Paranormal Experts Demand Demonic Annabelle Doll Be Destroyed Following Dan Rivera’s Mysterious Death

Spiritualists are demanding the immediate destruction of a spooky Raggedy Ann doll that is claimed to be possessed by demons after a famed paranormal investigator died suddenly during a traveling exhibition featuring the eerie child’s toy.

Dan Rivera, 54, was found dead in his Gettysburg, Pa., hotel room July 13 following a three-day, sold-out tour stop at an orphanage in town.

The cause of death of the U.S. Army vet and father of four — who starred on Travel Channel’s Most Haunted Places and produced shows including Netflix’s 28 Days Haunted — remains a mystery, pending an autopsy, according to officials.

But in an exclusive to Globe, Adams County Coroner Francis Dutrow insists he detected “nothing suspicious” about the ghostbuster’s early death.

Still, paranormal experts claim the doll — known as Annabelle and featured in the Conjuring horror movies and chillingly linked to a host of real-life violent and eerie acts — should not be preserved.

“That thing should be immediately destroyed,” declares spiritualist Donna Miller, who has used her psychic abilities working with law enforcement.

“Too much evil surrounds that doll. Too much has happened for it to be kept.”

Sources say the doll’s origins trace back to 1968, when an unsuspecting Hartford, Conn., woman bought the creepy cuddler at a hobby store and gifted it to her nursing-student daughter for Christmas.

The 28-year-old gal soon saw chilling signs of demonic possession — the doll would change poses, move to different rooms in the house and, most scarily, would growl.

Ominous handwritten notes with messages like “Help me, help us” appeared around her apartment, she said, and her bedroom felt cold at night and the ceiling, at times, glowed.

The alarmed woman contacted a medium, who claimed the doll was possessed by the spirit of 5-year-old Annabelle Higgins, who died in a car accident.

The spooked student gave the scary toy to Ed and Lorraine Warren, the now-deceased paranormal investigators portrayed in the Conjuring films, who encased it in a plexiglass box and stored it at their Occult Museum in Connecticut, later known as the New England Paranormal Research Center.

The facility closed in 2019 and the exhibits were taken on the Devils on the Run tour this year.

Spiritualist Miller warns the doll is a malevolent force that needs to be snuffed out.

“There are forces connected with that doll that human beings should not be meddling with,” she says. “It should be destroyed! It should be burned, at once!”