Demon Doll 'Annabelle' Will Haunt Again in Scary Sequel

The hit 2014 horror film Annabelle, about the possessed doll who lives in the Warrens Occult Museum in Monroe, is rumored to be returning to the screen to terrify viewers in a sequel, according to IGN.

The website reports that Gary Dauberman will write the script, however no one else is currently attached to the project. Variety reported that the original movie grossed over $250 million worldwide on a $6.5 million budget.

Annabelle was directed by John R. Leonetti and was as a spinoff to The Conjuring, about the possessed doll who Ed and Lorraine Warren found in a house they were investigating.

Lorraine Warren and her late husband Ed have researched hauntings for decades-- from The Amityville Horror, to The Conjuring and Annabelle, the duo’s findings have inspired some of the most frightening films.

The 2014 movie Annabelle was a follow-up to the blockbuster The Conjuring, and based on one of more than 10,000 cases they investigated. At a lecture in Shelton last October, Warren’s son-in-law Tony Spera told listeners that Hollywood’s version of what really happened with the possessed doll was only “one percent accurate.”

“They didn’t call us to consult with them like they did for The Conjuring,” Spera explained. “All they got right was the name of the doll and that she was possessed.”

The doll is the focal point for the Warren’s Occult Museum located at their Monroe home. Legend has it that you don’t want to touch or make Anabelle mad or she will put a curse on you. Spera helps Warren run the museum and visitors from all over the country come to see the supernatural relics the Warrens have collected for the last 60 years, including that famous doll named Annabelle.

Warren and Spera continue to host presentations about the supernatural, especially during the Halloween season. Patch attended a lecture at Shelton High last October in which the duo spoke about ghost and demons.

“There is such a thing as spirits, ghosts, devils and demons. They’re real,” Spera said. “Ghosts need energy to manifest, they will take it from living things from plant life, to electrical wires, to you and me.”

Demons, they explained, are more dangerous, can lift objects and can make it almost impossible to move. Lorraine Warren said she felt a demon’s presence when visiting what she calls the scariest place on earth-- Amityville.

“I wouldn’t go back there if you paid me a million dollars,” Warren, a devout Catholic, said. “When we were there investigating, I levitated. I tried to make the sign of the cross but I couldn’t, so I just kept praying in my mind. It was the scariest place ever; pitch black. It’s scarier than The Conjuring.”

Lorraine Warren and her late husband Ed claimed to have investigated over 10,000 hauntings during their career. Edward Warren passed away in August of 2006. In 1952, the couple founded the New England Society for Psychic Research, located in Monroe, Conn. Mrs. Warren, 88, runs the Occult Museum in Monroe home with the help of her son-in-law, Tony Spera.

To learn more about the Warrens, the Occult Museum, or to find out where Lorraine and Tony will be speaking next, visit their website.

Photo: The Warren’s Occult Museum Credit: Creations By Sole’s Denounce Photography, Graphic arts, Web consultation.