Is Annabelle, the Possessed Doll of the Conjuring Franchise, Haunting the Family That Discovered Her?

"Annabelle is sitting bolt upright in the back of her tour van, gliding down Interstate 80 toward Rock Island, Illinois, a town perched on the Mississippi River. In a few hours, Annabelle will lead a meet and greet with fans from across the Midwest. The event follows headline shows in Maine, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Louisiana. Her strawberry-lace hair falls onto her floral dress; her saucer-plate eyes stare straight ahead. A smile is etched on her face. She is always smiling."

"Annabelle is not a pop star. In fact, she's not even human. Annabelle is a three-foot-high, tattered Raggedy Ann doll, obtained and quarantined by American paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. In the 1970s, she enjoyed a modest amount of fame, which was eclipsed forty years later when she became a key character in theConjuring universe. Since 2013, the movies have spawned nine sequels, including Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation, and Annabelle Comes Home. They've earned more than $2.8 billion,"

"According to paranormal enthusiasts, Annabelle is diabolically evil, one of the most haunted artifacts in the world, capable of wreaking havoc on any unfortunate souls who find themselves in her field of influence. It's why a team of handlers, which includes a priest, chaperones her from town to town in a cabinet, emblazoned with a hand-painted sign reading: warning positively do not open. The person who built the box, one of Annabelle's handlers, dropped dead recently."

Annabelle is a three-foot-high, tattered Raggedy Ann doll quarantined by paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren and presented as a malevolent entity. The doll tours with handlers and a priest in a covered cabinet marked 'warning positively do not open' and appears at fan events across the Midwest. The Conjuring film series elevated Annabelle to global notoriety, with nine sequels since 2013 and more than $2.8 billion in box-office receipts. Paranormal enthusiasts claim Annabelle can wreak havoc on people within her influence, and a recent death of the box's builder intensified fears around the artifact.

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