In 1970, a young nurse was given a doll by her mother for her 28th birthday. What neither of them could have known at the time is the terror that doll would cause for not only them but countless other individuals. This is the story of one of the most haunted dolls in recent history, Annabelle. 

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• Annabelle (archive.org)
• The Real Annabelle Doll's True Story Of Terror (allthatsinteresting.com)
• Real ‘Annabelle’ story shared by Lorraine Warren at Milford’s Lauralton Hall (nhregister.com)
• Ed And Lorraine Warren, The Paranormal Investigators Behind Your Favorite Scary Movies (allthatsinteresting.com)
• The chilling true story of the real doll behind ‘Annabelle’ (historydefined.net)
• Annabelle (doll) - Wikipedia