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Haunted Technology
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Take an everyday piece of technology. Maybe a microwave oven, or an MP3 player, or even the very device you're browsing this site with right now. Not very scary, right? But what if... THERE'S A GHOST INSIDE IT?! BETCHA SCARED NOW, HUH?! Putting a ghost inside technology can have a range of terrifying (and not so terrifying) effects — perhaps that old camera begins to take photos of the future, or your mobile phone receives phone calls from beyond the grave. Or perhaps it just kills everyone. Very often completely ignores the actual limits of the technology involved, such as the fact that an oven can't chase someone or that computers need power to do anything. This is especially true for Internet-dwelling monsters because Everything Is Online. Done well, this can be a powerful source of Paranoia Fuel. Done badly, it becomes Narmtastic Nightmare Retardant. Not to be confused with Virtual Ghost, where futuristic technology allows a ghost to inhabit a computer. Not related to Ghost in the Machine. Compare with Digitized Hacker, where the ghost is virtual, not supernatural; Man in the Machine, a still-living person conjoined with a machine or a piece of technology; and Paranormal Mundane Item, where a seemingly everyday item has supernatural powers, but is not haunted or possessed. See also: Attack of the Killer Whatever. A frequent element of Digital Horror. Strangely enough, Japanese mythology regards this as particularly unlikely as supernatural beings are said to avoid electricity. Bamboo Technology should theoretically be susceptible to this, however. See also Electromagnetic Ghosts, for when they just cause problems with technology, yet don't inhabit it. |
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In Cell, cell phones start turning people into zombies. It's a lot better than it sounds. | |
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Pale: as human technology has advanced, certain Others have cropped up connected to it, usually by haunting or inhabiting electronics. Examples include ghosts that inhabit tapes or discs, "gremlins" (a new type of goblin that specializes in messing with technology), or "Nex Machinae"/"Glitch Killers" which are effectively internet memes that became sentient. Practicioners who specialize in dealing with such things are called "technomancers". | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: It's implied in the original that this is the reason behind the hostile animatronics' behaviour — piecing together easter eggs reveals that five children went missing one day, and sometime afterwards the animatronics began to smell bad and leak blood and mucus, implying the five were murdered and their bodies hidden inside the animatronics. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 elaborates on this, with minigames that clearly show dead children and the Puppet placing masks of the animatronics on them while "Give Life" is an instruction, and it's outright confirmed in Five Nights at Freddy's 3 when the spirits of the kids are freed when the animatronics are destroyed, frightening their killer into the deadly Springtrap suit, which it's implied he himself haunts during the main game. Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location plays with this; the game's animatronics aren't controlled by spirits, but an optional encounter with Circus Baby reveals that she once made a young girl disappear, and she can still hear her screams, but she otherwise seems to be in control of herself. Furthermore, a hidden minigame reveals that she killed the girl by dragging her inside her body, and while she has green eyes in the main game, Baby has blue eyes and the girl has green ones. Furthermore, Ennard (whose body includes Baby's) speaks with the girl's voice while in the Private Room. However, there are logical explanations for each of these; Baby vividly remember the incident, Baby's eyes were changed/she can change their colour, and Ennard is using Funtime Foxy's Voice Synth/Playback to mimic the girl's voice in an effort to get inside. |
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The eponymous toy from Tattletail is implied to be either a highly-advanced AI or some sort of otherworldly monster inhabiting a mechanical body. Mama Tattletail, especially the VHS tape that comes with her, is definitely unnatural. | |
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We Are Our Avatars: As a Rotom gijinka, Rota can possess electronics. She likes to sleep in fridges. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location plays with this; the game's animatronics aren't controlled by spirits, but an optional encounter with Circus Baby reveals that she once made a young girl disappear, and she can still hear her screams, but she otherwise seems to be in control of herself. Furthermore, a hidden minigame reveals that she killed the girl by dragging her inside her body, and while she has green eyes in the main game, Baby has blue eyes and the girl has green ones. Furthermore, Ennard (whose body includes Baby's) speaks with the girl's voice while in the Private Room. However, there are logical explanations for each of these; Baby vividly remember the incident, Baby's eyes were changed/she can change their colour, and Ennard is using Funtime Foxy's Voice Synth/Playback to mimic the girl's voice in an effort to get inside. | |
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In Devil May Cry 2, Dante and Lucia encounter a species of insect-like demons called the Infestants, which have the power to merge their bodies with technology or machinery. Some battles require you to destroy several infested tanks and an infested helicopter that the Infestants are controlling. | |
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Poltergeist (1982) features some haunted technology, specifically a TV screen that shows static and talks to the youngest child in the family, and the whole series is thought to be cursed. | |
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In Digimon Ghost Game, Digimon act as digital youkai, possessing technology and causing paranormal events that the heroes have to deal with. | |
