West Haven poltergeist case lives among Ed and Lorraine Warren files

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Tony Spera, son-in-law of Ed and Lorraine Warren, unveils the Annabelle doll used in “The Conjuring” and “Annabelle” movies during a presentation, The Warren Files, Night of the Haunted, at the John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven on November 1, 2019.

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Lorraine Warren holds Annabelle, the Raggedy Ann doll displayed at the Warren’s Occult Museum, in Monroe.

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Tony Spera, son-in-law of Ed and Lorraine Warren, unveils the Annabelle doll used in The Conjuring and Annabelle movies during a presentation, The Warren Files, Night of the Haunted, at the John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven on November 1, 2019.

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NEW HAVEN — The audience gasped as an Annabelle doll took the stage recently at John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, but it wasn’t the “real” demonic Annabelle that lives in the Occult Museum of late paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Just as creepy — and a thrill to the audience who had come to hear about “The Warren Files,” the special surprise guest was the Annabelle from the movie, a realistic porcelain doll, as opposed to the real Annabelle — an innocent-looking Raggedy Ann doll.