Within seconds the doll was strangling him.
Paralyzed and gasping for breath Lou, at the point of asphyxiation, blacked out.
Lou awoke the next morning, certain it wasn't a dream, and he was determined to rid himself of that doll and the spirit that possessed it.
Donna and Angie finally started believing that spirit in the house was not that of a young girl but inhuman and demonic in nature.
And then they contracted Lorraine Warren, the famous paranormal investigator.