| Annabelle
THE HAUNTED DOLL
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Annabelle:
The Haunted Doll
In the 1970's a mother strolling
along the street walked into a
hobby store, and purchased a large
Raggedy-Anne doll as a present
for her daughter's birthday. Thus
begins one of the most unusual
cases of a possessed object on
record. Annabelle's antics were
so bad, she is now locked inside
a protective glass case in an
occult museum to keep her at bay. |
In the 1970's, a mother strolling
along the street walked into a hobby
store, and purchased a large Raggedy-Anne
doll as a present for her daughter's
birthday. Recently moved away to college,
living away from home wasn't easy
and Donna loved the little doll. Every
morning she placed AnnaBelle on her
bed after making it. But Annabelle
didn't stay in bed for very long.
This incident is a terrifying case
investigated by famed paranormal investigators
Ed and Lorraine Warren in the 1970's.
A priest had contacted Ed, and told
him of two young nurses who were experiencing
terrifying phenomenon in their home.
Strange things were occurring to the
point that they had contacted the
church for help. The church referred
the case to the Warrens, who immediately
began investigating.
The disturbance began in the home
when the girls discovered a piece
of chocolate candy mysteriously left
on the stereo in the living room.
None of the tenants had bought chocolate,
and they were perplexed as to how
it had gotten there. Strange messages
were found written in a child's handwriting
scrawled on paper. Objects were often
moved about the home, never being
found where they had originally been
left. It seemed as if somebody...
or something was sharing the house
with the frightened tenants. After
a month of unusual occurrences the
girls decided that they needed help.
They investigated the history of the
property, and also contacted a local
medium. They discovered that before
the apartments had been built on the
land, a young girl named 'AnnaBelle'
had died on the property. AnnaBelle
used to love playing in the field...
they were happy times for her, and
her spirit had never left. The medium
explained that little AnnaBelle's
spirit was still there, and responsible
for the occurrences in the Home. AnnaBelle
asked if she could stay with them,
by moving into the doll that Donna's
mom had bought for her birthday. Not
knowing what else to do, the girls
said yes, and eventually even renamed
the doll AnnaBelle.
The girls came to think of Annabelle
as a harmless mascot of sorts, and
often left her on the bed in the mornings,
or perched on the sofa in the living
room. Returning home from work, it
seemed to them as if the doll had
repositioned itself from where it
had been left earlier. At first, they
noticed that the arms and legs of
the doll were in a different position.
In time... AnnaBelle was changing
rooms all by herself. The girls would
come home at night to find AnnaBelle
sitting in a chair by the front door,
or kneeling on the floor. Other times,
they would find AnnaBelle sitting
on the sofa, even though she was left
in Donna's room.
Things reached a fever pitch one
night when loud noises were heard
coming from the bedroom. Thinking
someone may have broken in, they quietly
tip-toed to the door. Entering the
room, one of the tenants was physically
attacked by an unseen entity and ran
from the bedroom with slashes and
cuts. Nothing out of the ordinary
was found in the bedroom except for
AnnaBelle... lying roughly tossed
in one corner.
After hearing the girls incredible
story, Ed and Lorraine Warren immediately
contacted the church and invited a
priest to come over for a blessing
of the home. They realized that some
sort of demonic energy was affecting
the house, and particularly the doll
itself. The blessing was performed
and at Donna's request, the doll was
removed from the house by the Warren's.
For the next three days, AnnaBelle
sat in a small chair located by Ed
Warren's desk. While working, he would
observe the doll moving on several
occasions. When the Warren's were
away and had the doll locked up in
an outer office building, they would
often return home to find AnnaBelle
sitting comfortably upstairs in Ed's
easy chair. AnnaBelle would occasionally
emit horrific growls in response to
visiting clergyman.
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Today, AnnaBelle remains
locked in a glass case, and
is on display at the Warren
Occult museum. The only one
of it's kind, the museum houses
haunted artifacts and objects
collected from over 50 years
of paranormal investigations.
It is still reported that
while very week, AnnaBelle
still manages to turn up in
the strangest of places.
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ROBERT THE DOLL
Probably the most
famous haunted plaything ever, Robert
is a doll that now resides –
happily, they say - in The East
Martello Museum in Key West, Florida
ROBERT
THE DOLL
Within
months after the arrival of
the doll in the Otto household,
strange things began to occur.
Objects would go missing and
turn up broken, Gene took
to the unhealthy habit of
sneaking out of his window
and wandering the grounds
at night, and his parents
began to suspect him of all
kinds of mischief. If he was
caught in the act, Gene would
always hold out Robert and
say, “Robert did it!”
Although
some dismissed the unusual
events as the product of an
overactive child, others close
to the family began to whisper
that somehow the doll was
to blame.
As time
went by, the Ottos grew older
and each, in turn, died, leaving
the adult Gene – and
Robert – to live in
the house. They spent several
years there alone until Gene
ultimately met and married
a local socialite and took
her home to live.
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Many
of you are already acquainted
with Robert, the lifelong
companion of painter Robert
Eugene (called Gene) Otto,
who received the three-foot-tall
straw companion from his Bahamian
nanny when he was just a small
boy. The doll would be with
him for the remainder of his
life.
