Last updated on April 30th, 2024 at 09:14 pm
In August 2020, a shocking story appeared on the social media outlets. Annabelle, the evil haunted doll, escaped and was somewhere in New England.
https://www.smokehoax.com/2020/01/annabelle/
Once people bothered to check, it was false. Annabelle was in the Speras’ basement (formerly the Warrens’) and confined as she has always been for many years.
She and the other haunted items are under constant watch with alarm secured windows and motion detector monitors. Nothing leaves the basement and no one enters it.
For years Annabelle was relatively unknown. Fans of the paranormal and people of New England knew of her. You could ask for a visitation and go down to the basement and look around. The Warrens or one of their family members showed you the museum’s artifacts.
Since the Annabelle movies people are constantly trekking to Monroe, Connecticut. They roam around, knock on doors asking for directions. They want a tour ,they want to go downstairs to the museum, they want to hold Annabelle. Unlike the movie, Annabelle never leaves her container.
The residents do not want you to visit and the Monroe Police will arrest you for trespassing and causing a disturbance.
This activity constantly repeats itself. The Amity Horror House went through this. Amityville in New York was a quiet neighborhood until November 1974. A deeply disturbed Ronald Defoe murdered his parents and younger siblings. In prison for life until he died in March 2021, he still came up with different versions of what happened.
The Defoe house was vacant for a year until in December 1975 it was sold to George and Kathleen Lutz. A month later they fled the house with a bestselling book that shocked the world. The book sold 10 million copies.
The house was vacant until bought in March 1977 by James and Barbara Cromarty. They were owners of the popular and still running Riverhead Raceways. The Cromarty family was part of the community and said there was nothing wrong with the house.
But then The Amityville Horror in 1979. The moviegoers were already fascinated with Satanic horror. The movies of Rosemary’s Baby, the Exorcist and the Omen were all blockbusters in their day. With a new movie of a haunted house viewers flocked to cinemas. But this movie was special. Because it was Based on a True Story with a Genuine Haunted House!
People by the hundreds descended on the town of Amityville looking for 112 Ocean Avenue They roamed up and down the streets and trampled backyards. They knocked on the door of the Cromarty home asking for a tour, wanting to see the Red Room. They peered in the windows and peed on the flower garden.
Despite the support of the other residents of Ocean Avenue and the police, the Cromarty family had enough of this constant harassment and moved in August 1987.
The house was sold four more times. No one reported any creepy or supernatural experiences. The last sale was in 2017 and little is known about the buyer. The house underwent restoration and feature various upgrades. The distinctive eye windows have been replaced in 1990. The address changed to 108 Ocean Avenue.
Before that was the infamous night of August 8, 1969. The house on 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills was invaded by demented members of the Manson Family. Several people, including the pregnant actress Sharon Tate, were terrorized and savagely murdered.
The house stayed vacant for the next two decades. Plenty of people came to look and take photos. A couple of times it was rented but vacated. Renters said it was not haunted but was too creepy to feel comfortable.
In 1991, it was sold. The house was demolished and rebuilt with an estate called Villa Bella. Its new address is 10066 Cielo Drive.
This has stopped gawkers because the original murder house no longer exists.
As for haunted, evil Annabelle, she stays as she has since 1970, under lock and key and watchful eyes.
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https://la.curbed.com/2018/6/6/17153870/manson-sharon-tate-murder-house-cielo-drive
https://www.longisland.com/articles/12-05-19/crazy-facts-about-the-amityville-horror-house.html