Matt Rife Becomes Legal Guardian of Cursed Annabelle Doll and Warren Home
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Matt Rife is taking his interest in the paranormal to a whole new level.

Rife revealed via a Friday, August 1, TikTok video that he recently purchased the home of Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators who were based in Connecticut.

“If you know me, you know I’m obsessed with the paranormal and all things haunted,” he explained. “You also may know The Conjuring films are my favorite scary movies of all time. So I’m incredibly honored to have taken over one of the most prominent properties in paranormal history.”

Along with the house, which inspired The Conjuring movie franchise, Rife added that he will be “the legal guardian for at least the next 5 years, of the entire haunted collection including THE ANNABELLE DOLL.”

Friends costars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox, Jenna Bush Hager and George Lopez have all spoken about their homes being haunted. Some celebrity haunting tales can be unsettling and spooky – like Matthew McConaughey’s experience with a ghost called Madam Blu lingering in one hallway to freak out his visitors. Jessica Alba relayed her own […]

“Ed and Lorain Warren arguably put demonology and paranormal into the mainstream and are the very heart of some of the most famous haunted stories of all time,” he continued.

Horror fans will also have the opportunity to “book a night or a weekend and stay at the Warrens’ house and investigate the house,” according to the comedian.”

“This is the most random hobby ever but it’s so f***ing cool, man,” Rife added. “I should probably collect stamps or something — might be a little safer.”

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Annabelle was previously the charge of Dan Rivera, who died unexpectedly while on a national tour with the doll.

“I can only speak to my experiences with Annabelle,” said paranormal investigator Zak Bagans in an exclusive interview with Us Weekly on July 16.

“I did have the opportunity to investigate Annabelle when the owner brought her to my museum in 2017,” he told Us of the allegedly haunted Raggedy Ann doll, which is said to move on its own, leave messages on paper for its owners and change positions. “I got very affected by her and it kinda caused me to touch the doll. The owner didn’t like that too much.”

Matt Rife gained a major following after his standup comedy routines blew up on TikTok, but his family was always there supporting his career — and now he’s returning the favor. The Netflix star had a particularly close bond to his late grandfather, Steve Rife. “My grandpa really was my father figure. I spent every […]

Bagans also shared that he once experienced a scary episode with another, supposedly possessed doll.

“It was a demonic infestation and severely affected me, and I was literally in the hospital the next day,” he claimed. “It was a two-month-long attachment and one of the worst experiences of my life.”

The Warrens moved into the Snedeker house — which was formerly a funeral home — in 1986 and declared it full of demons, a case that was the foundation for Ed’s book In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting and the 2002 Discovery Channel series A Haunting.

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