A paranormal investigator passed away unexpectedly Sunday night during a tour featuring the infamous and allegedly haunted Annabelle doll, according to his tour organizers.
Dan Rivera, a US Army veteran, was in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, leading his sold-out “Devils on the Run Tour” when firefighters and emergency responders arrived at his hotel, the Evening Sun reported.
Despite CPR efforts, Rivera, 54, died, the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) — where he served as lead investigator — confirmed.

The exact cause of Rivera’s death has not been disclosed.
He appeared as a paranormal investigator on the Travel Channel’s “Most Haunted Places” and worked as a producer on several other shows, including Netflix’s “28 Days Haunted.”
During his tour, Rivera traveled across the US with fellow NESPR members to showcase Annabelle, the eerie and reportedly demonic doll.
His death occurred shortly after completing a three-day sold-out event in Gettysburg from Friday to Sunday, hosted by “Ghostly Images of Gettysburg Tours” at the Soldiers National Orphanage, the NESPR announced on Monday.
Rivera, survived by his wife Sarah and their four children, used social media—including viral TikTok videos—to draw international attention to the tour.
Fellow paranormal investigator Ryan Buell honored Rivera with a tribute.
“I have so many amazing memories with this guy. Just two months ago, we traveled across the country, introducing a whole new generation to Ed and Lorraine Warren’s legacy,” he wrote on TikTok.
Annabelle, a Raggedy Ann doll, became linked to a series of alleged hauntings in 1970 after being given to a nursing student named Donna in Connecticut.
Famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren reported that the doll would lift its own arms, follow people around the apartment, and exhibit other frightening and malevolent behaviors.
The Warrens also claimed that Annabelle had stabbed a police officer and caused a car accident involving a priest.
A psychic medium said the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a deceased 6-year-old girl named Annabelle, while the Warrens insisted it was demonically possessed and relocated the doll to their museum in Connecticut.
The Warrens, who founded the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) in 1952, investigated numerous mysterious cases, including the Amityville Horror house on Long Island and the Annabelle doll.
Their stories inspired “The Conjuring,” the highest-grossing horror movie franchise worldwide.
Following Ed’s death in 2006 and Lorraine’s in 2019, the Warrens’ occult museum and the NESPR have been preserved in Connecticut by their daughter Judy and son-in-law Tony Spera.
In 2019, the museum closed to the public due to zoning issues, and in recent years, the Warrens’ family has toured the US instead.
In mid-May, conspiracy theorists attempted to connect Annabelle to a prison break and a devastating fire in Louisiana, citing the doll’s tour stop in New Orleans as suspicious timing.
However, Tony Spera dismissed the rumors, telling The Post that Annabelle was never “out of our control” during the visit to the Big Easy.


