
Let’s get this out of the way right up top: I don’t believe haunted dolls exist. That said, nobody can deny that an awful lot of disturbing things happen around Annabelle, the most famous haunted doll in the world who’s at the core of the hugely successful horror movie franchise that bears her name.
The real Annabelle – an unassuming-looking Raggedy Ann doll first reared her crimson head in 1970, when she was implicated by paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (who The Conjuring movies are based on) in a series of hauntings.