Annabelle is sitting bolt upright in the back of her tour van, gliding down Interstate 80 toward Rock Island, Illinois, a town perched on the Mississippi River. In a few hours, Annabelle will lead a meet and greet with fans from across the Midwest. The event follows headline shows in Maine, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Louisiana. Her strawberry-lace hair falls onto her floral dress; her saucer-plate eyes stare straight ahead. A smile is etched on her face. She is always smiling.

Annabelle is not a pop star. In fact, she’s not even human. Annabelle is a three-foot-high, tattered Raggedy Ann doll, obtained and quarantined by American paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. In the 1970s, she enjoyed a modest amount of fame, which was eclipsed forty years later when she became a key ch

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