The notorious Annabelle doll wasn’t within the room — however dying was.
Paranormal investigator Dan Rivera, 54, was discovered lifeless in his Gettysburg lodge room this week, simply hours after ending a sold-out “Devils on the Run Tour” on the Troopers Nationwide Orphanage, which featured the allegedly cursed Annabelle doll, Individuals reported.
The creepy plaything wasn’t within the room although when first responders arrived and located the US Military veteran lifeless later that night time, Adams County Coroner Francis Dutrow advised the outlet.
Rivera’s reason behind dying stays unknown, with post-mortem outcomes nonetheless pending.
He had been featured as a mystical investigator on the Journey Channel’s “Most Haunted Places” and served as producer for a variety of different exhibits, together with Netflix’s “28 Days Haunted.”
A part of Rivera’s tour included touring across the US with different members of the New England Society for Psychic Analysis — based in 1952 by well-known paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren — to point out off the Raggedy Ann Doll determine.
The Annabelle doll has been tied to a collection of supposed hauntings in 1970 after it was given to a Connecticut nursing scholar named Donna. The Warrens claimed the toy bodily lifted its personal arms, adopted individuals across the house, and would show different horrifying and malicious habits.
The couple, whose story impressed “The Conjuring” horror film collection, additionally claimed Annabelle was demonically possessed and had stabbed a police officer and brought about a automotive crash involving a priest, later shifting it to their museum in Connecticut.
A psychic medium believed the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a lifeless 6-year-old named Annabelle.
Conspiracy theorists have since linked Rivera’s sudden demise to the allegedly haunted relic, regardless of state police confirming Wednesday that “nothing unusual or suspicious” was discovered on the grim scene.
NESPR stated it plans to proceed its supernatural tour following the sudden lack of their chief investigator.
“We believe with all our hearts that Dan would have wanted the work to continue — bringing people together, sharing knowledge, and honoring the memory of Ed and Lorraine Warren,” tour organizers stated in a press release.
“We will carry his spirit in everything we do.”
