They doused her with holy water and stuck her in the (blessed) plastic casing where she still resides today. The mediums, Ed and Lorraine Warren, agreed to take the doll with them. Donna and her roommate noticed that the doll was doing strange things - moving around and leaving notes - and called a medium, who told them that the doll was possessed by a deceased girl named Annabelle Higgins. According to lore, the doll was purchased from a vintage store in the ‘70s as a gift to a girl named Donna. The makers of Annabelle (and The Conjuring) got lucky - they have a real-life origin story to work with: Annabelle comes from the history of an old Raggedy-Anne doll, one that you can still see at the Warren Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut. “They’re not quite human-looking, but they have the resemblances that are close enough.” “I think vintage things are generally the things that look the creepiest, things that look old, and the way things were designed back then,” says Rosen. Things that are old generally freak people out. It’s Halloween, and with Annabelle still in theaters (and memories of The Conjuring forever haunting our dreams), we spoke with the creator of the titular doll, designer Tony Rosen, who crafted Annabelle and asked him: What makes a good scary doll?
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