After the doll's handler, Dan Rivera, died suddenly while on tour with the real Annabelle, his friend pushes for the remaining stops to be axed.

But the most prominent and subtle antagonist of the series is the Annabelle doll that is a vessel to a demonic entity. The toy is based on a real one from the case files of the real Ed and Lorraine Warren,

Dan Rivera was the lead investigator for the New England Society for Psychic Research or N.E.S.P.R., an organization founded by famed, late Connecticut paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine