics considered this case a sad coincidence, but the Warrens were sure that the guy and the girl had incurred the wrath of Annabelle.

Ed Warren died in 2006. Lorraine is now in her eighties, but she still continues to study the paranormal. According to her, Annabelle is still in the glass box, and she has never been able to escape from it. However, she somehow manages to change her position and sometimes even growls at visitors who inadvertently speak of her.

Conclusion

What was the Warrens really up to? Most likely, we will never know about it. I remain skeptical about this and most cases of possession, but I must confess that if I were ever invited to the Warren Occult Museum to face Annabelle, I would refuse.

Deep down I know that dolls are one hundred percent evil, and no one can convince me otherwise.

And common sense aside for a moment, I shudder to think that the Warrens were actually right and Annabelle is just biding her time, waiting until she has someone to look after her so she can break free and unleash her evil power on a world that doesn't know anything yet...

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A couple of years ago, a horror film by John Leonetti was released on the big screens. "The Curse of Annabelle". Box office in the United States amounted to several tens of millions of dollars. However, in France, the picture was soon banned from showing, as the audience during the session had unmotivated outbursts of aggression.

Perhaps the reason is that the film is based on real events that took place in 1970, when Ragdoll became a real nightmare for their owners.

Shot from the movie "Annabelle's Curse". The real doll is nothing like this one

DANGEROUS GIFT

In 1970, Donna, who was graduating from nursing school, was given by her mother a rag doll Annie, which she had bought in an antique store, for her birthday. The doll looked quite friendly - wide eyes in surprise, a sweet smile, red hair, and instead of a nose - a triangle of red fabric. In the apartment that Donna rented with her friend Angie, Annie was assigned a place - on the bed of the hostess.

After a while, the girls began to notice that the doll was changing position. In the mornings, after making the bed, Donna sat Annie in a certain position, and when she returned from school, she discovered that if, for example, she left the doll with her arms crossed, then in the evening they were straightened at the seams, and vice versa.

All this seemed strange, but nothing more. The girls got really scared when one day, when they came home, they found Annie kneeling in a chair. Moreover, if Donna tried to put the doll on her knees herself, she fell. The next time, the doll was already on the floor, leaning on a chair. It seemed that her movement was stopped by the sound of the opening front door.

And then notes began to appear, written with a pencil on parchment in a childish handwriting: “Help me”, “Call me”, etc. But the girls had neither parchment nor pencils in the house! The first thing that came to mind was that someone outside had access to their apartment and rummaged through their things.

Donna and her friend set up several traps that they saw in spy movies, but it didn't work. Traps remained intact, and the doll continued to live its own life.

Gradually, the girls got used to the "living doll". It would seem that Annie was friendly, and even sometimes sweets were found in the apartment that no one bought - gifts from the doll.

However, peace did not come for long. Two months later, when Donna returned home, she saw that Annie had again moved from the bedroom to the living room. When the girl approached the doll, she was seized with horror - the hands and dress of the toy were stained with blood oozing from the chest.

SPIRIT SESSION

Frightened friends turned to the medium for help, and she offered to hold a seance. As a result, it was possible to find out that there was once a wasteland on the site of the house in which the girls lived, and the body of a seven-year-old girl Annabelle Higgins, who died under unclear circumstances, was found on it.

The girl told the medium that she was happy in these places, and asked permission to stay, moving into the doll. Donna later said: “We let her. We are nurses and face the suffering of people every day. We have a sense of compassion. From then on, we started calling the doll Annabelle." But the girls did not even suspect what consequences their agreement to leave the spirit of Annabelle with them in the same house would entail.

ATTACK

The girls were often visited by a friend named Lowe. From the very beginning, he did not like the doll, he subconsciously felt the threat emanating from it. The young man repeatedly advised his girlfriends to get rid of Annie, but they only waved them off. And Donna even said that it's like abandoning a child. Looks like the doll also took a dislike to Lowe.

One night, the young man woke up in his apartment, seized by an incomprehensible panic. Looking around, he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary at first. But as he shifted his gaze to the foot of the bed, Lowe was numb with horror. An Annabelle doll sat at his feet.
Then she began to slowly move up the body of the young man.

The next day, Angie and Lowe were discussing something in the living room when a strange sound was heard in Donna's room. As soon as the youth approached the bedroom door, the sounds stopped. Gathering courage, he opened the door and saw that the room was completely empty, only a doll was lying in the corner.

Approaching her, Lowe felt as if someone was standing behind him. But when he turned around, he saw no one. Suddenly an unbearable pain pierced his chest, and he screamed. Angie, who ran to the scream, found the guy covered in blood lying on the floor in a state of shock. When, returning to the living room, Lowe took off his shirt, it became clear that his chest was slashed with claws.

