Got the news this morning
from KFVS, and oh nelly, is this one a doll-related doozy of a story! Just about everyone that I know is familiar with Annabelle, a doll that is supposedly possessed. Indeed, I've gotten more jokes about Annabelle than I care to admit. For the record, the real Annabelle does not look like the little psycho in the movies.
No, and I think that's what makes her even more creepy. On the surface Annabelle is...an ordinary Raggedy Ann doll!
I knew Annabelle was real, but I didn't know she was a Raggedy Ann doll! Anyway, a paranormal expert from New England was touring with Annabelle, which to me sounds like an incredibly dumb thing to do, and apparently Annabelle agrees. The paranormal expert, a gentleman named Dan Rivera,
died suddenly during this tour. The medical experts don't know why yet, but the timing is...kinda creepy. I mean, Mr. Rivera was handling Annabelle with his bare hands! Now I figure that the stories of Annabelle trying to stab someone are probably apocryphal (there is one alleged case of that happening), but y'all wouldn't catch me dead bare-handing this little gal!
I've read a few too many ghost stories, okay??? I believe that items can indeed be cursed, and they're best avoided unless one has a priest in tow. But what say y'all? Was Dan Rivera a victim of Annabelle, or of rotten luck?
Creepy love,
RagingMoon1987
Annabelle is connected to the Warrens. I give the ole side-eye to any claims connected to them.
ReplyDeleteGood point. They were crazy.
DeleteThere is a theory that some of the deaths connected with the 'curse' on King Tut's Tomb were caused by people breathing in certain contaminates from the air like microbes or bacteria that were sealed inside the tomb. There was also a nonfiction book called The Lost City Of The Monkey God about a team in Honduras attempting to investigate potential ruins that had been located from an airplane using lidar. The local tribes had oral stories about a lost sacred city, with passed-down warnings that anyone who entered it would become sick and die. As it turned out, the team ended up contracting an incurable disease from the ruins. But for the original indigenous people who had passed down the stories during a time when people in general had less knowledge about infectious diseases, an outbreak in a specific area could be seen as a supernatural curse.
ReplyDeleteMaybe at some point in her history, the doll Annabelle was contaminated with a substance that could be absorbed through the skin and could cause illness, hallucinations, and/or death. It wouldn't be the first time something like that has happened. I remember reading about a real-life medical case where a shipment of children's jeans was saturated with fertilizer that had leaked during transport. After the jeans dried out, they were sold at a discount as damaged stock by some wholesaler who didn't know what the jeans were stained with. Then kids who wore them started getting sick, and investigators eventually traced it back to the jeans and figured out what had happened.
In any case, I think your aversion to handling an object like Annabelle with your bare hands is justified. Who knows what kind of contaminates she's picked up over the years. And she is a museum piece after all, aren't museum curators supposed to wear gloves to protect the objects anyway?
Signed, Treesa
You'd have thought that folks WOULD handle her with gloves, yes! Dangerous or no, she is a museum piece as you pointed out.
DeleteI'd forgotten about the curse of King Tut, but it makes complete sense. God only knows what Annabelle is stuffed with; it might be something that people are deathly allergic to and don't know it. Or there are other possibilities. Excellent idea; I hadn't even thought she might be toxic...like Clio Teresa, LOL.