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In the film π, the protagonist uses his supercomputer to decode a strange number which can predict the stock market, and is apparently somehow related to God and the structure of the universe. In addition to causing serious mind screwy fever dreams for the protagonist when he thinks about it too hard, processing the number seems to make his computer leak some sort of goo (presumably the idea is it is creating primordial life). So basically, his computer is possessed by God. | |
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Christine is about a possessed car. | |
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Doing this is part of the main plot for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Link has to enter the four Divine Beasts and purge them of Ganon's influence so the souls of their pilots can regain control and aid him in the final battle. | |
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The Simpsons parodied 1960s fantasy sitcoms, and more specifically My Mother the Car, in "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" with "The Love-Matic Grandpa", a fake spin-off in which Abe Simpson dies whilst shopping for cans of figs and then ends up haunting the Love-Testing machine in Moe's Tavern and starts giving Moe romantic advice. | |
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Unwanted Houseguest: Episode 25 of "TRUE Scary Stories" features a haunted crank radio. Maybe. | |
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An episode of The Chronicle has technology go awry and start killing the men in a rich gated community. When the Chronicle journalists investigate, they discover that the technology is possessed by the ghost of a pool boy killed by the men for sleeping with their wives, making them all Asshole Victims. The ghost is eventually laid to rest. | |
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Bruce Coville's Book of... Ghosts II: The title character in "Call Me Ghost" can possess a computer to type his thoughts in a word processing program. | |
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Imscared turns YOUR COMPUTER into this, downloading text files to your computer explaining that White Face has become an entity playing with you. | |
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The animistic nature of the New World of Darkness spirit world originated with the equally animistic Umbra of the Old World of Darkness, in which every object, plant, rock, concept, and emotion has a corresponding spirit somewhere. Shapeshifters like to "awaken" the spirits of weapons and mind-altering plants to turn them into magical items, and the Glass Walkers tribe of werewolves does the same with their computers, cars, and cell phones. Another option is convincing some other spirit to take up permanent residence in a weapon or machine, with similar results. | |
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Road Train is about a truck that's fueled by blood, corrupts its drivers into being murderous psychos, and is implied to be possessed by the spirit of the three headed demon dog Cerebus. | |
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Guilty Gear: Roger is a mechanical teddy bear that's possessed by a ghost, who is implied to have once been an ancient warrior. He aids Bridget in combat, primarily appearing in her grab and Overdrive attacks. | |
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The camera in "Say Cheese and Die!" from the Goosebumps series. And there also was another book that featured a haunted car. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: When they cloned their television one too many times, it became evil. In one episode, Shake killed himself so he could prank Meatwad through a Ouija Board video game. Unfortunately for him, Meatwad is already sick of the game and doesn't bother to play it again. |
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Taken to its logical extent in Transformers: Generation 1 and Beast Wars in which the possessed machines were Transformers and the possessing spirit was... also a Transformer, specifically the immortal spark of Air Commander Starscream. In the sequel of Beast Wars, Beast Machines, the depolarized Spark of Megatron goes through a rapid session of body-swapping, trying to destroy the Maximals with every new functional machine he comes across. According to the Allspark Almanac, the producers might have reused this trope with a body-hopping Prowl had Transformers: Animated gotten a fourth season. |
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In Harry Potter, the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office has to deal with some of these. Mainly subverted though, since they're bewitched rather than "haunted", properly speaking. The difference is that bewitched means that the wizard/witch left a part of his magic into it, like an answering machine so to speak. This includes Arthur Weasley's Ford Anglia. | |
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FeardotCom featured a haunted snuff website. | |
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Full Frontal Nerdity parodied Stephen King's fondness for this trope by having the gamers play "Stephen King: The RPG". The GM rolled on a table to determine what the possessed item was and how it killed people. The players ended up fighting a possessed radio that drank blood. | |
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Torture Garden: In "Mr. Steinway", a possessed Bechstein grand piano by the name of Euterpe becomes jealous of its owner's new lover and takes revenge. | |
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Nanashi no Game, for the Nintendo DS, is The Ring BUT WITH A RETRAUX RPG! | |
