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What’s going on guys - as per usual, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch
- as we creek open the door, turn on the lights - and shriek in horror at the sight of a walking,
talking demonic childrens toy - and ask, What If The Annabelle Doll Escaped Ed and Lorraine
Warren’s Museum.
Wow, that’s a mouthful.
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Now - if you’ve never heard of the New England Society for Psychic Research - then you’ll
be forgiven, because paranormal investigation isn’t for everyone - particularly the feint
of heart.
But in 1952 - husband and wife duo Ed and Lorraine Warren founded the oldest ghost hunting
group in New England - which went on to spawn one of the widest collections of the alleged
otherworldly - a host of demonic artifacts and items that are cursed and shrouded in
paranormal mystery.
Based in Monroe, Connecticut - The Warren’s Occult Museum allegedly hosts the largest
array of obscure and haunted artifacts - items which were used in extremely dangerous occult
activities and diabolical practices around the world.
One of those items, perhaps the most iconic - is the ancient and evil Annabelle Doll.
And - well, what would happen if that Annabelle Doll suddenly, and with nefarious purpose
- sprung out of it’s glass cage and walked right on out of it’s museum based mausoleum.
Well, let’s find out.
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According to legend, this particular demonic possession was a Raggedy Ann doll that was
given to a student nurse in 1968.
After the doll had appeared to be behaving - strangely, shall we say - a psychic medium
eventually told the girl that the doll was unfortunately inhabited by the spirit of a
dead girl named Annabelle.
Supposedly - as the story goes - the student nurse and her roommate first tried to get
along with Annabelle by accepting and nurturing the possessed doll - yeah, that’s never
a good idea, right?
Eventually though, as always happens - the girls became completely terrified by Annabelle
after the dolls malicious behaviour - who then contacted the Warrens for help - and
removed the doll to their museum after proclaiming it demonically possessed.
And that’s where we’re at right now.
Don’t get me wrong - there’s a hell of a lot of skepticism surrounding this demonic
urban legend - with most skeptics dismissing the Warrens museum as off the shelf Halloween
junk that you could buy at any gimmick store.
Many studies have also shown that the Annabelle legend is an interesting case study into the
relationship between pop culture and paranormal folklore - speculating that the cookie-cutter
demonic doll first gave rise to films such as Child’s Play, Puppet Master and Bride
of Chucky - a frenzied response to the Gothic fear of the uncanny, something not quite human.
In all likelihood, the early Robert the Doll legend is mostly responsible for this - as
well as the Living Doll episode of the Twilight Zone.
It’s a fear that hits a chord, all the way from childhood into our adult lives.
Dolls are freaking spooky, man.
Well - let’s turn up that fear a tad more - and say that on one, quiet September night
- Father Jim, the priest that currently curates the occult museum, finds something a little
out of place.
As he goes about his nightly business of shuffling around the place in his soft, cloth sandals
- Father Jim jingles his keys into the lock, when he notices that - strangely - the door
to the museum is already ajar.
He slowly creaks the door open - when he sees it in the soft, red glow of the museum.
The glass case that Annabelle inhabits, with a placard that reads WARNING: POSITIVELY DO
NOT OPEN alongside a Tarot card of the Devil - is smashed, and the broken glass lays shattered
on the floor.
The Raggedy-Ann doll is nowhere to be seen.
Has she been stolen?
There’s no way - who would want to steal a demonically possessed doll?
But that’s when Father Jim sees it, in the reflection of the broken glass - the small
figure of a red-headed doll standing in the doorway behind him.
The door slams, and the lights go out.
I mean - in all seriousness though - if the Annabelle doll escaped the Warren’s Occult
Museum - then we’d all have to collectively start sweating a little bit.
If the Annabelle doll is real, and indeed a demonic spirit hellbent on violent misdeeds
- then, it’s safe to say that the majority of the Warren’s case studies would also
be real.
While Ed Warren would never live to learn of the vindication of his life's work, Lorraine
would be sitting there with a pretty smug look on her face, a quiet - I told you so,
you jackoffs.
If the Annabelle Doll is real, then the Enfield Poltergeist is real, the Amityville Horror
- Valak the Nun is real - Heaven and Hell are real, the entire foundation and pantheon
of the Christian church is real.
Hellfire, Judgement day, possession, exorcism.
Paranormal Investigation will be big business, and the New England Society for Psychic Research
will be hot property when it comes to saving our mortal souls.
But where is Annabelle in all of this - as she ushers in this new, dark age of demonic
reign?
Well - she’s right behind you - of course.
Just kidding guys - she’d probably be making her way upstairs to Lorraine Warren to give
her a stern talking to for locking in her a box for fifty years.
Unfortunately, that’s all the speculation that we’ve got time for today - make sure
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