The Annabelle doll

A Raggedy Ann doll that Ed and Lorraine Warren said was haunted, kept for decades in their Connecticut museum and later the model for a horror film character.

Ed and Lorraine Warren's own account says the doll's owner, whom they call Donna, and her flatmate Angie grew frightened and asked a medium for help. At a seance the medium named the spirit as Annabelle Higgins, a seven-year-old girl found dead in the field where their apartment block was later built. Wikipedia says the Warrens later moved the doll to their Connecticut museum. Atlas Obscura described it there in a glass case under red light, and passed on the claim that it had killed a man.

Skeptical Inquirer traces the story to a 1971 piece in the Connecticut Sunday Herald, for which the reporter Jill Amadio joined the Warrens as they looked into it. Wikipedia notes that academics and science writers treat the Warrens' account as myth and folklore. A character drawn from the doll appears among the villains of the Conjuring film series.

The museum has since closed. In 2025 Newsweek reported that the doll had been taken on a short tour of several venues for paranormal fans. TikTok videos with millions of views then claimed it had gone missing, citing Lorraine Warren's warning that it must never be moved.