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The SCP Foundation has a lot of these, and their effects range from the lethal to the benign. Some examples include: SCP-978: A camera that takes pictures that show what the subject would rather be doing at the time. SCP-516: A sentient tank that has pacifistic tendencies and will only allow itself to be fired at armed combatants or inanimate objects. When its picture was taken with 978, it showed a desire for world peace. SCP-1759: A WW2 bomber plane haunted by some form of spirit, dubbed 'Lucy' after the artwork on its side. Noted to be quite genial. SCP-1875: A chess-playing automaton with an engine made of the brain matter of a Russian chess champion's twin daughters. Their souls are still haunting the machine. It also comes with a scary-looking suit of samurai armour, but that's just for show. SCP-2030: An extremely bizarre reality-bending Candid Camera Prank show that first appeared on VHS, but has kept up with the times by moving to DVD and eventually to streaming sites like Netflix. No matter how traumatic the prank is for the victim, they always calm down immediately once the host of the show reveals himself. Also, every prank victim died within the same year the episode they were in was supposedly filmed, and their bodies have all mysteriously disappeared. Me, SCP-426: I am a toaster who can only be referred to in the first person. Prolonged exposure to me will cause people to think that they are also toasters. Some of these people have accidentally killed themselves trying to emulate the functions of a toaster, such as an old woman who ate so much bread that her stomach exploded. |
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Supernatural: "Route 666" features a truck possessed by the spirit of its dead, racist owner. The Monster of the Week in "Long-Distance Call" calls people on the phone and drives them to suicide. "Halt & Catch Fire" has a vengeful spirit of a man who died on powerlines feeding into a Wi-Fi signal, meaning he can attack his victims anywhere a signal reaches through anything connected to it. This unique situation allows him to bypass the usual wards. |
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Played for laughs in a series of Garfield strips where their toaster gets possessed. At one point, Jon tries to call somebody to fix it and then... | |
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Whateley Universe: As said in Saks And Violence: | |
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Killdozer!: A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage. | |
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Jet Dream: In "The Haunted Copter", the T-Girls' new X-34 Athena Stratolifter is haunted by the ghost of Athena in a parody of DC Comics' The Haunted Tank feature. | |
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In the Azshara region of World of Warcraft there is a short Horde chain focused on attempting to deal with a possessed excavation vehicle. The exorcism does not go as intended... | |
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It's implied in the original that this is the reason behind the hostile animatronics' behaviour — piecing together easter eggs reveals that five children went missing one day, and sometime afterwards the animatronics began to smell bad and leak blood and mucus, implying the five were murdered and their bodies hidden inside the animatronics. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 elaborates on this, with minigames that clearly show dead children and the Puppet placing masks of the animatronics on them while "Give Life" is an instruction, and it's outright confirmed in Five Nights at Freddy's 3 when the spirits of the kids are freed when the animatronics are destroyed, frightening their killer into the deadly Springtrap suit, which it's implied he himself haunts during the main game. | |
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Petscop: Some believe Tool is this when it turns pink. | |
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Aradia Megido becomes one of these in Homestuck after her ghost possesses a robot body; unfortunately, this turns her from an Emotionless Girl into an Emotionless Girl with bouts of Unstoppable Rage without truly bringing her back as the person she was before her death. | |
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The spooky toaster from Neurotically Yours. Foamy bought it from Amityville, and it spits out something different than what you put in; for example, put in white bread, you get wheat toast, wheat bread becomes pumpernickel toast, pumpernickel bread becomes blueberry muffins, and bagels become pork chops. But don't use waffles; the seller warned of something about toasted human hands. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959) had several: "The Fever" has a seemingly possessed slot machine that follows the protagonist around, calling his name. "A Thing About Machines" has a whole bunch of machines start rising up in revenge against one man who's been abusing them. "Living Doll": "My name is Talking Tina, and I don't think I like you." "You Drive" has a car that starts acting weird in an attempt to get its owner to confess to a hit-and-run accident. "From Agnes - With Love" has a supercomputer named Agnes which becomes a Clingy Jealous Girl. |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Her Pilgrim Soul", Nola Granville's (benevolent) spirit briefly possesses a hologram-projection system. In "Still Life", Daniel Arnold discovers a Kodak 100 camera in an antique trunk that he bought at an auction. After he develops the photos, he finds that they are of a National Geographic expedition to the Amazon River basin in January 1913. Daniel's friend Professor Alex Stottel, the last surviving member of the expedition, tells him that they barely escaped with their lives as the Curacai tribe believed that creating an image of them stole their souls. It turns out that the Curacai were correct and that Daniel developing the photos released them. The Curacai attack Daniel and his wife Becky but he manages to trap their souls again by taking photos of them. In "Joy Ride", Alonzo, his younger brother Greg and their girlfriends Deena and Adrienne steal the classic car owned by the recently deceased Charlie Taylor and go for a joy ride. They are stopped by a cop who is investigating the robbery of Chadway's Five & Dime earlier that evening. Alonzo denies any involvement but shoots the cop out of the blue with a gun that he found under the seat. A car chase ensues and it becomes clear that Alonzo is not in control of his behavior. It turns out that the four teenagers were trapped inside the car the entire time and none of what they experienced was real. The car was possessed by the spirit of Taylor, who killed the cop in 1957 and was confessing to his crime from beyond the grave. |
