A magical investigator died instantly on Sunday evening whereas touring with the notorious and supposedly haunted Annabelle doll, his tour organizers have introduced.
Dan Rivera, a US Military veteran, was in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on his sold-out “Devils on the Run Tour” when firefighters and medics had been rushed to his lodge, the Night Solar reported.
CPR was carried out however Rivera, 54, died, in keeping with the New England Society for Psychic Analysis (NESPR), the place he was the lead investigator.
His actual reason behind demise stays unclear.
Rivera was featured as a mystical investigator on the Journey Channel’s “Most Haunted Places,” and served as producer for quite a lot of different reveals, together with Netflix’s “28 Days Haunted.”
As a part of his tour, Rivera was touring across the US with different members of NESPR to point out off Annabelle, the creepy and allegedly demonic doll.
His demise got here after he completed a three-day sellout cease in Gettysburg from Friday by means of Sunday, hosted by “Ghostly Images of Gettysburg Tours” on the Troopers Nationwide Orphanage, the NESPR stated on Monday.
Rivera, who’s survived by his spouse Sarah and 4 kids, used social media, together with viral TikToks, to carry the tour to worldwide consideration.
Fellow paranormal investigator Ryan Buell paid tribute to Rivera.
“I have so many amazing memories with this guy. Just as recently as two months ago, we traveled around the country and introduced a whole new generation to Ed and Lorraine Warren’s legacy,” he wrote on TikTok.
Annabelle, a Raggedy Ann doll, was tied to a collection of supposed hauntings in 1970 after being given to Connecticut nursing scholar named Donna.
Ed and Lorraine Warren, the well-known paranormal investigators, claimed the doll bodily lifted its personal arms, adopted individuals across the condominium, and would show different scary and malicious conduct.
The couple additionally claimed Annabelle had stabbed a police officer and brought about a automotive crash involving a priest.
A psychic medium claimed the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a lifeless 6-year-old lady referred to as Annabelle, and the Warrens stated it was demonically possessed and moved the doll to their museum in Connecticut.
The Warrens, who based the NESPR in 1952, investigated quite a lot of mysterious circumstances, together with the Amityville Horror home on Lengthy Island and the Annabelle doll.
Their tales impressed “The Conjuring,” the highest-grossing horror film collection worldwide.
After Ed’s demise in 2006, adopted by that of Lorraine in 2019, the Warrens’ occult museum and the NESPR have been maintained in Connecticut by their daughter Judy and son-in-law, Tony Spera.
In 2019, the museum closed to the general public over zoning points, and in recent times, they’ve toured across the US as a substitute.
Again in mid-Might, conspiracy theorists tried to hyperlink Annabelle to a jail breakout and devastating hearth in Louisiana, pointing to the timing of the doll’s tour cease in New Orleans.
However Spera stamped out the hypothesis, telling the Put up that Annabelle was by no means “out of our control” through the pit cease within the Large Simple.