SPIRIT REJECTION

The young people realized that they could not do without the help of specialists, and turned to the priest Father Cook, who introduced them to the demonologist Ed Warren and his wife, the medium Lorraine. After studying the situation in detail, Warren concluded: “Annabelle is gone! And never was. You have been deceived. We're dealing with a demon."

According to the demonologist, spirits do not take possession of inanimate objects, they have power only over people. What moved the doll could not be a human spirit, it was a demon. It was he who moved Annie, creating the illusion that she was alive. And it was he who introduced himself as the spirit of a little girl in order to obtain permission through compassion to stay and interfere in the lives of the girls, and later to move into one of them.

Ed pointed out that this something was an evil entity, and advised to perform an exorcism. It was led by Father Cook. At the same time, the demonic doll did not show any resistance. After the ceremony, Father Cook assured those present that the demon would no longer spoil their lives. However, the Warrens were not so optimistic, so they put the doll in a bag and took it with them.

UNFINISHED STORY

Father Cook, saying goodbye to the Warrens, advised them to drive home by country roads so as not to endanger other drivers, because no one could know what to expect from a demonic passenger. And, as it turned out, he was right. Along the way, the car’s brakes failed several times on corners, a couple of times they miraculously avoided a collision. Finally, Ed's patience snapped. He stopped the car, sprinkled Annabelle with holy water, and made the sign of the cross. We arrived home without incident.

At first, the doll behaved calmly at the Warrens' house, and then again took up the old. She independently moved and rose into the air. Unable to cope with the demon, Ed invited the exorcist Father Bradford to help. He did not behave very carefully, grabbed the doll and began to shout at her: “You are just a doll, you cannot harm!” and threw Annabelle into a chair.

Ed and Lorraine were worried, because Father Bradford was defiant with the doll, which should have led to trouble. And so it happened: on the way home, the exorcist had an accident and miraculously survived.

Deciding that Annabelle was a mortal danger to people, the Warrens placed her in a sealed glass box with the inscription: "Do not open." She became an exhibit in their occult museum.

One day a young couple visited the museum. The guy, wanting to impress the girl, began to knock on the glass box and ask the doll to show her claws. Ed told them to leave the museum immediately. On the way back, the young man's motorcycle crashed into a pole, the guy died on the spot, and the girl spent a whole year in the hospital. And this is not an isolated case of Annabelle's revenge.

Ed Warren died in 2006, and 80-year-old Lorraine continues to run the museum. Until 2014, the doll did not manage to leave the confinement, but she changed positions while in a glass box.

And the last two years in the Lorraine Museum began to occur strange events. Annabelle is the hostess in the mirrors and inspires her with terrible thoughts. Lorraine assures that in my head it constantly sounds: “Death”, “Kill”.

The Warrens have been doing everything for 40 years so that Annabelle remains a mere museum exhibit, but now there is not enough strength, and the doll again poses a mortal threat. Lorraine stated that the museum would be closed to visitors until she was sure that the demonic doll was neutralized.

When ghosts or other supernatural beings refuse to go to another world after death, they remain in our world, scaring living people. Most people believe that only houses, spirits or demons are usually possessed by ghosts, however, they can haunt any object - from jewelry to the pictures.

1. The Dibbuk Box contains an ancient, evil spirit

The Dybbuk locker is a wine cabinet in which, according to Jewish folklore, a restless, evil spirit lives, capable of possessing living people. One dybbuk locker in particular became famous when it was put up on eBay auction with a gruesome backstory.

The story began in September 2001 when an antique buyer attended a private vintage sale in Portland, Oregon. The auction was for a 103-year-old woman, and her granddaughter told an antique lover about the woman's past when she saw that he had bought a plain, wooden wine cabinet. The old woman was Jewish and the only one of the whole family survived Nazi concentration camp During the Second World War. When she immigrated to the United States, she only took a wine cabinet and two other items with her.

The woman's granddaughter explained that her grandmother always kept the closet hidden and said that it should never be opened because it was inhabited by an evil spirit called a dybbuk. She asked that the cupboard be buried with her, but this was against Jewish tradition, and her family decided not to comply. When the buyer asked if the granddaughter would like to keep the locker for sentimental reasons, she immediately refused it, got angry and said: “You bought the locker and you must take it with you!”

The man took the item to his antique shop and took it to the basement, to his workshop. Soon strange and terrifying things began to happen. He received a call from a desperate assistant who told him that the store's lights went out, the doors closed, and she heard terrible sounds coming from the basement. When the shop owner went down to the basement, he found that it smelled very strongly of cat urine, and all the light bulbs in the shop were broken.