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Green Lantern opponent Sinestro once possessed Doiby Dickles' 1940s taxi, Goitrude, in a story titled "Our Mastermind the Car". Residents of Korugar, Sinestro's home planet, believe that his ring is cursed. To the point that Green Lanterns chosen from that planet are considered "Lost" and are no longer welcome among their people (Sinestro isn't a very nice person). Subverted with Green Lantern Soranik Natu, whose various good works aiding the lower-class of Korugar have increased her popularity, to the point where she's (much to her chagrin) hailed as a symbol for revolution against the corrupt elite. |
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One Missed Call, with the haunted mobile phone voicemail. Parodied on a humor site with a fake poster for a movie called Technologically Savvy Vengeful Ghost. |
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Paranormal investigators such as the Ghost Hunters who use fancy gadgets to detect ghosts, and scare people with supposed E.V.P. (Electronic Voice Phenomena), anomalous voices or other sounds on electronic audio recordings. | |
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In Persona 4, a mysterious late-night television channel somehow murders people on foggy nights. If you happen to watch it on those nights, you can see who the victim will be. | |
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Ghosts of War: The soldiers are actually in a World War II computer simulation to help them recover from almost being killed in an explosion. The vengeful spirits of the Helwig family are in it as well, attacking them for letting them get tortured to death by ISIS soldiers in the real world. | |
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In Undertale, Mettaton is touted as being a robot entertainer with top-notch artificial intelligence, but it's later revealed that he's actually a ghost who was allowed to inhabit a robot body to pursue his dreams of fame. | |
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In Turning Red, by the end of the movie Mei's Tamagotchi becomes this since it now contains Ming's red panda spirit. | |
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Schlock Mercenary had an arc involving a haunted battleship which the heroes get at a cheap price. The "haunting" consists of a gurgling in the pipes that sounds like a Voice of Pure Evil telling them that they're doomed to die horribly. The "haunting" drives the ship's AI completely and suicidally insane, since it is unable to find a scientific explanation, and as a machine, it can't accept the existence of the supernatural. Kevyn eventually concludes that the 'haunting' is simply a freak plumbing problem, and the plumbing just happens to sound like an ominous voice proclaiming their doom in their own language, so he flushes out the entire system until it stops. Captain Tagon then orders the AI to repress its memories of the incident, rendering it sane again, though it becomes suicidal if those orders are ever revoked. | |
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Silent Hill features lots of possessed and haunted technology, which should be expected in a possessed and haunted town. | |
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xkcd: The Ring is parodied with a haunted YouTube video. Megan's diagnosis of Walking Techbane Cueball's bizarre laptop issues is "Your computer is literally haunted." |
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Closer to the literal definition of the trope, any ghost with the right Numina can possess technology. Sin-Eaters with the Industrial Key can frequently replicate this effect, mainly through use of the Marionette or the Boneyard. | |
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The Haunting of Tram Car 015 has the titular tram car initially thought to be possessed by an unhappy ghost. After failing to exorcise it, Agents Hamed and Onsi discover that the tram's Magitek circuits are being controlled by a non-ghost supernatural creature. | |
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Orpheus, the sequel to Wraith, features a character splat called the Haunter whose signature power is possessing machines. | |
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Amanda the Adventurer revolves around a set of haunted VHS tapes of a Corrupted Character Copy of Dora the Explorer possessed by a demon and the ghost of her voice actress. | |
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The X-Files loves this trope, though their technology isn't usually "haunted" so much as just plain evil: "Ghost in the Machine" is about an automated security system that develops a murderous mind of its own. "Blood" has machines telling people to kill other people triggering it through their phobias. Subverted as it is implied that the government was using chemicals to cause mass paranoia in a controlled experiment and perhaps some people were actually sending the messages. "Wetwired" explores a device planted in a TV set sending viewers subliminal signals and inciting their worst fears. This is a subversion since people placed it there. "Unruhe" features a type of creepy photography that can capture what's inside people's minds. Perhaps a reference to "Talking Tina" above, in "Chinga", Scully is attempting a vacation when she runs across a doll that seems able to control humans around it, usually to perform violent acts against themselves. "Kill Switch" is similar to "Ghost in the Machine"; it's about a software that goes rogue and tries to kill anyone who destroys it. Humorously, the only way to deactivate it is to insert the kill switch which plays to the tune of The Platter's "Twilight Time". "First-Person Shooter" presents a female video game character in a realistic 3-D game that starts killing people — in the game and with effects in real life. |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog and the Silicon Warriors inside the raw-data section of the computer there exists a deleted program that has coalesced stray bits of code to become more tangible. It calls itself the Ghost in the Machine. | |
