The possessed or haunted object (often anthropomorphic) is a mainstay of the horror genre, and for good reason. A doll or animatronic character has many of the features of a person but lacks the spark ...

Restless spirits can be sneaky little devils, sometimes literally, and find the most unlikely of places to hide out and show themselves when least expected. Nowhere is safe, not in bed, at a museum or ...

It’s a simple piece, made by my paternal great-grandfather, what one might call a “moveable kitchen counter,” with shelves on top going up to the ceiling. Underneath are four drawers down the center, ...

Typically, robots are built to perform a single task. To make them more adaptable, researchers from Yale University have developed a kind of “robotic skin” that transforms ordinary objects into ...

The first in a series of articles about all of the weird things that people put in places in their body, which then get stuck there. In short, decisions that make absolutely no sense. Location.

Seeing faces in common objects is not unusual. You might have seen the “man in the moon”, or seen faces in electrical outlets or sliced bell peppers. A new study from the National Institute of Mental ...

Oxytocin may be responsible for new mothers' heightened ability to see faces in inanimate objects, but more research is needed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

To be an inanimate object must be, I fancy, a very uninteresting affair. Certainly, being one appears to have a disastrous effect upon the disposition. No one who has had any intercourse with ...