The Warren Museum's Most Cursed Objects
Ed and Lorraine Warren are some of the most famous paranormal investigators of all time and have many 'cursed' objects in their possession.
Ed and Lorraine Warren are some of the most famous paranormal investigators.
The couple boasts having dealt with more than 4 thousand supernatural cases until 2019, when she died, collecting some terrifying objects and storing them in the Warren Museum of the Occult.
Here are some of the most terrifying and mysterious items that can find in the unique Museum:
Annabelle
The original doll differs significantly from the one in the movies; it modified the appearance to match the film's tone and generated displeasure in the viewer.
The honest Annabelle is nothing more than a rag doll belonging to the series of American toys Raggedy Ann Doll, marketed in the 70s.
It is said that the doll was a gift from a mother to her 18-year-old daughter, who was studying nursing.
It was an amusing detail for the student, but little by little, she began to observe strange things that had the doll as their epicenter.
The beauty appeared daily in different positions and even changed rooms.
Soon after, mysterious notes appeared in the girl's house, always with the same message: "Help us."
After the doll physically attacked a friend of the young student, it decided to call exorcists from the Church, who in turn called Ed and Lorraine Warren, who decided to take the doll and keep it locked in the box, which can be seen in the Museum.
A priest comes twice a month to pour holy water on Annabelle.
The Myrtles Plantation Mirror
The Myrtle Plantation House is one of the most haunted houses in the United States.
The property was built over an old Indian burial ground, and, as usual, rumors began to spread.
Murders occurred daily in the house, and some people claimed to witness paranormal events.
One of the most talked about objects was the mirror that arrived in 1980.
All the guests of the estate claim to see shapes trying to come out of the mirror and infant footprints that sometimes appear printed on the glass.
Legend claims that trapped within the mirror is Sarah Woodruff's soul and her children's soul. They poisoned the family.
Interestingly, in some countries’ folklore, it is said that they should cover mirrors immediately after someone's death to prevent their soul from being trapped.
In the case of the Warren Museum, only a few objects with stories would have to be covered.
The Shadow Doll
Annabelle is not the only item in Warren's collection; other artifacts of legend are on display in the Museum of the popular exorcists.
These have been gathered throughout the numerous possession cases the couple has attended.
Among the cursed objects in the Museum is another doll.
Known as "Shadow," it is a rag doll given to the then-young Robert Eugene Otto by someone who practiced black magic and disowned the boy's family.
The boy adored the doll and often talked to it.
Some close family members explained that they heard a ghostly voice respond to the boy's phrases.
Soon the beauty began to break things in the house and blamed Robert for this, claiming his innocence even after becoming an adult.
Finally, the doll ended up in the hands of the Warren couple and their Museum.
The Wedding Dress
Belonging to an upper-class young woman named Anna Baker in 1849, she had fallen in love with a lower-class ironworker.
As in any story of forbidden love, the young woman's father opposed the marriage of the young lovers, and she, in a fit of rage like few others, decided that she would never fall in love again.
She kept it until the end of her days in 1914.
The dress Baker had chosen to marry her ended up in the Warren museum because of a peculiarity it claims to have witnessed: The dress moves on its own, especially on nights with a full moon.
Some speculate that Anna Baker's vengeful spirit sometimes returns to try on her dress.
The Tomb of Bathsheba Sherman
There are two versions of what happened in the case of Bathsheba Sherman.
On the one hand, Lorraine Warren felt her presence in the house where Sherman had lived at the beginning of the 19th century.
After investigations and several episodes of clairvoyance by Lorraine, the Warrens claimed that Sherman had murdered a child as an offering to demonic entities. Before she hanged herself, she cursed everyone who lived in the house.
The other version suggests that she had been tried for the mysterious death of a child in her care.
Although there was no evidence that Sherman had satanic practices, four of her children died before their fourth birthday.
Sherman reportedly died from a "strange form of paralysis" that was likened to being turned to stone."
The Piano Of Terror
It belonged to a man who collected this type of instrument.
However, shortly after acquiring it, he realized that he played it only late at night, so the man contacted the Warren couple, who finally kept it and said he could still hear it sound during the early morning hours.
The Thomas Busby Chair
Rumors that the chair was cursed began in the First World War.
It said soldiers did not return from the war when they sat in it.
An actual story tells that a pilot and a worker on different dates made bets by sitting in a chair to prove that the superstition was not real.
The pilot was sent on a mission hours later, where a failure of his plane killed him.
The worker suffered the same fate; he died when a roof fell on him while he finished building his house.
The "Horns" Figure
This sinister figure has been used in several pagan rites and is protected in the Museum to prevent using it again.
It is a satanic idol supposedly found in the woods of Connecticut, where the invocation ceremonies occur.
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