The man gave the wine cabinet to his mother, who soon suffered a sudden seizure. In the hospital, she spelled N-E-N-A-B-I-F-U P-O-D-A-R-O-K, and tears flowed from her eyes. He tried to give the locker away to other people, but it was always returned after a few days because people didn't like it or felt it was evil. He began to suffer from the same nightmare, and a little later he learned that all the members of his family who had been near the locker also had this dream. Then he began to notice some shadows in his peripheral vision.

After having to admit that something paranormal was going on, he went online to research the matter and fell asleep at the computer. When he woke up, he felt someone's breath on his neck, and when he turned around, he noticed a huge dark figure running away from him along the corridor. He decided to put the item up for auction on eBay, along with a story that had happened to him since buying the cabinet.

Jason Haxton, curator of the Missouri Medical Museum, purchased the locker at an auction. Later, he wrote a book that chronicled the strange story of the dybbuk cabinet, and in 2012, a horror film based on the book was released called The Box of Damnation.

2. Annabelle (Annabelle), a doll possessed by a Liar Demon


In 1970, a woman bought a Raggedy-Ann-like doll from a second-hand store for her daughter, who was then in college. Her daughter liked the doll and kept it in her apartment, but soon both she and her roommate began to notice strange things about the doll. She moved on her own, often finding herself in another room, although no one touched her. They found small scraps of parchment, although they did not have it, and various messages were written on the scraps in children's handwriting. One day they found a doll standing on her two rag legs.

The frightened girls contacted a psychic who told them that the doll was possessed by the spirit of a little girl who died in the house. "Annabelle" said she liked the students and wanted to stay with her, and they let her. Unfortunately, after they allowed the spirit to stay, paranormal activity in the apartment only increased - one of the friends of the students was injured by a doll, which left many scratches on his chest and back.

The students' patience snapped, and they turned to the famous psychic investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. The married couple soon discovered that the doll was not possessed by a child, but by a demon who tricked the girls into getting closer to them and eventually possessing one of them. The students gave Annabelle to the Warrens, who placed it in a glass case at their Occult Museum in Connecticut. The inscription on the cabinet reads: "Attention: do not open under any circumstances."

3. "Harassed picture from eBay" causes fear and disease

In 2000, an anonymous seller auctioned off Bill Stoneham's The Hands Resist Him painting on eBay. The painting is currently considered one of the most obsessed creations in the world.

The painting depicts a boy and a creepy doll standing in front of a glass door. The painting was painted in 1972 and sold to Hollywood actor John Marley. It was then bought by a California family, after which it was put up for auction on eBay, accompanied by a warning about the dangers associated with owning this painting.

According to the married couple, the boy and the doll walked around the painting at night, sometimes completely disappearing from the canvas. The boy from the picture was able to move into the room in which the picture was located, and everyone who saw the picture felt sick and weak. Small children at one glance at the picture rolled a tantrum. Adults sometimes felt as if invisible hands were grabbing them, while others experienced a puff of hot air as if there was an open oven in front of them.

Even those who looked at the picture on the monitors of their computers experienced anxiety, fear or despair. One person even claimed that his new printer would not print a photograph of the painting, although everything else printed fine.

The painting was purchased by an art gallery in Grand Rapids, Michigan. When the gallery contacted the artist who painted the painting, he was very surprised to learn that his creation was the subject of a paranormal investigation, but said that the two people who first saw and critically reviewed the painting died within a year.

4. The Myrtles Plantation Mirror is home to the souls of a woman and her children.

The Myrtle Plantation is a haunted inn that is widely considered to be home to the most haunted places in the United States, as well as one of the most famous haunted houses in the world. The hotel was built in 1796 on the site of a Native American cemetery. In addition, according to rumors, there have been at least ten murders, and paranormal events are a common, everyday thing.

Perhaps the most obsessive item here is the mirror, which was brought into the house in 1980. Clients of the hotel talked about people wandering in the mirror, as well as about the prints of children's hands on the mirror. According to legend, the spirits of Sara Woodruff and her children live in the mirror. The Woodruffs were poisoned, and although, according to tradition, the mirrors must be hung after death, so that the souls were not locked there, this mirror was not covered, so superstitious people believe that the souls of the Woodruff family still reside in this mirror.

5. Possessed Wedding Dress dancing on its own

In 1849 a girl from rich family named Anna Baker (Anna Baker) fell in love with a poor metal worker. Anna's father, Ellis Baker, forbade her to marry her lover, drove the young man out of their hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania, and doomed his daughter to the life of an old maid. Anna was so angry that she never fell in love with another, and did not marry anyone, remaining angry and disappointed until her death in 1914.

