On Thursday afternoon, I didn’t know anything about the Annabelle doll, and I had nothing but great things to say about Adam Sandler. Now, because of what happened in Kentucky’s Blue-White Game, I need them both to exit the Bluegrass immediately.
If you haven’t heard the bad news yet, Jaland Loweinjured his right shoulder in the second half of Kentucky’s Blue-White Game. Afterward, Mark Pope said that Lowe tweaked the shoulder and sat out the remainder of the event as a precaution, and the staff should know more tomorrow. However, once I learned that a cursed doll is on display in the exhibit halls outside Rupp Arena this weekend and Adam Sandler referenced an injury during his show at Rupp last night, for which the entire team was in attendance, I’m officially spooked, and I’m not even the superstitious type.
For the Annabelle novices in the house, just like me a few hours ago, she’s a haunted Raggedy Ann doll whose story is told in the new film “The Conjuring: Last Rites.” Annabelle is on display this weekend at the Central Bank Center for ScareFest as part of the Devils on the Run Tour. The doll has been around since the 1970s, sparking paranormal activity wherever she goes. Since the start of the Devils on the Run tour, Annabelle’s handler, Dan Rivera, died, and, when Annabelle went to New Orleans for a tour stop in mid-May, 10 inmates escaped from an area prison and a famous plantation caught on fire. Whoever looks Annabelle in the eye supposedly has very bad things coming their way, which is why the doll needs to vacate the halls outside Rupp Arena immediately before more wickedness this way comes…