Short, Creepy Horror Stories ✔️

ANNABELLE HIGGINS

Title: "Annabelle"

Author: No-one! - It just went down in history and rose to fame

Source: EdgeOfNightfall, YouTube

Type: Non-Fiction, TRUE story, Iconic

(P.S: I felt way too creeped out and disturbed to put the real Annabelle doll's face onto this chapter so I just inserted the ones from the movie. I don't wanna curse you guys by accident now do I? Jk lol, I'm joking...you'll be fine...don't worry!) - You know what I'll put her real picture on here I don't care anymore. Sorry to anyone with doll-phobia or whatever.

(Movie Annabelle = Left, Real Annabelle = Right)

Annabelle is the newest iconic figure of this terrifying world - and unlike most of these horror-based characters, her story is based on real events. Today, we explore the Annabelle doll and her twisted origin story (A.K.A; Annabelle - The True Story and what Really Happened).

During the year of 1970, a girl named Donna, for her 28th Birthday, received a gift from her mother. The gift was a traditional innocent-looking rag doll; who, for the most part, seemed ordinary.

That is until, Donna and her roommate Angie noticed something about the doll. - When placed on Donna's bed and left alone, the girls would come back, only to find that the doll had moved. This would happen on several different occasions. And each time a different part of the doll would be positioned differently. As if the doll itself was moving on its own. (I just shivered).

This strange occurrence only grew as time went on, until eventually, the doll would be left alone, only to be seen again in an entirely different room. - The two girls eventually thought that someone was breaking into their home and playing a practical joke on them. As they would find small notes, written on parchment paper - that they didn't even own.

The notes would say things like; 'help us' or 'help Lou' - Lou being a good friend of the two girls. The occurrences quickly escalated as Donna, on one occasion, found what looked like blood on the doll's hands. This drove Donna to bring a psychic medium into her home.

In an attempt to contact whatever was within the doll.

The medium preformed something on the doll with the girls, and told them that the spirit in the doll was a seven-year-old named Annabelle Higgins; who had died on the property before the girls' apartment complex was built.
Through the medium, Annabelle was able to convince Donna and Angie to let her stay with them, as she claimed to pose no threat. - This however, could not be further from the truth. - The doll remained with the girls for a while longer, and the strange occurrences that were then thought to be normal, grew into terrifying paranormal activity.

Their friend Lou never liked Annabelle, even when the girls first received it. He claimed, that he felt and eerily dark presence ever since he first layed eyes on it.

One night, while Lou was sleeping in their apartment, he woke up, pinned to the bed in a state of sleep paralysis. Unable to move, glancing over at his feet, he found Annabelle slowly climbing up his body, until she was on top of his chest, choking the life out of him while looking at him with a terrifying gaze. 

Lou passed out and waking up next morning and was convinced that what he saw actually happened. 

The second occurrence that Lou endured was when he and Angie were in the house alone, and heard a loud noise in Donna's room.

Shortly after, Lour approached the room, and the noise stopped. When he opened the door, Annabelle was out of place; lying on the floor. He looked around the room, and upon turning back around, facing the door, felt the sudden attack from a demonic spirit. Lou immediately found bleeding claw-marks on his chest. A priest was then contacted by the girls.

And the description of what the three was experiencing with the doll, eventually made its way to renowned paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren. 

The Warrens both concluded that the doll wasn't possessed by a human spirit, but manipulated to look like it was by a demonic force; whose agenda was to physically posses one of the three by increasingly engaging with them on a regular basis.

The Warrens decided to bring a priest to perform a lengthy exorcism, and at the request of Donna, took Annabelle with them, ridding the three (Donna, Angie and Lou) of her presence for good.

Several accidents were attributed to Annabelle's presence.

Many people, from sceptics to priests; who had the opportunity to visit the Warrens to see the doll for themselves, either tested Annabelle's paranormal influence by insulting the doll, or denying her power altogether. - This resulted in many fatal, or close to fatal events that took place in these people's lives, shortly after they tested the doll. 

- One such individual, was a priest who held Annabelle and claimed that the demon spirit had no real power. Ed warned him not to say that, and on his way home, the priest was almost killed in a severe car accident. 

A more well-known incident was when a motorcyclist came to see the doll for himself. At that time, Annabelle was already locked away in a box in the Warrens' Occult Museum. 

The man insulted Annabelle because he wanted to prove that she had no power. - After witnessing this, Ed kicked him out of the house. On his way home, the young man lost control of his motorcycle and died in a fatal crash. 

To this very day, Annabelle remains in that box, along with the rest of the disturbing objects the Warrens have collected over their career. - But Lorraine claims, that Annabelle is the most haunted object in the room. 

In 2009, the story of Annabelle in the beginning of the movie called "The Conjuring"; and terrified many people. And since then Annabelle has become such an iconic figure, that the doll had been featured in two other movies, which are solely about Annabelle herself.

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Hi everyone! I know that most of you guys have probably already seen at least one of the movies in the cinematic universe that are based off of Annabelle, and a rare few of you may have even already heard about the REAL story of Annabelle, which is the one above. Annabelle is a real doll, and all of the above really did happen. You can even go and visit her one day in her little box which is now held safely in a museum. 

Also, if you liked this I recommend that you watch the video-version of this by clicking right here on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mXjeMWpv-I

- And if you really like the video, then you may want to consider subscribing to EdgeOfNightfall's YouTube channel, as he was helpful enough to put the real story of Annabelle together.

And this, is what I personally recommend for you guys: I think you should all go and watch Annabelle Creation (the movie), as it's my favourite one out of the entire Annabelle series, because it tells you, and shows you, how Annabelle happened. It's quite tragic but worth the watch! If you do go ahead and watch it; you'll know why Annabelle is the way she is, and the sweet little girl she once was.

Respect this story as I have now entered haunted grounds and may have crossed the limit. - Just kidding, but seriously do, as no one wants to mess with Annabelle.

I feel creeped out already, best of luck to anyone who read this chapter

P.S: Oh, and if you somehow don't know who Annabelle is, then I'm genuinely shocked, and you might wanna go and read some of my non-horror books instead - as I like almost every single genre out there.

Hope you somewhat enjoyed this chilling "TRUE" story of Annabelle!

Disclaimer: This story is said to be true by those involved, you are entitled to believe this if you wish.

(But in my personal opinion I think all of this really did happen)