In the case of cursed objects, The Conjuring franchise has ensured that everybody is aware of the evil doll Annabelle. Nonetheless, the unique, real-life model of the doll has now hit the headlines after paranormal investigator Dan Rivera was revealed to have died all of the sudden on the age of 54 whereas on tour with the merchandise.
Rivera has been internet hosting a nationwide tour with the New England Society of Psychic Analysis that options the unique Annabelle doll that impressed The Conjuring motion pictures. The newest cease of the tour was in Gettysberg, Pennsylvania, the place Rivera sadly handed away. Sharing the information on Fb, Chris Gilloren of the NESPR wrote:
“It’s with deep disappointment that Tony, Wade, and I share the sudden passing of our shut good friend and accomplice, Dan Rivera. We’re heartbroken and nonetheless processing this loss. Thanks to your assist and sort ideas throughout this tough time.”
In keeping with particulars revealed by Adams County dispatch (by way of E!Information), authorities have been known as to a lodge on July 13, after stories of CPR being carried out on a 54-year-old man had been known as in. No official reason behind demise has but been revealed, with the coroner’s report at the moment pending.

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The tour being hosted by the NESPR had carried out its Gettysberg present the day earlier than Rivera’s demise. The investigator had been working within the paranormal analysis trade for over a decade, following a profession within the U.S. military. Our ideas are along with his household and associates presently.
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The tour that Rivera was collaborating in noticed the unique Annabelle doll being faraway from its typical confinement within the Warren’s Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut, the place Ed and Lorraine Warren maintain many objects which were linked to the paranormal instances they’ve been concerned in over the a long time.
Courting again to 1968, the haunting story that impressed one of the crucial profitable horror franchises of the final a number of a long time started when a nursing scholar was gifted a ragdoll. In keeping with the case recordsdata on the NESPR web site:
“Virtually instantly, the roommates seen unusual occurrences with the doll and so they have been launched to a medium who instructed them the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a younger woman named Annabelle. The 2 roommates tried to just accept the doll’s spirit and please it solely to have it reciprocate maliciousness and violent intent.”
As a part of the Devils on the Run Tour, the blurb notes that audiences would expertise a “chilling encounter” with the seemingly atypical doll that has “reportedly brought on misfortune, harm, and even demise to those that have interacted with it improperly.”
Rivera’s unhappy demise is now set to be a footnote within the already prolonged historical past of Annabelle, as little doubt, those that consider within the doll’s malignancy won’t be able to rule out the investigator’s shut connection together with her throughout this tour as greater than a mere coincidence.
Supply: E!Information/NESPR
Annabelle
- Launch Date
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October 3, 2014
- Runtime
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99minutes
- Director
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John R. Leonetti