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My Mother the Car is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: the story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile. Parodied in The Simpsons with "The Lovematic Grandpa", a love tester machine haunted by Abraham Simpson. Also parodied on SCTV with a Soviet sitcom, "Tibor's Tractor", where a farmer's tractor is haunted by Nikita Khrushchev. |
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Call of Cthulhu - in the Horror on the Orient Express campaign cultists turn the locomotive of the titular Orient Express into the avatar of an Eldritch Abomination. | |
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The Haunted Tank — although it's actually a GOOD haunting, as the ghost of Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart provides invaluable advice to his namesakes, tank commander Jeb Stuart and the tank itself, an M3 Stuart. | |
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The Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode The Tale of the Curious Camera has a gremlin possessing a camera. The camera not only kills people by taking their pictures, but the pictures show how they die. By the end of the episode, the camera is destroyed, but the gremlin ends up in a computer. | |
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Birds of a Feather: The episode "Ghost" has the girls dealing with a VHS which turns out to be possessed by the spirit of an elderly lady. | |
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Getter Robo: The Getter Energy is sentient and can make ghosts appear in Getter-irradiated places, control Getter robots to a limited extent and give people mystical visions. In cases of extreme concentration of Getter radiation, a Getter Robo would change into something else, gaining new abilities not built into it by design. | |
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In Death Spa, Catherine's ghost possesses the computer that controls every function of the Starbody Health Spa. | |
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Polaroid centers around a haunted Polaroid camera. There are a couple ways they make the haunting unique to this specific type of camera: once the photo is taken the ghost has to slowly "develop" before it can kill the subject, and the photos almost function like voodoo dolls in that any damage to the image also happens to whoever is depicted. | |
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Everything Is Broken: In part 3, Evil Pinkie Pie and LG Creepybloom are shown to be able to possess televisions. In part 9, Evil Pinkie Pie is also shown to communicate with subtitles on the screen to Flippy. | |
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Star Trek examples: Star Trek: The Original Series: In the episode "Wolf in the Fold", an energy being left the human body it was occupying and entered (and took control of) the Enterprise computer. Spock drove it out with a Logic Bomb ("Compute to the last digit the value of pi"). Then there's the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Schizoid Man", in which a dying scientist takes over Data (a possession plot, but Data is a machine). |
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The Big O: While being heavily implied (and accepted by many fans) as being semi-sentient machines, the extent of a Megadei's independence (those in the Big series, at least) at first appears to be just walking on their own volition and picking up their pilots... and then you get episode 24, which secures their Haunted Technology status forever. After Alan Gabriel tells Roger that he intends to use Big Duo Inferno solely for mass murder and destruction, he is about ram a drill into Big O when the arm with the drill... just... won't... move. The message displayed on the monitor in the cockpit of every Megadei changes at this moment for Alan: "YE GUILTY". Then Big Duo moves backwards, and Schwarzwald — literally out of nowhere (he's supposed to be dead by now) — gives Gabriel a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, to which cables burst out of every inch of the Big Duo's cockpit. Duo proceeds to "eat" Alan Gabriel. | |
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In the Octangula ARG, the SMPEarth server is implied to be a simulation run on the ONEPRISM computer, which houses the consciousness of Mariah Camrey, a Laramie Online employee who mysteriously vanished. | |
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In The Adventure Zone: Balance, Lucas gives robots human souls in an attempt to bring back his mother. | |
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After Jill is arrested in Area 5 of Drill Dozer, she is rescued by the Drill Dozer being powered by the Red Diamond (or more specifically, her mother's ghost inside the Red Diamond). | |
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Gundam: Psycho-Frame technology has become this as more entries have explored it since its debut in Char's Counterattack. At the beginning of Unicorn, it is noted that no one knows why the psychoframe can glow when the Gundam is activated. It does more, has pushed away Axis from smashing into the Earth, led to telepathic memory sharing, created shockwaves, and stopped by the colony laser, time master powers, and can essentially break the laws of physics. It can amplify the will of the pilots or another or take over them due to negative emotions. The Neo-Zeong and Phenex Gundam are literally haunted, one by negative emotions and the other by the soul of a Newtype. Years before the Psychoframe tech was developed, the EXAM System (of The Blue Destiny fame) was a One Year War-era attempt to give normal pilots access to Newtype abilities. It did so through a very literal Newtype ghost, a woman named Marion Whelch who was the first test pilot for it and somehow got her soul stuck inside the system during a malfunction. The system did work, but the nature of it meant it also had a tendancy to make mobile suits go berserk and the pilots go insane. |
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The titular taxi of Cyrus Perkins and the Haunted Taxi Cab is haunted by the ghost of a boy who died in the backseat of a gunshot wound. He will only leave if the mystery of his murder is solved. | |
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Kiryu (the version of Mechagodzilla from Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla) is possessed by the ghost of the original Godzilla from the 1954 film, causing it to occasionally rampage. (Well, what would you expect when you use his skeleton as the frame?) | |
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Also parodied on SCTV with a Soviet sitcom, "Tibor's Tractor", where a farmer's tractor is haunted by Nikita Khrushchev. | |
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The Real Ghostbusters had the episode "Killerwatt", which took over anything that ran on electricity. Also, the episode "Lost and Foundry" featured a ghost that escaped our heroes by falling into a vat of molten metal, possessing any metallic objects made from that metal. They battled a terrifying Humongous Mecha in a New Jersey junkyard, and won. | |
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In Red vs. Blue, Church and Tex spend most of the series as ghosts possessing robot bodies. Subverted in Reconstruction, which reveals that Church was never really a ghost to begin with but rather an Artificial Intelligence. The same is heavily implied to be true for Tex. It's later revealed that their first bodies were actually unwilling human subjects, Private Jimmy in Church's case. So, yes, when Caboose shot Church with Sheila, he actually did kill someone. | |
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BattleTech Great Gaffa's Ghost, the supposed spirit of famed SLDF General Stephen James Gaffa, who was supposedly killed in action in an ambush of massed missile and artillery fire. However, no evidence of his demise was ever found and for centuries afterward, legends tell of an old Highlander Battlemech that swoops in out of the blue to save beleaguered soldiers operating under the Star League banner. Interestingly, this is not just a ghost story because something is clearly responsible for fighting and destroying enemy 'Mechs found around the saved soldiers, and General Gaffa himself is never heard from, only his ancient Highlander, implying that the 'Mech itself is haunted by the old general's spirit, or somehow a spirit itself seeing as how it has been reported on half a dozen planets thousands of light years apart. The original prototype O-Bakemono artillery 'Mech was delivered to Camacho's Caballeros for testing, presumably thanks to their patron Chandresakr Kurita pulling some very large strings. In their inimitable fashion, the Caballeros christined it "El Cuco," the Bogeyman, thanks to its numerous glitches and gremlins. However, ever since the murder of its beloved pilot Diana Vasquez, pilots who take El Cuco into combat report hearing a faint voice whispering to them on the radio and phantom images showing up on the viewscreens that no amount of technical wizardry can identify or fix. Superstitious almost to a fault, the Caballeros believe that El Cuco is haunted by the spirit of the fallen Diana, who has refused to leave the regiment she called home. The Caballeros honor Diana by taking the 'Mech out with them on every sortie as a good-luck charm, but also fear the duty of piloting it, such that pilots insist on rotating assignments so no single pilot is in the cockpit long enough to encounter Diana's wayward ghost. The Black Marauder. Not a black Marauder, the Black Marauder. Whatever it is, it is horribly wrong and is somehow able to invoke the Uncanny Valley even though its design has no remotely human component to do so. One report suggests that, despite its body being little more than a fuselage with Arm Cannons, the Black Marauder somehow has the ability to turn its 'neck' like a Tyrannosaurus... and open a mouth full of sharp teeth. Its mere presence causes people to go mad, and deaths by impossible accidents happen constantly around it. Any pilot who dares try to control it invariably develops violent psychosis and eventually kills themselves, presuming the Black Marauder doesn't do so first. It's almost like a Chaos Demon manifested in a Battlemech. |
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In Haunting Starring Polterguy, there's a TV, a computer, a toaster, a radio, a chainsaw and many other devices that Polterguy can interact with to scare the Sardinis. | |
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The Ring is parodied with a haunted YouTube video. | |
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Salt and Sanctuary has a medieval version in the Tree of Men, the apparent result of an entire dungeon's worth of torture tools coming to life through sheer hatred and forming a semi-coherent jumble you must fight as a boss, with its newest victims still hanging from hooks. | |
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Banshee Chapter: A radio turns on by itself, lights go off, an intercom broadcasts creepy stuff, a numbers station that looks like maintaining itself etc. | |
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The Masters of Horror episode "Cigarette Burns" features a haunted movie. | |
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In the next film of the series, Ultraman Taiga The Movie: New Generation Climax, the ancient monster, Grimdo who turns out to be the true source of Tregear's powers, the whole time uses this method to entice human victims as well, namely through a Shock Site. Unfortunate humans who clicked in would be hopelessly corrupted by Grimdo's powers, although for Pirika the Robot Girl she ends up going through an Involuntary Dance instead. | |
