The World of Lore by Aaron Mahnke

Author:Aaron Mahnke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2017-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

IN 1970, DONNA was twenty-eight and going to school to become a nurse. She lived in an apartment with her roommate and friend, Angie, and the pair did all the normal things that two college-age women would do: played host to friends, went out, and studied.

For her birthday that year, Donna’s mother gave her something she’d found at the local thrift store. It was an oversized Raggedy Ann doll, perhaps two feet tall. It was certainly an odd gift for a mother to give to her adult daughter, but I’ve heard of worse. Regardless, Donna seemed to appreciate the thought.

Her roommate, Angie, had different feelings, though. Shortly after the doll moved in, Angie began to notice odd behavior. On several occasions, Angie stated, she would leave the room, only to return and find that the doll had shifted position. Sometimes its legs would be crossed, sometimes its arms. Sometimes both.

These instances increased in frequency over time. Soon both women were finding that the doll—which they had named Annabelle—had actually moved around the apartment. Donna would place the doll on the couch before going to work, and when Angie came home later, Annabelle would be on Donna’s bed, with the bedroom door shut.

Let’s be clear: this is the point where I would have purchased a bottle of lighter fluid and a metal trash can. I can’t think of a birthday gift I wouldn’t burn if it started doing things like this. But the women seemed to have put up with it. Maybe it was the sentiment; the doll was a gift, after all. Whatever their motivation, they kept it around, something they would later regret.

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