Whereas it’s unattainable to infer precisely what truly occurred, a number of sources level in direction of the truth that the actual Annabelle was a present given to a student-nurse named Donna on her birthday in 1971. The doll was a hand-me-down from a passion retailer, and Donna was initially thrilled to have gotten Annabelle. Quickly, Donna and her roommate Angie started to note unusual conduct exhibited by the doll, the place micro-movements regularly escalated to extra aggressive ones, corresponding to when the doll moved from one room to the subsequent. Whereas this might have been a easy case of shared paranoia, the ladies’ mutual buddy, Lou, believed that the doll was possessed, and shortly after, sinister notes had been discovered strewn all throughout the house, together with ones that stated “Assist Lou” or “Assist us.”
Even after these unusual issues occurred, Donna and Angie tried to rationalize them to the perfect of their skills. Nevertheless, sooner or later, Donna returned dwelling to search out the doll with blood on its palms, which prompted the arrival of a medium. The medium informed the ladies concerning the loss of life of a kid named Annabelle, whose spirit was allegedly connected to the doll, which led Donna and Angie to strive their greatest to accommodate the seemingly possessed doll. After Lou suffered scratch marks when nobody was dwelling, the Warrens got here in quickly after and deduced that Annabelle’s objective was to take possession of Donna’s soul.
Whereas there is no such thing as a approach to truly assist or debunk these occasions, it’s clear that the involvement of the Warrens led to the doll being saved within the duo’s now-closed occult museum, the place it nonetheless resides. The Warrens took Annabelle with them after declaring that the doll was possessed and allegedly encountered unusual phenomena on their approach again, together with object levitation and vehicular mishap.
