ANNABELLE Haunts St. Louis Before Her Big Screen Debut On October 3

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In the upcoming movie ANNABELLE, John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia—a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia’s delight with Annabelle doesn’t last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now…Annabelle.

The real Annabelle doll was reportedly purchased at a thrift store as a birthday present for a college student in the ‘70s. She tormented her owner and purportedly moved on her own, wrote notes on paper, lied about her identity, clawed and scratched the living, and is even blamed for at least one death.

Annabelle currently rests in a glass case at the Warren’s Occult Museum in Connecticut, behind a sign that reads “Warning: Positively Do Not Open.”

Until now.

Annabelle has escaped and made her way to St. Louis to take in the local sights and sounds of the Gateway to the West. Check out the photos below and be careful if you run into this menace around the city.

Annabelle, the infamous doll at the center of one of paranormal experts Ed and Lorraine Warren’s most profiled cases, made her terrifying screen debut in James Wan’s box office sensation THE CONJURING. Even while shooting the film, Wan and producer Peter Safran were already entertaining the idea that the not-so-innocent doll needed an entire movie of her own.

Wan, who has always been fascinated with the Annabelle case, says, “We know she’s so bad that, even after all this time, she still has to be kept locked up …but, how did she get that way?”

Safran adds, “How does something so charming, so sweet, become a conduit for pure evil and destruction?”

On October 3rd, get ready for an intense ride as Annabelle transforms from pretty to pretty creepy.

Says director John R. Leonetti, “I hope she gets under your skin, then gets in your head, and your soul and your blood. And if your blood starts tingling and the hair on your arms stands up, we’ve done our job.”

So remember, if you see ANNABELLE propped up against a chair or in a corner of a room, just tell yourself “It’s not a person, it’s only a doll.”