You're rummaging through a garage sale one Saturday afternoon with your family when suddenly
you hear your younger sister squeal.
In a panic, you dash into the dimly lit garage only to find your sister cooing with delight
as she looks on at a rather strange and old looking porcelain doll.
The doll looks like she was made half a century ago, but your little sister doesn't care-
she wants it and she wants it now.
Caving, your mom decides that sure, it's creepy, but it's also surely an antique and who knows,
maybe it's valuable?
Taking the doll home you can't help but feel like everytime you look over your shoulder
at the back seat, it seems to be looking back at you- but that's impossible, it's just a
stupid doll, the car's jostling on the bumpy road probably just knocked her eyes that way.
But then, later that night as you're laying in bed you hear your bedroom door open with
an agonizingly slow squeak... you know you have to roll over and look to see what's there
at your door but part of your panicking mind already knows and doesn't want to see.
At last, you roll on your back and look over and there she is- Annabelle, the demon doll
from hell, and she has a smile just for you.
Hello and welcome to another episode of The Infographic Show's You Versus, today we're
putting you up against the most infamous possessed doll in history: Annabelle.
Popularized by the film The Conjuring, and subsequent solo films, the real Annabelle
is a doll that serves as the host for a demonic entity, accidentally allowed to possess the
doll by two women in their late twenties back in the 1970s.
Received as a birthday gift, Annabelle's owner would discover the doll in different places
around the house, and soon started finding pieces of parchment upon which were written
the words “help me, help us”.
Finally one day a male friend took a nap on the same bed Annabelle was kept at and he
woke up after feeling like he was being strangled with the doll staring at him.
The girls contacted a medium and held a séance, who said that the spirit of a 7 year old girl
named Annabelle Higgins, a prior occupant, was haunting the house, but she wanted to
stay with the girls and be loved by them.
The girls gave the spirit permission to inhabit the doll- which turned out to be a big mistake,
as Annabelle was not really a friendly, if mischievous, spirit of a young girl, but a
full-blown demon who was looking to possess a human host.
Annabelle would eventually be locked up in the famous paranormal investigators Ed and
Lorraine Warren's museum of the occult, inside a display case with the words “WARNING:
Positively Do Not Open” written on it.
One visitor to the museum scoffed at the warning and taunted the doll, only to be killed on
his motorcycle ride back home from the museum.
Ever since, Lorraine has warned disbelievers about not heeding her warnings to stay away
from Annabelle and other demonic forces.
So, you decided to poke fun at the myth of a demon-inhabited doll, or perhaps Annabelle
managed to scamper out of Ed and Lorraine's museum and into your house- either way you're
now in a 1 on 1 deathmatch versus the demon doll from hell, how are you going to beat
it?
To defeat your enemy first you must know your enemy.
Annabelle is a demon, which means that she is vulnerable to the same key weaknesses as
any other demon: holy water and holy symbols.
The key though is having true faith while wielding those symbols- a cross isn't going
to do you much good if you have no faith that it does in fact represent a higher power with
absolute dominion over evil and love for humanity.
That's why demons' favorite prey is typically weak-willed holy men with little real faith.
Demons are also bound by the laws of the prime material plane should they manifest physically,
meaning that while they may have superior speed and strength compared to the average
human, if they take physical form they are still prone to being harmed.
God does not exempt demons- or angels- from the laws of physics.
Annabelle is interesting in that she manifests both spiritually and physically, albeit the
latter very infrequently.
Typically she does as most demons and haunts her victims, torturing them psychologically
and increasing their fear, for as your fear increases, a demon's strength is also increased.
She typically only manifests physically when greatly enraged, in serious danger, or when
a victim is truly terrified and close to breaking.
This is a key vulnerability that we'll be exploiting in our deathmatch against Annabelle
in both demon and non-demon form.
Annabelle also has a formidable talent for telekinesis, which only grows with the horror
she induces in her victims.
Her power can range from moving toys across a room, to outright snapping fingers on a
person's hand- making Annabelle one of the most powerful telekinetic demons we've seen.
So how are you going to fight a finger-snapping demon doll from hell?
First, as in any confrontation with a demonic entity, you're going to have to make mental
preparations before physical ones.
Annabelle's demonic domain seems to be that of Fear, meaning she urges her victims to
grow increasingly more afraid, and thus grows stronger herself.
Part of your mental preparations are going to be to get a grip on your fears, because
you can bet that Annabelle will be waiting to exploit them.
Unlike other demons we've featured though, Annabelle isn't particularly clever, and doesn't
seem to be able to tap directly into your mind to learn your fears and then conjure
them.
Instead she plays on the universal fears all humans have of the darkness and the unexpected,
manipulating her victims with surprise and simple tricks using shadows and low level
telekinetics.
Take a tip from US Special Operations soldiers and fight your fear before you actually get
into combat- picture your pending confrontation against the demon doll, try and imagine every
possible scare she can throw at you, every creeping shadow she can overwhelm you with
in an attempt to terrify you.
