The legend of Annabelle began in 1970 when a student nurse named Donna received the doll as a birthday gift from her mother. Donna and her roommate Angie soon noticed the doll moving on its own and would discover mysterious, childlike notes on parchment paper, which neither of them owned. The women consulted a medium, who claimed the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a young girl named Annabelle Higgins, who had passed away on the property years earlier. Out of sympathy, they gave the spirit p