US comedian Matt Rife and YouTuber Elton Castee announced over the weekend that they’ve purchased the home the infamous Annabelle doll resides in.

The doll was made famous by The Conjuring movie series that was based on the work of famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.

The Warren claimed the foll was possessed by an evil spirit.

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Annabelle resides in the Warren’s former home in Connecticut on the east coast of the US.

Rife will be the legal guardian of the Annabelle doll, and the entire haunted collection, for at least the next five years.

He and Castee plan to open the Warren home — in Monroe, Connecticut — for overnight stays and museum tours.

They’re doing it so that people can experience and learn all about the building’s haunted history, Rife said.

“If you know me, you know I’m obsessed with the paranormal and all things haunted,” Rife said.

Rife said The Conjuring films have always been his favourite scary movies.

“I’m incredibly honoured to have taken over one of the most prominent properties in paranormal history,” he said.

Tony Spera, the Warrens’ son-in-law and co-director of the late couple’s organisation, New England Society for Psychic Research, clarified to TODAY.com that he and his wife still own the Warrens’ collection, including the Annabelle doll, and are only leasing them to Rife and Castee.

“We have no plans to ever ‘sell’ the artifacts,” he said in a statement.

Ed and Lorraine Warren’s paranormal investigations were turned into the horror movies The Conjuring, Annabelle and The Nun. Actors Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga play Ed and Lorraine in the franchise.

The Conjuring: Last Rites is the latest film in the series and will be released in September.

In the three standalone films about Annabelle, the doll is given as a gift to a nursing student who noticed strange occurrences with the doll. The nurse and her roommate call the Warrens, who pronounce the doll “demonically possessed,” remove it from the home and encase it “in a glass box to contain the evil spirited entity”, according to New England Society for Psychic Research.

Ed Warren died in 2006 at 79, and Lorraine Warren died in 2019 at 92.

The New England Society for Psychic Research did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rife’s announcement comes less than a month after paranormal investigator and Annabelle doll handler Dan Rivera died on the Devils on the Run Tour, which features the Annabelle doll.

Rivera, 54, was found dead in a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hotel room on July 13.

According to E! News, a July 16 police report labelled his death as “natural”, but a final cause of death won’t be determined until an autopsy is completed.