When the moment comes and the lights get snuffed out, you'll realize that you've been picturing
all this before, you know what's coming... something dreadful will appear in a dark corner
but you're ready because you've been thinking about dreadful things in the dark for days
now.
You may not be able to eliminate your fear entirely, but you've got a pretty good handle
on it now, so it's time to start dealing with Annabelle directly.
Your primary objective is going to be to destroy Annabelle the doll, as that is the shell that
Annabelle the demon inhabits and what allows it free reign to enter and exit our world
as it pleases.
That's likely not going to be easy, for a doll Annabelle has shown incredible resilience
to damage, and the demon isn't going to just let you smash it with a hammer.
As soon as Annabelle realizes that her tricks and fear tactics aren't working on you, she's
going to start taking a more direct approach.
The young man in the 70s who slept on the bed shared by Annabelle felt himself being
choked and woke up with scratch marks on his chest... if you're going to try and destroy
Annabelle, you bet you're going to be getting quite a bit more than claw marks.
This is when Annabelle is going to take physical form as she's unable to break you mentally,
which is that of a six and a half to seven foot tall demon with crested horns and onyx
black skin.
The demon is very strong, and capable of tossing adult humans across a room with ease- that's
ok, because you're not going to give it a chance to get that close.
As soon as Annabelle takes physical form, you're going to introduce her to humanity's
crowning achievement in close quarters murder: the AA-12, Atchisson Assault Shotgun.
Test fired by the US Marine Corps and other militaries from around the world, the AA-12
features a 20 round drum magazine and is fully automatic, able to fire five 12 gauge shotgun
shells a second.
That means that in one four-second burst you'll have emptied your drum magazine, but you'll
also have perforated Annabelle's demonic body with more holes than finely aged swiss cheese.
And with its ability to absorb 80% of its recoil through its gas system, and another
10% through its recoil spring, that means that you as the shooter only experience 10%
of the recoil per shot, giving the AA-12 unparalleled accuracy over any other automatic shotgun.
As our friend Billy Mays would say: but wait, because there's more- it can also come armed
with the FRAG-12 shotgun cartridge which turns each shotgun shell into a fragmentation grenade
with a cone-shaped blast to keep you safe.
That's going to come in handy, because demons are incredibly resistant to physical damage,
featuring a tough outer hide that isn't easily penetrated.
So what you're going to do is you're going to create an alternating loadout in your 20
round drum magazine by loading it with one FRAG-12 round, followed by a 12 gauge flechette
round filled with 19 metal flechettes capable of penetrating over a foot and a half of ballistic
gel and traveling at a speed of 1925 feet per second.
That means you'll be blasting Annabelle with one explosive round before hitting her with
a shotgun spray of flesh-shredding flechettes, immediately followed by another explosive
round and another spray of flechettes.
If Annabelle's demonic body isn't hamburger meat in two seconds flat, just hold the trigger
down for another two seconds.
But that only gets rid of the physical body, and arguably that's the weakest form a demon
can take.
Now you need to finish the fight and destroy Annabelle the doll.
That's not going to be easy, specially after you've turned Annabelle's physical form into
a demon-shaped blood stain and quickly evaporating mist of blood.
She's going to be pissed, and she's going to know you're coming to sever her link to
our world, so she's going to throw everything she's got at you, and with her telekinetic
powers that may be a very literal statement.
You better be fast on your feet, because you'll be dodging flying furniture and who knows
what else.
Here's where getting your hands on a holy symbol would be helpful, but unless you have
the faith to wield it properly Annabelle's just going to laugh it off before probably
stabbing you in the face with it.
Even if you have the faith though, there's Annabelle's telekinesis to deal with- and
she has been known to 'encourage' holy men to drop their symbols by systematically snapping
their fingers backwards one at a time.
To keep that from happening, you can order yourself a custom made, medieval style gauntlet
made of steel and reinforced with iron.
Manufacturers such as Wulflund specialize in recreating historical armors and weapons,
only with the added benefit of modern smelting and blacksmithing techniques.
We wish Annabelle good luck trying to snap the fingers of a stainless steel metal gauntlet.
However, odds are you probably lack the true faith necessary to deflect Annabelle's demonic
attacks- don't feel bad, the Warrens are living proof that even the most powerful exorcists
can falter in their faith from time to time.
Why bother getting in close anyways, why not keep your distance, like say, 110 feet of
it?
With the XL18 flamethrower you can spew fires almost a thousand degrees hot at a distance
of 110 feet (33.5 m), and its 3.3 gallon fuel tank can be loaded with napalm to make it
even more devastating.
With that much firepower- literally- at your disposal, Annabelle's telekinetic talents
won't matter, and in seconds you'll have turned the little demonic porcelain doll into melted
clay and rid the world of her link to our world.
At least temporarily, since demons always come back.
Armed with the XL 18 flamethrower and AA-12 automatic shotgun though, humanity can start
giving demons serious second thoughts about returning ever again.
Or until the demons start learning to use shotguns and flame throwers themselves- then
we're all doomed.
How would you defeat Annabelle?
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