Annabelle doll missing from paranormal investigator's room after his death, reports say

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The infamous Annabelle doll has now been missing from the room of the paranormal investigator Dan Rivera after he was found dead, shortly after leading a group for a sold-out ghost tour, reports have said.

Adams County Coroner Francis Dutrow, on Friday, confirmed that the Annabelle doll was missing from 54-year-old Rivera's room when first responders reached and found him dead on Sunday night last week. The cause of Rivera's death remains unknown, reports have said.

Before he died, Rivera was leading a tour along with other members of the New England Society for Psychic Research. The tour included going around US to show off the haunted doll.

This is not the first mysterious death that has been linked to the haunted doll. Annabelle has been involved in a series of paranormal activities in 1970 after it was given to Donna, a nursing student. It has been claimed that the doll raised its hands on its own, followed people around the apartment and displayed malicious behaviour, the New York Post reported.

The doll was moved to a museum after it allegedly stabbed a police officer and also apparently caused a car crash that involved a priest.

The tour group has said that even after Rivera's death, they plan to continue the tour. The tour organisers said, "We believe with all our hearts that Dan would have wanted the work to continue — bringing people together, sharing knowledge, and honouring the memory of Ed and Lorraine Warren...We will carry his spirit in everything we do." However, if the doll is really missing, they would have to pause the tour now.

Conspiracy theorists have linked the Rivera's death to the daunted doll even though the police statements that "nothing unusual or suspicious” was found at the death scene. A psychim medium believed that a 6-year-old girl named Annabelle possessed the doll, media reports said.