Paranormal investigator Dan Rivera was found dead while touring with the “demonically possessed” Annabelle doll. The senior lead investigator for the New England Society for Psychic Research was found in his hotel room. The doll’s origin dates back to 1968. The Raggedy Ann doll was a popular children’s toy from the 1970s. It was first produced in 1915.
The story says Annabelle was owned by a student nurse named Donna in 1970. Her mother bought the doll as birthday gift from a second-hand shop. The Raggedy Ann doll appeared to move around the house of her own accord. Donna and her roommate Angie believed the doll was possessed. After a series of notes that reportedly said ‘help us’, and ‘help Lou’, who was the girls’ male friend, the doll was found with what appeared to be real blood on her hands. A psychic told the girls that their building was constructed on a field where a seven-year-old girl had died years before. The girl’s friend Lou was the first to be ‘attacked’ by the haunted doll.
A priest and a pair of paranormal investigators, Lorraine and Ed Warren, exorcised Donna’s flat, and they allegedly discovered that the doll had been trying to possess the student nurse. Ed and Lorraine took Annabelle away, though their car reportedly faced an array of problems on the road including a severe car crash.
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The ghost hunters locked Annabelle in a glass case, where she was kept in the Warrens’ Occult Museum in Connecticut until its closure in 2016. |
Its said Dan Rivera handled the Annabelle doll on July 12 during the tour and died on July 13. The doll wasn’t in his hotel room.
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