Dan Rivera's cause update after tour with 'Haunted' Annabelle doll

The paranormal investigator Dan Rivera, who organizes a national tour with the notorious Annabelle doll, suddenly died at the age of 54, said the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR).

Newsweek I asked for a comment on Wednesday by e -mail.

The context

Annabelle is said to have been obsessed with a demonic unit and inspired the film in 2013 The magic. The doll is usually kept in the Warrens' Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut, which was founded by the late NEPR founder Ed Warren, a demonologist, and his wife Lorraine Warren, a trance medium, is currently on tour.

The tour celebrates the work of the Warrens and shows Annabelle “for those who are brave enough to face it”.

According to the NESPR website, a student received Annabelle as a gift in 1968, but she and her roommate soon noticed “strange events with the doll”.

“They were introduced to a medium that told them that the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a young girl named Annabelle,” says the website. “The two roommates tried to accept the ghost of the doll, and it only likes that it only replies malignancy and violent intentions.”

The Warrens later speaks “the doll demonically obsessed” and “removed the doll from the house and wrapped them into a glass box to contain the evil spirited unit.”

What to know?

Rivera died on Sunday in a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Hotel Room, said the deputy coroner of Adams County, Scott Pennwill, per. Today. His cause of death is “pending”.

“His death was nothing suspicious. The office of the forensic doctor and the state police were called to the scene on Sunday evening,” Pennwill told the outlet and noticed that Annabelle was not present.

Rivera was the leading investigator for the NESPR and also a veteran of the US Army. He was involved in the sold -out “Devils on the Run Tour” over the weekend and organized a show with Annabelle the day before his death.

At the beginning of this year, rumors began to buzz that Annabelle had been stolen after the doll was held responsible for the recent fires and prison fractures.

Tony Spera – Director of the NESPR, who took over the occult museum after Ed Warren's death – looked at speculation and informed NBC News at the time that the doll was “never out of sight”.

“In a way, I do not accuse people of being skeptical,” added Spera from people that the doll is actually obsessed. “If people don't know anything about the demonic, it is very difficult to believe that these things happen but they happen.”

What people say

The New England Society for Psychic Research announced in a declaration published on Monday: “It is with deep sadness that Tony, Wade and I share the sudden death of our close friend and partner Dan Rivera. We are broken heart and still process this loss. Then then really believed to share his experiences and raise people in paranity. His friendliness and passion touched everyone who knows him.

What happens next

It is estimated Today.

The magic: last rites, The latest film in The magic The universe franchise will come to cinemas in September.