Matt Rife Now Owns Annabelle Doll Weeks After Dan Rivera’s Death

Comic Matt Rife simply made the scariest buy of his life.

The 29-year-old stand-up revealed Friday that he’s now the proud proprietor of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren’s notorious Connecticut residence and occult museum, which implies Matt Rife can be the brand new “authorized guardian” of some of the infamous haunted objects on this planet: the Annabelle doll.

Rife stated he teamed up along with his pal, YouTube star Elton Castee, to purchase the centuries-old Monroe farmhouse that when belonged to the real-life couple behind over 3,000 paranormal investigations, tales that went on to encourage horror classics like “The Conjuring” and “The Amityville Horror.”

“Ed and Lorraine Warren are who took demonology, ghost searching, and paranormal investigation and made it mainstream,” Rife defined to followers on TikTok, calling the house “some of the essential and outstanding items of paranormal historical past on this planet.”

Whereas Rife stayed tight-lipped on the precise buy value, he didn’t maintain again when it got here to hyping up the home’s bone-chilling contents.

“We plan to open the home for in a single day stays and museum excursions so that you your self can expertise and be taught all of the haunted historical past surrounding this superb place,” he wrote.

Not like the porcelain-faced Hollywood model, the true Annabelle is definitely an enormous Raggedy Ann doll.

Her chilling story started in 1970, when a nursing scholar named Donna obtained her as a present from her mom. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than unusual issues began occurring. The doll would shift positions by itself, go away behind creepy handwritten notes, and even appeared to have blood-like pink stains on her chest and fingers.

Issues acquired darker when a good friend claimed Annabelle tried to strangle him in his sleep and later wakened with mysterious scratches throughout his chest. That’s when Ed and Lorraine Warren had been known as in.

The famed investigators decided the doll wasn’t haunted by a baby’s spirit, as a medium first urged, however as a substitute was getting used as a conduit for a demonic entity.

The Annabelle legend solely grew darker after the sudden death of paranormal investigator Dan Rivera, who had most just lately been touring the doll throughout the nation as a part of the Devils on the Run exhibit. Rivera was discovered lifeless in his Pennsylvania lodge room on Sunday night time, July 13, simply hours after wrapping a sold-out three-day occasion in Gettysburg.

Adams County Coroner Francis Dutrow confirmed to PEOPLE that whereas Rivera’s physique was found inside his room, the notorious Annabelle doll was not current on the scene. The Pennsylvania State Police later issued a report, stating, “Members from PSP Gettysburg responded to a lodge in Straban Township, Adams County for a report of a deceased [man]. The decedent was found in his lodge room by staff.”

Authorities famous that “nothing uncommon or suspicious was noticed on the scene.”

Rife’s eerie new funding couldn’t come at a extra becoming time.

His massive reveal landed simply as Warner Bros. dropped the primary trailer for “The Conjuring: Final Rites,” the ultimate chapter within the billion-dollar horror franchise impressed by Ed and Lorraine Warren’s case information.

The sneak peek takes followers again to 1986, with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga returning because the famed demon-fighting duo. This time, they’re investigating the Smurl haunting in Pennsylvania, solely to find the entity tormenting the household is similar demon from their very first case.