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Just in case you needed some nightmare fuel for tonight, here's a wacky little tidbit for you: Thomas Edison's talking dolls' voices have been restored, and they're creepy AF. I'm not kidding. They ...

Move over, Chucky. Your creepy catchphrase “Friend to the end” has nothing on the sounds of these scary dolls. Just last month, New Jersey’s Thomas Edison National Historical Park posted a collection ...

She came out to play — and petrify. A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and “the stuff of nightmares.” Before ...

One of America’s greatest inventors reached a recording milestone with a nightmare-inducing talking doll. Historians have released never-before-heard recordings of the shrill, ghostly and down-right ...

Thomas Edison invented a lot of things, including the doll version of the day after tomorrow. In the 1800's Edison figured out a way to record sound and he brought that technology to dolls. So they ...

One man's cute is another man's creepy. Take talking dolls - a lot of people find them adorable. I feel more like that Telly Savals character in that old "Twilight Zone" episode. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW ...

When all was said and done, Thomas Edison would call his talking dolls his "little monsters." National Museum of American History Editor’s Note, December 18, 2020: A new Smithsonian Sidedoor podcast ...

Thomas Edison is remembered for his contributions to many great innovations, including the phonograph, the light bulb, and the movie camera. But few people today remember one of his most spectacular ...

Mattel’s new talking Hello Barbie doll encountered a fresh wave of hostility on Monday with the launch of a “#HellnoBarbie” social media campaign that contends its artificial intelligence capabilities ...

Thomas Edison’s phonograph company came out with a line of groundbreaking “talking” dolls in 1890. They lasted only six weeks before being yanked from stores, because the dolls sound like the risen ...