Peek inside the real-life ‘Conjuring’ museum – where you need holy water to visit Annabelle

MONROE, Connecticut – The world’s most famous paranormal-investigator couple left behind a museum full of real-life “haunted” relics they collected on their adventures – including the creepy doll that inspired the horror movie. Inspired “Annabelle”.

The late husband-and-wife couple Ed and Lorraine Warren, now immortalized as characters in “The Conjuring” series of films, kept a secret museum on their estate that is no longer open to the public.

But those who are lucky enough – or unlucky enough – to see inside are surrounded by mysterious objects like haunted pieces of the crashed Eastern Airlines Flight 401, an organ that plays on its own, and a human skull.

Visitors are given holy water to sprinkle on their hands before gazing upon the museum’s most infamous object – Annabelle, a giant Raggedy Ann doll who is not as aggressive-looking as her Hollywood counterpart, but in a glass case. Keeps watching silently as “marked”. WARNING: DEFINITELY DO NOT OPEN.”

“We put it in a case because we don’t want anyone touching it with their bare hands,” said the Warrens’ son-in-law Tony Spera — who now continues the couple’s work as head of the New England Society. For psychic research.

“We have a priest come and he regularly says ritual prayers over this doll once a month. He blesses the entire museum, and he specifically blesses this doll using holy oil and holy water.

Annabelle, whose case bears two plaques engraved with “Our Father” and the Catholic St. Michael the Archangel, reportedly terrorized two roommates in the 1970s by mysteriously shaking herself and leaving creepy notes.

After a scene, the force allegedly controlling the doll became more aggressive and tried to strangle a friend who was sleeping in the apartment, according to Vidya. The theory was that a dead girl possessed the doll, but Ed Warren later concluded that there was something more sinister controlling the toy – a demon.

Even now, visitors claim to have seen the doll’s weak arms move on their own, Spera said.

Warren’s simple yellow wooden house at the end of a quiet suburban block is now the headquarters for SPERA and NESPR’s continuing work.

Zoning issues closed the museum, which is housed in a shed in Warren’s former yard, but a reporter and photographer from The Post were recently given access to the bone-chilling exhibits ahead of Halloween.

There are several “No Trespassing” signs that were placed in the yard by Spera, to discourage curiosity – to limited success.

Ed Warren was a demonologist and Lorraine Warren was a “trance medium”, the pair investigated alleged paranormal activity in some high-profile cases around the world, including claims of apparitions following a murder in Amityville, Long Island. also included, which inspired the novel and film “The Amityville Horror.”

Ed Warren died in 2006 and Lorraine died in 2019 after she bequeathed to daughter Judy and Spera to continue the work through NESPR. He said, they investigate ghosts, demonic entities and help needy people with blessings and even exorcisms.

“But it’s all a way of showing people that the paranormal is a reality, that the devil is real, ghosts are real, and not to get involved in occult practices, and what to do if you encounter things like this, ” Spera said. “If you have a haunted thing, how do you fix it, how do you stay away from it?”

His main suggestion – do not “acknowledge” supernatural things happening in your home as this will only attract the entity to you.

Don’t engage in the occult, even if it means using a Ouija board.

“If you keep thinking about it, keep thinking, well, there’s a ghost in my house, I saw a shadow, I wonder if that shadow is bad, if you keep thinking about it, You are attracting more of it to yourself,” he warned. “Then you have to turn it off. But you have to use God also. If you are religious, you pray to God to protect you from anything negative.

At the center of Warren’s work was his belief in God, he said. With this comes the acknowledgment that Satan is real.

“What does he want? He wants you to stay away from God,” Spera told The Post. “He wants you to worship him. Maybe he wants your soul. Try to get your soul so that you want to stay away from all that.

Annabelle

NESPR History: This giant Raggedy Ann doll — which inspired the very different-looking killer toys in the movies “The Conjuring” and “Annabelle” — was bought by a nurse for her daughter in the 1970s, but she found it couldn’t move on its own. She left behind a dreadful handwritten note. Messages that said “Help us.” The doll pretends to be possessed by a little girl, but upon investigation it is revealed that she is actually possessed by a demon.

Spero says: “Innocent looking doll, isn’t it? It is not innocent…this doll has caused a lot of problems for people. Just don’t give it any recognition. If you have a nightmare tonight, don’t call me.

Exhibition: Shadow Doll

NESPR History: This object is not a children’s toy – it is made for black witchcraft as a tool to curse people. Dolls can haunt your dreams and even stop your heart. It had been in an antique shop for 20 years before a newlywed couple bought it, but after noticing strange occurrences in their home they gave it to Ed Warren.

Spero says: “To use the doll, you take a photo of it and on the back of the printed photo, write a curse and mail it to your enemy.

“By simply accepting the photo, even without turning it over to read the curse, you accept the curse that comes with it – either making you sick, dying, bad luck, whatever. In anticipation of.”E.”

Exhibition: Satanic Statue

NESPR History: The 6-foot-tall, horned figure was believed to be found by a hunter in the woods of Newtown, Connecticut, after he was approached by a black figure in his car, whom Ed Warren said was from a Satanic cult. Was the head of. He took the item back to the museum, but the next day Lorraine Warren fell into a semi-conscious state for three days – a mysterious illness which Ed attributed to the cult leader.

Spero says: “He said, ‘As a warning, what this guy did was he did it to Lorraine to let me know he was angry because I took away his idol.'”