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topicnews · July 18, 2025

Was the Annabelle doll in the room?

Was the Annabelle doll in the room?

New details are created in the sudden death of the paranormal investigator Dan Rivera, who died during the tour with the Spukannabelle doll.

Rivera died on Sunday in his hotel room in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, while he was part of the “Devils on the Run” tour with the supposedly hunted doll.

Francis Dutrow, Coroner in Adams County, Pennsylvania, told CNN that the doll was not in the room with Rivera when he died.

Megan Frazer, public information officer of the Pennsylvania state police, also announced a report that matched the crime scene that “nothing unusual or suspicious was observed”.

A police report on July 16 described his death as “natural”, by E! News, but a last cause of death is determined with autopsier results in eight to ten weeks.

Rivera was a senior investigator at the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) and visited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the “Devils on the Run” tour with the Annabelle doll.

Many people online speculated the Annabelle doll, actually a crushed Ann -doll, because of her supposedly cursed nature with Rivera's death.

But “Ghost Hunter's” Alaun Jason Hawes criticized these theories in a Facebook post in honor of Rivera.

“The world recently lost a good man,” Hawes wrote on July 15th. “Dan Rivera was a veteran of the army, a father of four, a husband and someone who really took care of people. What is even more difficult at the moment are the posts that blame his death for things like the Annabelle doll.”

Despite the death of Rivera, the tour “Devils on the Run” is to be continued.

In a statement to TMZ, NESPR told “not know what the future of NESPR will look like without Dan. We are planning to advance the events planned for this year”.

They added: “We believe from all our hearts that Dan would have wanted to bring work together, share knowledge and honor the memory of Ed & Lorraine Warren.”

Annabelle became famous by paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who examined the doll in the 1970s and had locked them in their occult museum.

The Warrens were the inspiration for “The Conjuring” films with Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as well as the spin -off films with Annabelle and “The now”.