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[This story contains spoilers for Annabelle Comes Dwelling house.]

The cursed doll Annabelle was first introduced to horror audiences in The Conjuring (2013), and proved to be so compelling that the porcelain figure quickly became the subject of her ain franchise with Annabelle (2014), Annabelle: Creation (2017) and the latest, Gary Dauberman's Annabelle Comes Home.

New Line's Annabelle and Conjuring films are based on accounts that paranormal researchers claim to be truthful. Simply with the latest installment, when the theater lights turn back on, viewers may exist left with more than questions than answers. Fans take no style of knowing which haunted artifacts presented in the picture show are based on actual ones, and which are Hollywood ploys for quick jump-scares.

To investigate, The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Tony Spera, the real-life Occult Museum curator and son-in-law of renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. Here, the curator of the Connecticut-based museum breaks down the legends that inspired the latest motion-picture show, and how they differ from what made it to the big screen.

The Wedding Dress

In Annabelle Comes Domicile, a nuptials dress in the museum has a stiff presence. Within the get-go half hour of the film, the backstory behind the deadly dress is revealed. Whoever puts the dress on is sure to murder her fiance. Spera debunks the wearing apparel' roots, confirming that a white gown is present in the Occult Museum, but that it's not known whether or non the dress ever belonged to a helpmate.

Spera confirms that the killer fiance origin story of the gown portrayed is 100 percent fictional, and was solely designed to up the spine-chilling ante of the film for the big screen. The official story backside the white gown in the Occult Museum that the museum claims to be true is of the White Lady of Union Graveyard, Connecticut. "She has been spotted for decades and decades," Spera says. "Even recently people have defenseless a glimpse of this effigy."

Co-ordinate to Spera, one of the supposed witnesses of the White Lady was a young man named Rod Vescey. One night in 2009, Rod was driving past Union graveyard at around 1 a.thou later he clocked out of piece of work. He was going down Road 59 when he of a sudden felt a presence take form in his passenger seat. Rod glanced over his shoulder, and to his surprise saw a human dressed in '60s garb. Rod looked away overcome by fearfulness, and so slowly turned to peek again. When Rod looked over, the entity vanished into thin air, but as quickly as it arrived.

Rod refocused his optics on the road, and in doing so unexpectedly spotted a adult female about 35 or 40 yards alee of him dressed in a white gown with a veil. The White Lady, equally she is called, raised her paw up in forepart of her, equally if to say "end." Rod sharply pumped the brakes. As soon every bit he did, the White Lady lunged at the vehicle and went right through his automobile. When the apparition disappeared, Spera said that Rod felt "a wisp of air go by his right ear," and he just knew that that sensation was her going through the car. He looked out from the window once more than, and saw his side of the road tinted with a brick red hue, every bit if someone had coated the road with red paint. When the White Lady went through Rod, he "felt a sense of sorrow and compassion, like she was trying to tell him something," possibly attempting to imbue the potentially tragic details of her untimely decease.

On a separate occasion, when a transformer burn down broke out on Route 25, the White Lady supposedly manifested herself to such a degree as to become solid. An off-duty policeman and firefighter were responding to a call when they accidentally struck the White Lady. The impact was so severe that the crash dented their truck. The White Lady was able to get solid that night because "the energy spewing from the transformers gave the spirit the energy to manifest," Spera explains. All of the local hospitals and law were called, but no accidents were reported — in that location was no living lady. It is believed that the adult female the officers striking was the White Lady of Union Graveyard.

The Annabelle Doll

Spera says the Annabelle doll is accurately portrayed in the films — at least co-ordinate to the mythology of the museum. The main deviation between New Line's Annabelle and the Occult Museum'southward doll is appearance. The Annabelle movie fans are taught to fear has been jazzed upwardly for Hollywood purposes. In real life, the Annabelle doll is not wide-eyed and made of porcelain. It's actually an innocent-looking Raggedy Ann doll. Regardless of prototype, the existent doll is said to be dangerous.

"Looks are deceiving," Lorraine Warren, who died before this year, told United states of america Today when discussing Annabelle. "Information technology'due south not what the doll looks similar that makes information technology scary; it is what has been infused inside the doll: evil."

Annabelle'southward origin story in the films contrasts sharply from the story maintained by the museum. In the nonfiction version of Annabelle, there were two nurses living together in Hartford, Connecticut. One of the nurses was gifted the Raggedy Ann doll past her female parent in 1970. Spera believes the mother purchased the doll from a 2nd-hand shop. After she received the present, a string of eerie occurrences ensued in the apartment. For instance, the nurse would exit the doll on the couch only to return to discover the doll sitting in her bedroom. Other days, she would go out knowing that she had left the doll'south legs uncrossed, and come up home seeing Annabelle's legs intertwined.

