Authorities Share New Details About Paranormal Investigator Found Dead After Touring ‘Possessed’ Annabelle Doll

Authorities in Pennsylvania are offering new details about the paranormal investigator who died suddenly while on tour displaying a supposedly haunted Raggedy Ann doll named Annabelle.

Dan Rivera, 54, a senior lead investigator for the Connecticut-based New England Society for Psychic Research, died on Sunday, July 13, during his visit to Gettysburg as part of the Devils on the Run tour, the Evening Sun earlier reported.

On Wednesday, July 16, the Pennsylvania State Police shared a report detailing what happened to Rivera on Sunday.

“Members from PSP Gettysburg responded to a hotel in Straban Township, Adams County for a report of a deceased [man],” officials said. “The decedent was discovered in his hotel room by workers.”

“Nothing unusual or suspicious was observed at the scene,” the agency added. His cause of death is pending.

Rivera had been with colleagues on Sunday morning but said he feeling sick and was going back to his room, Abrams County Coroner Francis Dutrow confirms to PEOPLE.

It’s unclear what Rivera may have been ill with; further information is pending his autopsy results.

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