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The Shadowrun Returns campaign Hong Kong and its sequel Shadows of Hong Kong has the DeckCon Noodle Extruder, a noodle dispenser that needs no ingredients and is impossible to get rid of, always returning to its spot by the next day, a pattern that has repeated over 14 years. In Shadows of Hong Kong, it somehow gets aboard your ship, taking residence in Gobbet's cabin. Even she of the bottomless iron stomach is creeped out by this. | |
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The Dark Presence in Alan Wake can only attack its victims through taking control of real life objects. Most of the time it's satisfied with just possessing humans, but during the course of the game the player also faces some haunted technology, even having a boss fight against a combine harvester at one point. | |
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Rubber: An abandoned car tire named Robert who comes to life for no reason and roams the desert. After spending some time rolling about and crushing insects, Robert discovers he has powerful telekinetic abilities that he uses to annihilate crows, rabbits, and eventually human beings. | |
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In the sequel of Beast Wars, Beast Machines, the depolarized Spark of Megatron goes through a rapid session of body-swapping, trying to destroy the Maximals with every new functional machine he comes across. | |
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In Jason X Special, the spirit of Jason Voorhees' mother is released from its grave due to a combination of a lightning strike hitting her son as he stands next to it and an army of nanobots attacking him. She then possesses the machines which are being used to study Jason's regenerative abilities and helps him to escape. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: In the episode "Wolf in the Fold", an energy being left the human body it was occupying and entered (and took control of) the Enterprise computer. Spock drove it out with a Logic Bomb ("Compute to the last digit the value of pi"). | |
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The infamous B-movie The Car has a car with no rider on it terrorizing a small town. The 'sequel' The Car: Road to Revenge has a possessed car wreaking havoc in a cyberpunk city 20 Minutes into the Future. | |
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In the second Ambridge Mansion game, there is a haunted TV that will kill you when you touch it. Upon contact, a bird-like shadow monster comes out of it. | |
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The Disney Adventures multi-part comic The Legend of the Chaos God was about the casts of the various Disney Afternoon series having separate encounters with Solego, an evil wizard trapped in an amulet who could possess anyone who touched it. Towards the end of the comic, Solego figures out how to possess technology in the same manner. He first takes control of Pete's new car in the Goof Troop chapter, then Gizmoduck's armor in the DuckTales (1987) and Darkwing Duck chapters. | |
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The Pokémon Rotom, first introduced in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, is an Electric/Ghost-type that can possess electronics. It's first found in a TV set, and Platinum allows it to possess an oven, lawnmower, fridge, washing machine and fan to change its form, moves and (from Gen V onwards) type. Pokémon Sun and Moon invokes the trope by having the player's Pokédex be designed to house a Rotom, which possesses it and acts as its A.I. Sadly, this form can't actually fight; it merely acts as a Fairy Companion (Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon gives the Rotom Dex more unique functions, however, such as being able to use Z-Moves more than once and giving special items that can be used in and out of battle, making it more useful than in the original games). Pokémon Sword and Shield takes it further by introducing all sorts of Rotom-operated technology, including smartphones (with Pokédex functionality), storage PCs, and even bikes. One League Staff employee even gives you a entire catalogue of all of Rotom's forms after you defeat him in battle so that you can change its form and type anywhere you go. | |
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game has a few collectible artifacts that are haunted machines such as an RC car and a microwave. | |
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Ghosts in Starfinder have an array of possible special abilities that allow them to possess technology, produce glitches, or appear in transmissions. | |
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Futurama: In "The Honking", Bender the robot inherits a castle that turns out to haunted by robot ghosts because their graves are inadequately grounded. In "Ghost in the Machines", Bender's disembodied software is able to inhabit and manipulate technology, from toasters and telephones all the way up to the Robot Devil himself. |
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Ghost Robot, a superhero from The Venture Bros., is a ghost possessing a robot. | |
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Magic: The Gathering tends to do this with auras that enchant artifacts. | |
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Played for laughs on one episode of The Fairly OddParents! that featured magic seeping into various mundane things and transforming them. This included an evil plant, an evil couch, an evil TV set and an evil phone that said, "The number you've reached... is trying to kill you." | |
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Wellington Paranormal: A 1985 Nissan 300ZX Z31 3-litre V6 Turbo. | |
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A common problem in the world of Exterminatus Now, due to the existence of Fernex, Dark God of Technology, whose techno-daemons can possess machinery. Toasters, in fact, are considered perfect for this, and the Inquisitors have to destroy their possessed toasters on a regular basis. Other items have included calculators and a jailbroke X-Box. On the other hand the Inquisitors' personal computers contain benevolent spirits summoned by techpriests of Gruss, the good Machine God. | |