Before her father drove away her true love, Anna chose a beautiful wedding dress in which she wanted to appear before her fiancé. When the wedding was cancelled, another wealthy woman from a local family, Elizabeth Dysart, wore this dress to her wedding, which she did not fail to boast to Anna. A few years later, the wedding dress was donated to the historical society, and then the Baker mansion was turned into a museum. The wedding dress was displayed in Anna Baker's former bedroom. Since her death, visitors have said that the wedding dress moves by itself, especially during the full moon. The dress sways from side to side, as if an invisible bride flaunts in front of a mirror.

Researchers who have tested whether any ordinary phenomena (such as a draft) can cause this phenomenon have not come to a convincing conclusion. No one knows why the dress moves on its own, but many believe that the offended bride, Anna Baker, was finally able to put on the dress.

6. Chairs push people out of themselves, who then feel bad after that.


Newport, Rhode Island is one of the oldest cities in the United States. Founded in 1690, the seaport by the beginning of the 20th century became one of the most favorite summer vacation destinations for wealthy families from America. The Newport mansions are widely known, as are the many ghost stories that haunt the long-standing buildings.

Belcourt Castle was built by Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, a wealthy American politician and socialite, in 1894. There are many testimonies of possessed objects from this posh house, however, perhaps the most famous possessed objects are two chairs that are said to be inhabited by spirits. People who sit on chairs say they feel cold, uncomfortable, and nauseous. Their hands feel like static electricity emanating from the chairs, and many people claim that they get the impression that someone other than a living person is sitting in the chair. Some visitors to the castle say they were violently thrown out of their chairs.

7 Possessed Doll Curses Anyone Who Photographs Her Without Permission

In 1896, this creepy doll belonged to a child named Robert Eugene Otto, who lived in Key West, Florida. The doll was given to him by a servant who was engaged in black magic and who did not like the boy's family. The boy adored his doll and often talked to her. However, the servants of Otto's house soon became agitated in a way that many of them could swear they heard a ghostly voice answering the boy, and neighbors said that they saw the doll moving from window to window when Otto was not at home.

Soon the doll began to play pranks, and the frightened child claimed that he did nothing. Vases were broken, objects were overturned and falling in the rooms - little Robert was blamed for everything, although he looked very frightened and insisted that the doll did all this.

Robert inherited the house and died in 1972, after which the house was bought by another family. A little girl who had just moved here found the doll in the attic and was very frightened of it. She said that the doll was alive and wanted to kill her. In the end, the doll got into art gallery and the Key West History Museum, where it is still on display. Museum visitors claim that they have to ask permission from the doll in order to photograph it. If they do this without permission, the doll will curse them. The museum exhibits letters from "cursed" people who wrote to the doll to apologize for taking pictures of her without permission and asking them to remove the curse.

8Women From Lemb Statue Brings Death To Its Owners

The "Lady of Lemb", also known as the "Goddess of Death", is a statue carved from pure limestone, discovered in 1878 in the village of Lemb, Cyprus. The item dates back to 3500 BC and is believed to depict a goddess of fertility. The first owner of the statue was Lord Elphont (Lord Elphont) - during the six years of his possession of this statuette, all seven members of the Elfont family died under mysterious circumstances.
The next two owners, Ivor Manucci and Lord Thompson-Noel, also died along with all members of their families a few years after they brought the statue to their homes.

The fourth owner, Sir Alan Biverbrook, also died, along with his wife and two daughters. The two sons of Beaverbrook survived, and although they did not believe in the occult, they were so frightened by the strange and unexpected deaths four members of his family that they decided to donate the statue to the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, where it still stands today.

Shortly after the figurine was brought to the museum, the head of the department in which it was exhibited died, although none of the museum's curators admits that the statue may have supernatural properties. No one has touched the statue since the museum worker died, and it is currently enclosed in a glass box where no one can touch it.

Source 9The Anguished Man, captured on video

This scary picture lay in the attic of Sean Robinson's grandmother (Sean Robinson) for twenty-five years, until he inherited it. Grandmother always told Robinson that the painting was evil, explaining that the artist who painted it mixed his blood with the paints and committed suicide shortly after it was completed. She claimed that when the picture hung in the house, she heard crying and voices, and also saw the shadow of a person, after which she decided to move it to the attic.

When Robinson brought the painting into his home, all the members of his family began to experience all sorts of terrible phenomena. His son fell down the stairs, his wife felt someone stroke her hair, and they also saw the shadow of a man and heard crying.

