Historians have released never-before-heard recordings of the shrill, ghostly and down-right creepy voices inside Thomas Edison’s 1890 talking dolls, which were discontinued because they scared ...

Talking clocks and creepy dolls Scott’s recording beat out Frank Lambert, the inventor of the typewriter, and his Experimental Talking Clock as the first human audio recording.

A child wanders into the playroom and picks up her favorite doll, immaculately dressed in the latest doll fashions. The doll begins to scream, "LITTLE JACK HORNER," but the word "Horner" sounds ...

Megan is the latest in a long line of scary dolls in horror-screen history. Billy, Brahms, and Annabelle are all horrifying dolls in their own right.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has created an optical scanning method, dubbed Irene-3D, that can replicate the eerie voices of Thomas Edison's dolls.

They are so like us and yet they aren’t – and they can stir strange, unsettling feelings. Marquard Smith explains the uncanny power of the mannequin.