The bridal gown

Tony Spera, the actual curator of the Occult Museum and the son-in-law of famed demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, was contacted by The Hollywood Reporter to conduct an investigation. Here, the museum’s curator from Connecticut explains how the latest movie differs from the legends that served as its inspiration.

A wedding dress in a museum has a prominent role in the movie Annabelle Comes Home. The history of the fatal dress is explained during the first 30 minutes of the movie. The person who puts the dress on will undoubtedly kill her fiance. Spera disproves the history of the dress by stating that there is a white gown in the Occult Museum but it is unknown whether or not it has ever belonged to a bride.

Spera claims that the origin tale of the murderer fiance depicted in the gown is entirely fictitious and was only created to increase the film’s suspense factor on the big screen. The White Lady of Union Graveyard, Connecticut, according to the Occult Museum, is the official legend behind the white dress on display there. She has been seen for many years, according to Spera. Even lately, individuals have seen this figure.

Spera claimed that a young man by the name of Rod Vescey was one of the purported witnesses of the White Lady. After clocking off of work one evening in 2009, Rod was driving by Union Cemetery at around one in the morning. He was driving down Route 59 when all of a sudden, he sensed a presence forming in the passenger seat.

Rod surprised himself by spotting a man dressed in 1960s attire as he peered over his shoulder. Rod carefully turned to peer again after turning away in dread. When Rod turned to look, the object had disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared.

Refocusing on the road, Rod unintentionally glanced forward and noticed a woman wearing a white gown and a veil around 35 or 40 yards away. As if to signal “halt,” The White Lady, as she is known, raised her hand in front of her. Rod slammed on the brakes hard. When he did, the White Lady pounced on the car and sped straight through it. Rod noticed “a wisp of air fly by his right ear” after the ghost vanished, according to Spera, and he instinctively knew that it was she walked through the vehicle.

Once more, he peered out the window and noticed that his side of the street was tinged brick red, as if someone had painted it that colour. Rod reported that when the White Lady passed through him, he “had a sense of grief and sympathy, like she was trying to tell him something,” possibly trying to convey the awful circumstances surrounding her premature demise.

The White Lady allegedly materialised herself on another occasion when a transformer fire broke out on Route 25 to the point that she solidified. In response to a report, an off-duty police officer and a firefighter unintentionally hit the White Lady. The collision dented their pickup due to the severity of the hit.

The energy emanating from the transformers, according to Spera, “gave the spirit the energy to incarnate,” enabling the White Lady to take on concrete form that evening. Police and all of the neighbourhood hospitals were contacted, but no accidents were reported because there was no surviving lady. It’s thought that the White Lady of Union Graveyard was the woman the officers struck.

The Doll of Annabelle

Spera claims that, at least in accordance with the museum’s mythology, the Annabelle doll is depicted in the movies authentically. The doll from the Occult Museum and Annabelle from New Line are mostly distinguished by appearance. Hollywood has spiced up the Annabelle movie that viewers have been conditioned to fear.

The Annabelle doll is not porcelain and has not large eyes in real life. It’s a Raggedy Ann doll that appears to be innocent. Whatever its appearance, the genuine doll is allegedly deadly.

When speaking about Annabelle, Lorraine Warren, who passed away earlier this year, told USA Today that appearances can be deceiving. The evil that has been injected within the doll is what makes it frightening, not how it looks.

The genesis tale for Annabelle in the movies is very different from the one that the museum keeps up. In Hartford, Connecticut, two nurses cohabited in the nonfiction version of Annabelle. The Raggedy Ann doll was given to one of the nurses in 1970 by her mother. Spera thinks the mother bought the doll from a used-goods shop.

The moment she opened the gift, strange things started to happen in the flat. If the nurse left the doll on the couch, she might come back to discover it sitting in her bedroom. On other occasions, she would leave the house knowing that she had left Annabelle’s legs uncrossed only to return to find them crossed.

The nurses got worried about the inanimate object’s slight movements, especially after they found parchment paper spread throughout the flat with the words “help me” written in crayon. The women had no parchment paper stored in their building, therefore they had no idea where it came from. The parchment notes were insignificant in light of what would follow.

Spera claims that “Annabelle’s two frail tiny cloth arms levitated onto the table” one morning as the nurses were dining in their breakfast nook. The nurses seemed strangely drawn to the doll when the stunning paranormal activity occurred. One of the nurses assumed the doll was attempting to contact the roommates based on the doll’s behaviour, so she made a call to a psychic for guidance.

The medium rapidly conducted a seance after immediately stepping in to help the nurses. According to Spera, the psychic who presided over the ritual claimed to be “feeling the spirit of a young girl of 6 or 7 years old.” The psychic continued by revealing that the kid was killed in a car accident outside of this apartment complex. The psychic said, “Her name is Annabelle, and she’s in that doll.” That is how Annabelle got her name.

The nurses began treating Annabelle more like a person than a doll after considering what they had heard, thinking that a human spirit was living inside the doll. Everything was going smoothly for a while, but then one night Lou, the nurse’s fiancé, was found asleep on the couch with Annabelle purportedly sat on the other end.