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

MONROE, CONNECTICUT – The world’s most famous paranormal-investigating couple left behind a museum full of real-life “haunted” relics they collected in their adventures – including the creepy doll that inspired the horror movie “Annabelle.”Late husband-and-wife couple Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are now immortalized as characters in “The Conjuring” series of movies, kept an occult museum on their property that is no longer open to the public.But those lucky enough – or unlucky enough – to get a look inside are surrounded by occult items like haunted fragments of 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 setting their sights on the museum’s most notorious item – Annabelle, a giant Raggedy Ann doll that isn’t as aggressive-looking as its Hollywood counterpart but sits staring quietly in a glass case marked “Warning: Positively Do Not Open.”“We keep it in a case because we don’t want anybody to touch it with their bare hands,” said Tony Spera, the Warrens’ son-in-law – who now continues the couple’s work as the head of the New England Society for Psychic Research.“We have a priest come in and he does ritualistic prayers on this doll on a regular basis probably once a month.

He blesses the entire museum, and he blesses specifically this doll using holy oil and holy water.”Annabelle, whose case is engraved with the “Our Father” and two plaques with Catholic St.Michael the Archangel, allegedly terrorized two roommates in the 1970s by mysteriously moving by itself and leaving creepy notes.After a seance, the force supposedly controlling the doll became more aggressive and it tried to strangle a friend sleeping in the apartment, according to the lore.

The theory was that a dead girl had possessed the doll but Ed Warren later concluded something much more sinister was controlling the toy – a demon.Visitors, even n...