"When we got home, the doll was sitting in the hallway, but we all remembered that it had been placed alone in an empty room." In the documentary, a blonde girl spoke in a trembling voice. "You must think we're crazy."
"Did you ever consider that it might have been someone's prank? Maybe someone had a key to your apartment," a man behind the camera said.
"That was what we thought at first too, but we found no signs that anyone had come in."
"So you believe the doll was possessed?" a woman behind the camera asked.
"Yes." The blonde girl and the dark-haired girl nodded together. The only boy among the three said nothing and did not nod. He looked as though his mind was elsewhere, as if he were not really there at all.
"Garcia found a psychic. She said that a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle Higgins had died in this apartment. She was lonely, and she really liked my doll. She just wanted to make friends," the dark-haired girl said.
"We felt terrible when we heard the story. We're nurses. Helping people is our duty, so..." The blonde girl twisted her fingers uneasily. They both looked deeply regretful over their moment of softness. "Then things just kept getting worse."
With Jim Wilson's help, Mills moved the safe out of the walk-in closet. Then, just like in the "dream," he removed the partition behind it and found the tin cookie box.
Wearing a pair of white cotton gloves, he took out the dust-covered box and was about to open it.
"Wait!" Jim Wilson said. "I'll turn on the camera."
With that, he went to operate the thermal camera specially used to "film" ghosts.
Aside from exorcists like Ethan Logan, who did it for money, there were many