ANNABELLE HERSELF

Annabelle is a reportedly haunted Raggedy Ann doll. According to Edward and Lorraine Warren, self-described paranormal investigators and demonologists, a student nurse was given the doll in 1968. They say the doll behaved strangely, and that a psychic medium told the student that the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a dead girl named "Annabelle". They say 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, and that they removed the doll to their museum after pronouncing it demonically possessed. The doll was kept in a glass box at The Warrens' Occult Museum in Monroe.

The doll was described in Gerald Brittle's 2002 biography of Edward and Lorraine Warren, The Demonologist.