Annabelle The Doll

The Warrens Collection has artifacts from the paranormal investigations that they’ve done, those cases would soon be turned into movies such as; The Conjuring, The Haunting in Connecticut, and perhaps most famously, The Horrors of Amityville.
None of these events, however, have captured our imaginations quite like this one and is by far the most famous doll, Annabelle.
According to NESPR, Annabelle's story begins in 1970, when a 28-year-old nursing student named Donna received a Raggedy Anne doll from her mother as a birthday present.
Donna would keep the doll on her bed in the apartment she shared with her roommate, Angie. Both Donna and Angie were nurses, and so they were out of the house most of the time, leaving the doll in the apartment alone. Shortly after receiving the doll, Donna and Angie began to notice it in positions they hadn't left it in. Sometimes, even finding it in a new room.
On a few occasions, Donna has said to have left the doll on the couch only to later come home and find it on her bed behind her closed bedroom door.
Both Donna and Angie were rational young women and believed there had to be a reasonable explanation for this. Maybe they were just remembering things wrong, but Lou, Angie's fiance, thought otherwise. He had a bad feeling about the doll and told Donna to get rid of it, Donna didn’t listen. Then, they begin finding handwritten notes around the house. They were written in pencil and childlike handwriting on pieces of parchment, a type of paper that no one in the house used. They read, "help us" and “help Lou.”
Donna came home and found a mysterious red liquid on the doll's hands and chest. It looked like blood, but it was coming from the doll itself.
Soon after that, Donna and Angie decided to contact a medium.
The medium conducted a seance, which revealed the spirit of a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle Higgins, living in the doll. Stories differ, but some say that her body was found in the field where Donna and Angie's apartment was later constructed. The medium said Donna and Angie made Annabelle feel loved, and that the spirit wanted to stay. “She trusts you, and just wants to be around you.” Donna felt bad for the girl and gave permission for the spirit to live inside the doll. Lou was not happy about that.
One night, Lou awoke from a bad dream to a sensation of paralysis. He looked down at his legs and saw Annabelle who began to crawl up his body to his chest, where the doll started to strangle him. Lou eventually passed out. In the morning, he was convinced the encounter had not been a dream.
One night, it was just Lou and Angie in the apartment, packing up for a road trip they were leaving on in the morning. Lou was walking to the kitchen and passed Donna's room, and heard shuffling coming from inside.
When he went to investigate, Lou found no evidence of anyone being in the room, though Annabelle appeared to have been tossed on the floor.
As he approached the doll, Lou suddenly doubled over in pain, clutching his chest through his now blood-soaked shirt. He opened his shirt to reveal claw scratches in the Mark of the Beast. It's said Lou's chest healed almost immediately and that all signs of the claw marks had disappeared within two days.
The following morning they called a priest, who then called Ed and Lorraine Warren, renowned demonologists.
The Warren's determined the doll was not actually possessed, as according to NESPR inanimate objects cannot be possessed.

"This doll is not possessed," Lorraine told Donna. "demons only possess humans, this entity was using this doll to manipulate you, moving it around the house so you would pay attention to it, then tricking a medium to telling you it was a spirit of a harmless young girl."
"So, what does it want."
"Your soul."
According to the Warrens, the demon was only a few weeks from completing its infestation, which could have resulted in the death of Donna, Angie, and/or Lou. Though they didn't believe the doll was possessed by a girl named Annabelle, the doll continues to be referred to by that original name.
A priest performed an exorcism on the apartment and the Warrens took Annabelle home with them in a bag. Knowing what this entity was capable of, they made sure to avoid the highways on their way home, since Annabelle would, no doubt, try to sabotage their drive and they were right. Along the way, the car's engine continuously stopped.
Back at the Warrens' home, the doll resumed its haunting, moving throughout the house on its own.
While visiting the Warrens, Father Jason Bradford, a Catholic exorcist, reportedly picked up Annabelle from the chair it was sitting in and said:
"You're just a ragdoll Annabelle, you can't hurt anyone." he then threw it back to the chair, which provoked the inhumane spirit within the doll. Lorraine instructed Father Jason to be extra cautious while driving and to call them when he got home. Three hours later, the Warrens got a call from Father Jason, saying his brakes went out as he entered an intersection and that his car had been totaled.
This wasn't the only car crash to be caused by the doll. One visitor who went to the Warrens collection reportedly banged on the case that houses Annabelle and taunted it, begging the doll to prove it was haunted by scratching him. After Ed asked the man to leave, the man got on his motorcycle with his girlfriend and rode off. According to Lorraine, the girlfriend later told the Warrens she and the man were laughing about the doll when the man suddenly lost control of the motorcycle, crashing into a tree and killing him.
The last thing you should do is provoke the unknown, especially one that’s being manipulated.