Okay, What's with This "Annabelle" Doll?!

[CallMeKate]

I don't have an interest in the paranormal. At all. Never did. BUT I just saw this news story, and I absolutely love Gettysburg with a passion and visit as often as is humanly possible for me, so it caught my attention. Yes, I've had a few... uh... "creepy things happen" but the person I am tries desperately to find an explanation for them... if I can't, I work on forgetting/blocking.

So anyhow, what's with the "Annabelle doll?" Anyone hear other stories like this about it?

Paranormal investigator dies suddenly after hosting ‘Annabelle’ doll tour — Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Dan Rivera, 54, a lead paranormal educator for the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR), passed away suddenly after hosting the “Annabelle” doll tour in Gettysburg.

Rivera had just participated in the “Devils on the Run Tour” from July 11–13, where the infamous haunted doll from the Warren’s Occult Museum in Connecticut was brought to the Soldiers Orphanage Homestead.

Rivera helped lead a four-hour ghost hunt in Gettysburg, including stops at the Jennie Wade House and the Haunted Orphanage.

 

[ohioboy]

Spooky, but pure coincidence.

 

[Ted01]

I don't know, of course, but looked online for some refresher info and found this...
Annabelle: The True Story.
I had heard of it a while back.

Personally, I don't buy into this sort of stuff as it seems to be a phenomenon that is
pretty much wholly given to us by a particular group of people types who I just don't
find credible... not even a little.

But it has made for good entertainment for me over the years.

 

[Jules]

I‘d never heard of Annabelle until yesterday and low and behold there was a reference to her in a comment on Reddit.

A ‘speak of the devil‘ moment, if ever there was one.

 

[chic]

That was weird.

I do believe in the possibility of such things and avoid battlefields and/or places loaded with those dead by violence, except for my local cemetery where all of my loved ones are buried. I do go there and spend time whenever I can and pretty up the graves with flowers and other decorations appropriate for specific holidays. If there is any cosmic consciousness there amongst the dead, I think I am recognized by now as a friendly spirit who who would never do any harm.