Robinson decided to set up a camera at night to capture the strange events on video. You can watch Robinson's YouTube channel different videos on which doors slam shut, smoke appears from nowhere, and also to see the moment when the picture falls from the wall for no reason.

Robinson decided not to risk it and took the painting to the basement, but he does not want to sell it.

10 The Cursed Chair Of Death Kills Anyone Who Sits On It


In 1702, convicted murderer Thomas Busby was to be hanged for his crimes. His last wish was to dine one last time at his favorite pub in Thirsk, England. He finished his meal, stood up and said, "Anyone who dares to sit on my chair will face sudden death."

The chair remained in the pub for several centuries, and patrons often challenged each other to sit on the cursed chair. During World War II, Air Force enlisted men who served at a nearby base frequented the pub, and the locals noticed that the soldiers sitting on this chair never returned from the war.

In 1967, two RAF pilots were sitting on a chair before crashing their car into a tree. In 1970, a bricklayer tried his luck by sitting on a chair, after which he died the same day, falling into a hole at work. A year later, a roofer sitting on a chair died after the roof he was working on collapsed under him. After a pub cleaning lady tripped and fell on a chair, she died of a brain tumor.
The list goes on and in the end the owner of the pub moved the chair to the basement. Unfortunately, even there, the chair managed to take another victim with it. After a longshoreman sat on a chair to rest after unloading several pub crates, he died that same day in a car accident.

The owner of the pub in 1972 decided to get rid of the chair and donated it to the local museum. The museum displays the chair suspended at a height of 1.5 meters so that no one will ever sit on it by mistake. Luckily, the chair hasn't taken the lives of innocent people since.

Raggedy Annie just so happens to be an honorary member of our family. Ever since the doll, along with a set of books about her adventures ( "Raggedy Ann Stories") Relatives brought my daughter from overseas.

The cute red-haired creature quickly became a favorite in her daughter when she was still a baby, but only had grown up and was reinforced by book repetitions from Annie's life (translated to the best of my modest ability), the doll generally began to live a real life next to us.

The tales of Raggedy Annie and her twin brother Andy are laid-back and full of kindness and love, but the real hundred-year-old story of Raggedy Ann is somewhat more complicated, but quite fascinating.

It all started with the fact that at the beginning of the last century, the daughter of the artist John Gruel Marcela found an old rag doll in the attic. The toy was completely disheveled, there was almost nothing left on the faded face. The girl's father corrected the situation and painted the doll with new eyes, a nose and a funny smile. After some thought, he named the find Raggedy Ann, based on the names of two poems by James Riley "The Raggedy Man" and "Little Orphant Annie".

Marcela genuinely fell in love with her rag Annie, especially after her dad started telling all kinds of funny stories about her. With spirit and enthusiasm, John Gruel began to write down his inventions and draw illustrations for them, and all this with the rest turned into a series of huts that captivated the hearts of little Americans.

Soon Ann's brother Andy joined, and the Gruel family also joined the production of the corresponding dolls. "Clones" of Raggedy Annie spread throughout the US and were a great success.

Unfortunately, little Marcella barely lived to be 13 years old. Despite the official version of death from heart failure, the girl's parents were sure that this was due to smallpox vaccination, and later positioned Regedi-Anne as a symbol of the anti-vaccination movement. However, this did not affect the good and joyful plots of the books about Annie. She continued to enchant and delight young readers, conquering the world.

John Gruell died in 1938, but books about Regedi Ann continued to be published, and Annie and Andy dolls appeared in almost every home. In the fifties, collecting them became fashionable, and now dolls made in the 20-30s of the XX century cost a lot of money. They have a special marking, which indicates the birthday of rag Annie, or rather the day when she was patented - September 7, 1915.

Interestingly, the first versions of Ann had a special candy heart on their chest: a chocolate bar in a shiny wrapper. Now every branded rag Annie also has a heart, but not chocolate, but patchwork or embroidered.

In 1986, the Broadway musical "Raggedy Ann: The Musical Adventure" was created, which has not left the repertoire of The Nederlander Theater to this day. In May 1999, a museum dedicated to Annie and Andy opened, where you could find rare dolls and even see Marcela's children's room, depicted on the pages of Gruel's works. But ten years later the museum had to be closed due to lack of funding.

Part of the exposition can be found in the American national museum games "The Strong", and a few settled in a theme park in his hometown of Gruel Arcola (Illinois). In 2002, Regedi-Ann was inducted into the US Toy Hall of Fame.

The release of the dolls themselves and books about them did not stop. Today, "The Story of Raggedy Annie" has hundreds of reprints in dozens of languages ​​around the world. The only pity is that there is no Ukrainian version among them - it would certainly take pride of place on our bookshelf.