It caught my attention while watching E.T. in Amazon Prime that the doll they have used as a toy in the kids' bedroom is surprisingly very similar to the haunted "Annabelle doll", 1970. That itself has 3 movies till date in the Conjuring Universe.
When the film was made after 12 years of the real paranormal event, where the creators aware that they have been using a similar doll to the haunted one?
It's not a paranormal reference. It's the doll from the popular Raggedy Ann franchise, which sold 7 million book copies by 1940 and spawned a very popular line of dolls that were first made in 1960. (It was one of those dolls, bought in 1971, that would go on to gain fame as the "Annabelle doll".)
For another example of how big she was culturally at the time, note that Raggedy Ann was in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1975–1977, 1984–1986, and a few more recent years:
(Image from Insider)