The nurses became concerned with the inanimate object's subtle movements, peculiarly when they discovered parchment paper with the words "assistance me" written in crayon scattered around the flat. The women had no idea where the parchment paper came from, as they had none stored in their complex. The parchment notes were nothing compared to what would happen adjacent.

I forenoon while the nurses were eating at their breakfast nook, "Annabelle's ii flimsy little material artillery levitated onto the table," Spera says. When the startling paranormal activity took place, the nurses were oddly fascinated by the doll. Ane of the nurses deduced that the doll'south actions meant she was trying to communicate with the roommates, so she called a psychic for advice. The medium took no fourth dimension coming to the nurses' aid, and quickly held a seance. While hosting the ritual, the psychic reported that she was "sensing the spirit of a immature daughter well-nigh vi or 7 years one-time," Spera says. The psychic went on to impart that the child was killed outside of this apartment complex in a motorcar accident. "Her proper noun is Annabelle, and she'due south in that doll," the psychic said. That's how the name Annabelle came to exist.

Later on processing what they had heard, the nurses believed that a human spirit was occupying the doll, and began treating Annabelle more similar a man than a doll. For a little while everything was fine, until ane night Lou, the fiance of ane of the nurses, was sleeping on the couch with Annabelle plainly seated on the opposite end.

That nighttime Lou woke upwardly startled and sweaty. I of the nurses asked him what was wrong, to which he responded: "I just had the craziest nightmare. I had a dream that that doll there was crawling up my leg, and got to my neck, and was trying to strangle me to expiry." Angrily reacting to the nightmare, Lou picked up Annabelle, and chucked her raggedy trunk across the flat flooring. Lou belittled the doll shouting that she "is nothing more than a Raggedy Ann doll. … She tin't injure anybody."

As soon as Lou launched the doll, he is said to have provoked the demonic presence attached to it, causing "seven psychic wounds to announced on his body — four slash marks on his chest and three on his breadbasket," according to Spera. His wounds cropped up like claw marks or scalpel incisions on his mankind. The attack on Lou was indicative that the spirit tied to the doll was far more than sinister than any 6-year-onetime girl.

One might wonder why Annabelle targeted Lou and not the nurses. Spera rationalizes this by comparing Lou's sensitivity to the doll to poison ivy. "Say yous [came beyond] a toxicant ivy plant, and I told you not to touch information technology," Spera says. "Well, some people tin bear upon the plant and not get poison ivy. … Whereas other people can affect the plant and their bodies [become] riddled with [a rash]."

After the assault, the tormented nurses turned to an episcopal priest in Connecticut for help. As a effect of the severity of their predicament, the priest directed them to the Warrens. Once Ed and Lorraine Warren were on the Annabelle instance, they had a priest do an exorcism on the flat to bandage out any spirits. After, Ed took the doll with him for safekeeping. Subsequently the paranormal investigator placed her in the backseat of his vehicle, he claimed he experienced machine trouble on his way home, like to the machine trouble seen during the get-go of Annabelle Comes Dwelling house.

Today, the Annabelle doll remains safely housed backside a glass case in the Occult Museum.

The Mourning Bracelet

In Annabelle Comes Home, when coping with the loss of her father, Daniela (Katie Sarife) puts the museum'due south mourning bracelet on her wrist in an attempt to contact her deceased loved 1. She puts a photo of her love dad into the bracelet, and asks to speak to him. When she does this, she disobeys the "no touching" policy of the museum.

Spera confirms in that location is no such item in the museum, although he suspects that the object is likely inspired past the museum'south pearls of death.

In the Occult Museum, at that place is a existent prepare of pearls that a woman was given. When she placed the pearls on her neck, she claimed to experience as though she was beingness strangled to death. People effectually her had to yank the pearls off of the woman to save her. "It all goes dorsum to cursed objects," Spera explains. "Objects that someone put a curse onto." It could be a bracelet, necklace or whatsoever article that someone "performed incantations and rituals over to put bad vibes into, similar someone did to the Annabelle doll." In the same mode a priest can bless a holy relic, a satanic worshipper or black magic practitioner can curse a belonging, as exemplified by the pearls of death.

The Feeley Meeley Game

There is no Feeley Meeley game in the Occult Museum (nor is there a samurai conform, in example you were wondering). Spera believes that the inclusion of the game could be reminiscent of the classic Ouija board since both games involve using one'due south easily.

With the Feeley Meeley game, 1 person sticks their mitt into a box with 24 objects inside and tries to feel effectually for the object seen on the card they drew. Whereas, to use a Ouija lath, two people, or one person, put their hands on a plastic planchette, and ask a spirit questions. "It's different than [the Feeley Meeley game], but actually a Oujia board is much more than dangerous considering you're asking to talk to spirits — to the unknown realm," Spera says.

