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topicnews · July 15, 2025

Paranormal investigator Dan Rivera dies in Gettysburg, PA.

Paranormal investigator Dan Rivera dies in Gettysburg, PA.


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  • Dan Rivera, senior investigator at New England Society for Psychic Research, died unexpectedly on Sunday.
  • Rivera's death occurred during the Gettysburg stage of the “Devils on the Run Tour” with the supposedly housed doll Annabelle.
  • The tour, which was sold out, attracted controversy and attention on social media.

According to the New England Society for Psychic Research, the organization behind the tour, visiting a doll in the paranormal legend ended with the sudden death of one of the leading organizers of the National Tour.

Dan Rivera, 54, the leading investigator of the New England Society for Psychic Research and a veteran of the US Army, died on Sunday, July 13, 2025, during his visit to Gettysburg, the company on Monday evening, during his visit in Gettysburg.

Rivera was one of the leading faces of the viral “Devils on the Run Tour”, in which Rivera and other members of the New England Society for Psychic Research had brought the supposedly rescue doll, Annabelle, to different locations throughout the country.

Adams County Dispatch Scanner Archives show that firefighters and medical staff were called to a hotel in Gettysburg on Sunday evening to get a male patient of Rivera's age.

The Gettysburg -Leg of the Tour, which was organized by ghost pictures of Gettysburg tours in the Soldiers National Orphanage, was the organizers that they were sold over 1,260 tickets on Friday, July 11, 2025. On Sunday afternoon.

Rivera had helped with his public relations work to put the tour of international attention, including numerous viral Tikok videos that Rivera produced with the paranormal investigator Ryan Daniel Buell, who collected millions of views when the doll was taken across the country.

The tour had made extensive advertising in the past few months and triggered outrage even in several places, since many on social media were taken to social media due to superstition in relation to the past in the doll's squad.

In the hours after the announcement of the death of Rivera on Monday evening, an expression of tribute and monuments on Rivera over the paranormal community appeared and remembered Rivera for his passion for parts of the paranormal and as caring husband, father, father and friend.

“Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a halo from white light.”

The evening sun was present at the Gettysburg event on Saturday when Rivera led one of the sold-out tours so that customers visit the Annabelle doll.

Before Rivera led the group into the room to see the doll, he was full of charisma when he joked with the visitors about the viral fame of the tour and concentrated on the fact that he focused on making a positive experience for her visit.

“I want you to have a good time,” he told the group that gathered in the orphanage.

Rivera, who was looked after by the famous paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren, told those who were gathered at the event about the steps that he had taken to “protect” from the doll, including the case in which the doll that Rivera had built itself was able.

This case, Rivera told the group, he built with three crosses that represent the holy trinity, and is stained in a finish that contained sacred water.

In his comments, Rivera joked that “we didn't burn these plantations” and “we have not freed these prisoners”, which pointed out to some of the viral cases that had tried to bind social media on the journey of the doll.

Later on the tour, Rivera added that Annabelle had not caused a 911 failure in which wireless emergency warnings via mobile phones Pennsylvania, including within the first performances of the doll, repressed per day before.

When Rivera spoke of his late mentor, he told the audience that their leadership, to protect themselves from “evil spirits”, was almost a form of meditation.

“What Lorraine would say to protect himself,” said Rivera, “to close her eyes and imagine in a halo from white light.”

“Insatious curiosity” made a passion for strange and paranormal passion

Biographies for Rivera described an “insatiable curiosity” about the paranormals at a young age, which led to Rivera founded his own paranormal investigation group after his service in the US Army.

Rivera also led this curiosity to attend lectures by Lorraine Warren, where biographies said that Warren had taken Rivera under her wing in recent years and finally led him to his appointment as the leading investigator for NEPR 2011.

NESPR was founded in 1952 by Ed and Lorraine Warren, who were known for their paranormal investigation into the “The Amityville Horror” house on Long Island, the “Enfield Poltergeist” and the Annabelle doll.

The legend of Annabelle and the Stories of the Warrens inspired a lucrative film series “The Conjuring”, which became the highest horror series worldwide from 2023 and which Warrens' and Annabelles, space in the history of pop culture.

After the death of Ed Warren in 2006, the death of Lorraine in 2019 and the collection of Warrens' Occult Museum in Connecticut was cultivated by her daughter Judy Spera and her son -in -law Tony Spera.

While the museum was closed to the public in 2019 due to zoning questions, the objects within the Warrens Museums have traveled through the country in recent years.

In addition to his work with NESPR, Rivera, as a paranormal investigator on television, worked on TV such as the “Most Haunted Places” of the Travel Channel and as a producer of paranormal television series such as Netflix '28 Days Haunted.

In a tribute to Rivera von Buz, Buell announced that Rivera was taking care of Lorraine extensively towards the end of her life.

“He passionately devoted his time to the life of Ed and Lorraine,” wrote Buell in the post.

Buell, who had worked on the tour with Rivera, noticed Rivera's success, the history of the Warrens in recent years through the organization of the Paracon Paranormal Convention, which Gettysburg visited in 2024, as well as the Annabelle tour for the organization of Gettysburg and the Annabelle tour, which said “a completely new generation with Ed and Lorraine Warren's Toures”.

Rivera's work in which the paranormals were involved, according to the post, including what Buell said, took private work that Rivera and NESPR undertook to support families who were supposedly pursued.

“Just like Ed and Lorraine,” Buel noticed.

“A real legend was lost”

The news of Rivera's death quickly spread on Monday evening under the social media involved in the tour and through social media.

In the announcement by NESPR, the investigator Chris Gilloren, who belonged to the Gettysburg event among those at the Gettysburg event, remembered Rivera's passion and pleasure to share his love for paranormals with others.

“Dan really believed to share his experiences and educate people on the paranormal,” Gilloren wrote. “His friendliness and passion touched everyone who knew him.”

“We are still broken and still process this loss,” said Gilloren in the explanation of himself, the NESPR investigator Wade Kirby and Spera.

“Thank you for your support and friendly thoughts in this difficult time.”

Mary Jo Chudley from Penn Paranormal in Bucks County was among those who took part in the event on Saturday and shared a tribute to the group's extensive social media.

“A real legend was lost in both life and paranormal,” wrote Chudley. “He was one of the friendliest, real and funniest people I've ever known.”

In Buell's post, hundreds of comments and thousands of reactions were shared within just two hours after processing the position, many of which were additional homage to Rivera.

Many of these commentators spoke highly about their own interactions with Rivera at various paranormal events and remembered his enjoyment of sharing his love for paranormals with others.

When the news circulated in various paranormal communities, some reappeared for a Rivera post from 2020, who at his personal mentor, Lorraine, to tribute to his own personal mentor on the anniversary of her death.

“Life really ends?” Rivera began the post 2020, which contained a photo of the common grave of the two famous investigators: “I asked myself this question today.”

“My answer was that in life we take a piece with loved people and friends on our trip through life until there are no more parts that can be given away. They would think that this is the end, but if they look back on all the pieces that give them away, they will always be remembered.”

“So I say I will never die,” wrote Rivera. “My journey started.”

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