A leading paranormal researcher, Dan Rivera, 54, has passed away suddenly while on a countrywide tour with the purportedly haunted Annabelle doll. The tour promoters confirmed the information, stating the event took place shortly after a three-day, sold-out engagement in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
As the New York Post stated, Rivera, a US Army veteran, was a part of the "Devils on the Run Tour", which he died in on Sunday night.
The event in Gettysburg was organized by "Ghostly Images of Gettysburg Tours" at Soldiers National Orphanage, and it was part of a national tour that the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) has been running.
Rivera had just completed his latest tour segment—where the group showcased Annabelle, the doll long associated with paranormal legends—when the tragedy unfolded. Emergency crews responded to a call about a man undergoing CPR at a Gettysburg hotel. Despite their efforts, Rivera was pronounced dead at the scene.
Evening Sun stated that Rivera was found alone in his hotel room, and the coroner's office said that there were no indications of foul play. Even though the cause of death is still unknown, an official investigation is currently being conducted.
A face well-known in the world of the paranormal, Rivera had a stint on the Travel Channel's Most Haunted Places and had created a number of projects, including Netflix's 28 Days Haunted. On this tour, he had been touring with other members of NESPR, showing the purportedly cursed Annabelle doll to the nation.
The notorious doll, from The Conjuring movie franchise, became popularized in the 1970s after allegedly being presented to a Connecticut nursing student named Donna. Ed and Lorraine Warren, known for their ghost-hunting expeditions, claimed that the doll had the ability to produce chilling, inexplicable occurrences—like its arms rising by itself, moving with individuals, and performing threatening actions.
The Warrens stated that Annabelle had once attacked a police officer with a knife and even made a priest wreck his vehicle. The doll, in their testimonies, was said to be possessed by the ghost of a six-year-old girl named Annabelle but was then considered demonically possessed. To keep its supposed power in check, the Warrens kept the doll in a glass enclosure at their Occult Museum in Connecticut.
Earlier this year, Annabelle was back in the news when internet conspiracy theorists tried to connect the doll with a prison break and a large fire in Louisiana. Experts, however, promptly rejected the rumors, assuring that the doll had never been "out of control."
Rivera's untimely death has thrown a dismal shadow on the tour, which attracted huge crowds drawn to the vampire doll's sinister history. His work in the paranormal division and his efforts in bringing supernatural activity into the public eye continue to be well known today.
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