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Ed and Lorraine Warren with the Annabelle doll at their Occult Museum. ©
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The Annabelle Doll - Any fan of the supernatural will
doubtless know that the movies The Conjuring and
Annabelle were both based on this true story of a haunted doll
that terrorised a pair of nursing students. Leading paranormal
experts Ed and Lorrain Warren were called in to investigate,
and they found that "Annabelle" was actually a demonic
entity in the form of a little girl. After solving the problem
with an exorcism, the Warrens took possession of the doll and
it is now locked away in their Occult Museum.

The Hands Resist Him - The notorious eBay painting, it
depicts a young boy and a doll-like girl standing in front of a
window and a sea of disembodied hands. It was discovered by
a Californian couple on the site of an old brewery. They
auctioned the painting on eBay in February 2000, and said
that the figures it depicted seemed to mysteriously move
around. The painting eventually sold for a whopping $1,025.

Editor's notes: The real Annabelle was bought by a mother for
Facts:
her nursing-student daughter who was turning 28 years old. She
purchased it from a hobby store in 1970.
The painting was done by artist Bill Stoneham in 1972 and
was first displayed at the Feingarten Gallery in Beverly Hills.
Contrary to what people may have been led to believe by the
movies, the nursing student who owned Annabelle was not Actor John Marley was at the show and purchased it. He was
attacked by Satanists. This was a fictionalized account used in best known for playing the part of Jack Woltz in The
the movie to explain how a demon possessed the doll before the Godfather, the movie mogul who found the decapitated
horse's head in his bed.
nursing student was given it as a birthday gift.
You can read more true facts about the real Annabelle at the Bill Stoneham has since created sequel pieces to this image,
which you can view at his website:
following site:
http://www.stonehamstudios.com/
http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/annabelle/
If you want to see Annabelle in person the Warren's Occult
Museum is located in Monroe, Connecticut. Check out their site
at the following:
http://www.warrens.net/index.html

Alan Toner is a paranormal writer whose True Ghost Stories series of
books can be bought from Amazon Kindle Store. In addition to writing, he
also runs the True Ghost Stories site at: http://www.trueghoststories.co.uk
His official website is http://www.wirralwriter.co.uk
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