Paranormal investigator Dan Rivera died in Gettysburg after a ghost tour featuring the Annabelle doll. The doll has a history of alleged paranormal ac

According to E! Online, he died after leading a ghost tour that featured the Annabelle doll, widely believed to be "demonically possessed". The doll was reported as missing from the room. Rivera, who was 54, was on a sold-out 'Devils on the Run' tour at the Soldiers National Orphanage.

Social media users theorized that the allegedly haunted Annabelle doll was behind the July 2025 death of paranormal investigator Dan Rivera.

Annabelle became a household name in 2014 when a horror film followed the story of a doll that became possessed, haunting a couple nearly to their death. Now, the real doll that inspired the movie and its sequels — also called Annabelle — is in the spotlight.

While Annabelle the doll is real, the movie is not a true story. In Annabelle, a female cult member named Annabelle Higgins kills herself while holding the doll, and the demon she helped summon possesses it afterward.

In the film series, Annabelle is depicted as a porcelain doll. In real life, the Warrens claimed that spirits had possessed a Raggedy Ann doll. At one point in Annabelle Comes Home, Judy Warren ...

Ed and Lorraine Warren were renowned for their exploration of the paranormal and wrote about some truly remarkable cases.

From the infamous Amityville haunting to the eerie legend of Annabelle the doll, Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated some of the most terrifying paranormal cases ever recorded. This video explores the facts,