There are a number of stories
about the nanny, obviously
the pivotal figure in this
doll drama. Many say that,
although she dearly loved
young Gene, she was mistreated
and abused by his parents
on a regular basis. Some versions
of the tale have the nanny
practicing the dark Voodoo
arts and giving the doll to
Robert out of revenge for
her ill treatment, but there
is nothing to support this
being the case. Evidently,
Gene received the doll, said
to be a replica of him, as
a gift of love. He promptly
named it Robert.
To say that Robert stayed
by Gene’s side is an
understatement, for Gene was
never without the little plaything.
He even dressed it in his
own clothes and spent hours
on end playing in his nursery
with only the doll as company.
It is said that he was often
heard talking to the doll
and answering himself in an
entirely different voice.
Gene slept, ate and traveled
with Robert by his side.
Soon the doll apparently
became bolder. It no longer
seemed to require Gene’s
company to move about the
house. In the still hours
of the night, the servants
would often wake to the sound
of hollow, pattering footsteps.
Too frightened to inspect
the cause, they would usually
cower in their beds until
dawn. Weird humming and singing
was heard to come from the
nursery if Gene inadvertently
left Robert there alone. None
of the servants was eager
to clean Gene’s rooms;
nobody liked to turn their
back on the doll. |
From the moment The new Mre.s Otto
arrived, the creepy doll disturbed
the new Mrs. Otto and eventually
she prevailed upon her husband to
put it away. Robert was relegated
to rooms in the attic, where he
was to remain – mostly –
for the rest of Gene Otto’s
life.
“Mostly,” because, according
to the stories, Robert often left
the attic on his own. There are
several accounts by the servants
and Mrs. Otto herself of Robert
being seen darting up and down the
attic stairs. Mrs. Otto was often
troubled by the sound of the doll’s
dancing feet tapping the attic floor
above her, and one time was alarmed
to hear the doll’s voice singing
in the old nursery. Upon entering,
she found the doll sitting in one
of Gene’s old rocking chairs.
When she confronted her husband
about taking the doll from the attic
when it disturbed her so, she was
met with the obtuse statement, “Robert
did it!” yet again. When Mrs.
Otto eventually preceded her husband
in death, many wondered, “Did
Robert do it?”
It was widely believed that the
death of Gene Otto in 1972 would
put an end to the ghostly activity
of the haunted doll. It was quickly
learned, however, that true evil
never dies, and while the house
stood empty reports of the awful
doll still continued. Many people
would hear the sound of singing
coming from the house at night and
on more than one occasion the gruesome
doll is said to have frightened
school children by peering out the
window in the attic turret and making
faces at them.
Eventually, a new family purchased
the old house and Robert the Doll
was discovered in his attic home
and was promptly presented to the
family’s youngest daughter,
then aged 10, as a housewarming
gift.
From the moment she received the
doll the child was plagued by horrible
nightmares. More than once, she
claims, she awoke to find the doll
sitting on her face, attempting,
she believed, to suffocate her.
It seemed that Robert intensely
disliked being left behind by Gene
and had no love for his new “owner.”
It was also painfully obvious that
he did not like little girls because
he is blamed for having torn up
and mutilated most of the young
girl’s other dolls. When the
family pet became mysteriously entwined
in the cord of the nursery Venetian
blinds, Robert was once again consigned
to the attic.
When the family finally moved and
the home was converted into the
Artist’s House historic location
as it stands today, Robert was donated
to The East Martello Museum not
far away. It quickly became evident,
however, that Robert was still up
to his old tricks.
Museum workers began
to report strange activity after
the arrival of the doll, including
one volunteer who was terrorized
when the doll apparently spent most
of a day following her around. Eventually,
the doll was encased in a plastic
display case in which it remains
to this day. Still, there are those
who claim that even this cannot
contain the evil doll and it is
often blamed for numerous odd occurrences
in and around the museum.
Once a year, in October, Robert
the Doll (in his case) is taken
to the Historic Custom House where
he is placed on display. Some visitors
comment about the seemingly odd
practice of peppermints being placed
in the display case along with the
doll. They are usually fittingly
creeped out by the explanation:
Robert, it seems, loves peppermints,
and placing some in his case will
keep him from wanting to roam at
night. Skeptics might scoff at this
practice, but it is reported by
museum and Custom House staff alike
that each morning during his October
visit there are empty peppermint
wrappings littering the bottom of
Robert’s display case…
Robert the Doll, still clad in one
of Gene Otto’s sailor suits
and clutching a small teddy bear,
can be visited at The East Martello
Museum and, in October, at the Historic
Custom House in Key West, Florida.
Also very much a fact Robert the
doll is the size of a 5 yr old child.
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While haunted doll
stories are not uncommon, the case
of The worlds most Haunted doll
as many call him, or Robert the
ghost haunted Doll of Key West,
Florida, is unique in that so many
claim to have witnessed his evil
first-hand.
Visitors who have
seen him claim to have witnessed
his expression changing into a menacing
smirk, once a plumber fled, claiming
he heard the doll giggle.
One of Robert's favorite
activities is to prevent his picture
from being taken. Visitors have
more then often openly reported
a variety of camera malfunctions
and Robert's favorite trick is to
black out his own photo, while leaving
the remaining film unharmed. He
frequently creates electric and
electronic fluctuations and has
been said to move his toy lion from
one knee to the other and to tap
on his glass display case.
Please look at these
Robert the Haunted Doll Photos and
see what horrors you see.
All Robert The Doll
Ghost Photos are submissions from
our many visitors to our haunted
ghost filled web site. www.hauntedamericatours
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