"One time you open the door to the other realm, information technology's very difficult to shut information technology," Spera says. "It's like opening a window in a log cabin out in the woods thinking a dainty monarch butterfly is going to fly in, [but] a wolf, coyote or bear can come through and impairment you." The analogy is fitting for the spirit realm. "Y'all don't know what's out there, so you must be conscientious with what y'all invite in."

The Conjuring Mirror

In Annabelle Comes Dwelling, at that place is a television set in the museum that shows the future when you look into information technology. When Daniela looks into the set, she becomes frozen, as if the Tv were Medusa'southward face and she had been turned to rock. Spera says that this Tv set ready was completely fabricated for the film, only that the idea may have come from the conjuring mirror in the Occult Museum.

The mirror was given its proper noun because someone supposedly attempted to conjure spirits on its reflection. With this particular object, a human in New Jersey is said to accept sabbatum in front of the wall-mounted mirror for hours on finish, continuously request to summon his deceased family members. "Hey, I want to encounter you, tin you lot come and talk to me?" he would ask the mirror as he sabbatum in darkness with cipher merely a crimson light seedling behind him. The homo beckoned the looking drinking glass for about two weeks. Afterward a fortnight passed, "ugly monstrosities' faces appeared on the mirror." The hellish faces were so diabolical that they drove the man to a mental institution.

Spera points out that this blazon of conjuring is known every bit crystalmancy: "Crystalmancy is when a spirit is able to present itself on a shiny object such every bit a Television set, a mirror, a plate, drinking glass window, a bumper of a car, etc."

The Warrens gained possession of the conjuring mirror when the owner's family called them to their dwelling later he was admitted to the mental establishment.

The Werewolf Paw

In the Annabelle Comes Abode museum, a werewolf paw is shown to audiences resting on a shelf. Later on in the film, a living, breathing werewolf lurks outside the Warrens' house in the bushes, near their chicken coop. Co-ordinate to Spera, no such werewolf paw exists in the museum, however the werewolf manus was likely invented every bit a nod to a London example Ed and Lorraine worked on and even penned a book nigh,Werewolf: A True Story of Demonic Possession.

"At that place was a case in London where a man would turn into a werewolf," Spera claims. He didn't become a werewolf like in the movies, only he would act similar a werewolf. The man would growl, turn his fingers into claws, and attack people on the streets of London. "It was the Werewolf of London Case, and the man who came under assault was William (a.k.a. Pecker) Ramsey."

Spera says that the Warrens believed that Ramsey was possessed by the spirit that causes lycanthropy (the supernatural transformation of a human into a wolf). To save Ramsey's soul, in 1989 Ed and Lorraine brought him all the style to the United States from London to have Bishop Robert McKenna perform an exorcism on him and free him of the evil force.

Later the exorcism was carried out, Bill Ramsey said he was free from the evil that was in him. He returned to his former self and went on to live out a normal life.

The Organ

One time over again Daniela breaks the "no touching" dominion of the museum when she presses her fingers down on the keys of the museum'southward piano. Afterward merely a moment the teen's playing is disrupted when she is spooked by an otherworldly man who appears suddenly playing next to her.

As in the filmic depiction, Spera claims that at that place is in fact an organ in the Occult Museum and that it belonged to Ed Warren, who obtained it after authorities cleaned out a haunted house owned by Reverend Eliakim Phelps in Stratford, Connecticut.

Eventually, the residence burned downward, but before the dwelling house went down in flames, it was emptied. Someone from the potency at the city of Stratford reached out to Ed, asking him if he'd exist interested in keeping the organ. Ed Warren secured the musical instrument merely unknowingly carried more than an ordinary organ dorsum with him to the Occult Museum.

"Ed could hear the strains of this organ playing at dark, so he thought to himself, 'Geez, someone must take cleaved into the museum,' so Ed would jet down the stairs to check," Spera claims. "Of course nothing was touched, or unlocked. As soon every bit he'd get to the museum, the organ stopped playing. This [false alarm] happened iii times."

The organ finally quieted after a priest came to anoint the museum, as is done on a regular ground. Spera says that "a Cosmic priest comes in every ii or iii months to bless the entire museum, and all of the objects." In an interview with USA Today, Lorraine Warren once said that the prayers piece of work to "bind the evil — much like an electrical argue for a dog."

Spera says he doesn't e'er want to destroy the museum'due south objects because they are show of past cases. Besides, if one were to impairment an item, that person would but be destroying the vessel, and releasing the evil from which information technology is contained. There is also another crucial reason Spera continues to safeguard the objects now that Ed and Lorraine have died:

"[For] students of the paranormal, [the Occult Museum] is like a classroom where I can really keep [tainted] objects [on display] for peers, and have them get a better understanding," Spera says.

The Occult Museum is currently closed while it looks for a new location due to zoning regulations.

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Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/annabelle-comes-home-real-stories-behind-artifacts-1216397/

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