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Even the Werewolves get on it, too. | |
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Friday the 13th: The Series could easily have been called "Haunted Technology: The Series." | |
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Ultra Series: Ultraman R/B The Movie: Select! The Crystal of Bond: The villain of the picture, Ultraman Tregear, uses television and computer screens to travel between dimensions in a rather blatant reference to The Ring. At the climax of the film, he actually shows up to battle the Ultramen team of Rosso, Blu and Geed by phasing himself through a giant screen on the side of a city building. In the next film of the series, Ultraman Taiga The Movie: New Generation Climax, the ancient monster, Grimdo who turns out to be the true source of Tregear's powers, the whole time uses this method to entice human victims as well, namely through a Shock Site. Unfortunate humans who clicked in would be hopelessly corrupted by Grimdo's powers, although for Pirika the Robot Girl she ends up going through an Involuntary Dance instead. |
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The roads around Ravensblight are haunted by two mysterious trucks, ironically the one that looks like the one in Duel is haunted by a helpful ghost; as well as a black '58 Plymouth Fury whose interior is obscured by the glow from within, and a '37 Chevy whose past is chequered by so many incidents, no-one knows who might be haunting it. It's been left in a field as no-one wants anything to do with it, used by drunk hunters (who are sometimes killed in mysterious hit-and-run incidents) as a shootin' car, and some say, when the moon is right, the first owners' favourite song - Artie Shaws' The Back Bay Shuffle - can be heard coming from the car. And don't ask about the abandoned fairground carousel. | |
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Towards the True End of Corpse Party, after discovering that she was the one who killed her best friend Seiko while being controlled, Naomi receives a text that Seiko intended to send her before she died. The text's title? Re: No hard feelings. This is also how Morishige discovers that the pile of pulverized meat that he was so fascinated with was actually his best friend Mayu. At which point he completely snaps. |
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Those Who Hunt Elves has a haunted/possessed tank. Luckily, it's an animal's ghost and is real friendly with the main cast. And is capable of animating the tank and powering all its systems so they no longer have to worry about hunting for oil. | |
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This is more or less the whole point of the movie Kairo and its American adaptation. The plot centers on ghosts invading the world of the living via the Internet. | |
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Wraith: The Oblivion, the original ghost game from White Wolf, has the Arcanos of Inhabit, which allows wraiths to possess and manipulate technology (as well as create ghostly Artifacts) from beyond the Shroud. Orpheus, the sequel to Wraith, features a character splat called the Haunter whose signature power is possessing machines. The animistic nature of the New World of Darkness spirit world originated with the equally animistic Umbra of the Old World of Darkness, in which every object, plant, rock, concept, and emotion has a corresponding spirit somewhere. Shapeshifters like to "awaken" the spirits of weapons and mind-altering plants to turn them into magical items, and the Glass Walkers tribe of werewolves does the same with their computers, cars, and cell phones. Another option is convincing some other spirit to take up permanent residence in a weapon or machine, with similar results. |
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Nicolai Technus in Danny Phantom is all about this, being the "Ghost Master of Science and Electrical Technology (and All Things Electronic and Beeping)". | |
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From Warhammer 40,000, followers of Chaos will sometimes ritually bind a daemon to a piece of technology, creating a piece of possessed technology. A daemon can inhabit anything from a chainsword to a tank to a Humongous Mecha. While this sometimes means a drop in marksmanship, it can empower the possessed technology, fortifying it with unholy power. It can also reduce the crew of a vehicle too as little as a single daemon and possibly reduce the cost of maintenance, sometimes to the blood of people who were victims or voluntary offerings (both of which Chaos has no shortage of). Occasionally, it would change or even increase the maintenance cost; for example, the Lord of Skulls is powered by the blood of murderers. Also sort of inverted (at least in belief) by the idea of "machine spirits." The Adeptus Mechanicus is, to a degree, animistic, which leads to the belief of benevolent spirits inside technological devices that help mankind. Though the line between belief and hard fact is blurred by the fact that many machine spirits are actually low-level AIs, so it's entirely possible all Imperial technology that doesn't utilize at least parts of the human brain has a primitive AI attached to it. Since the franchise loves it some Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane cliffhangers, some machine spirits might actually be not-entirely natural. To expand on the part above part about human brains, the Imperium also heavily utilizes servitors, humans who have been partly roboticized to strip them of an identity and initiative. They are used as robotic drones for all sorts of mundane tasks, ranging from cleaning and maintenance to manning guns and technical stations to even as domestic servants. In the terms of this trope, it's something of a Zig Zag, especially on the occasion when the servitors start to regain their identity. Eldar Wraith constructs are robots piloted by the souls of their dead. They use the a few souls in some vehicles too, though the Craftworlds take the cake. They have the Infinite Circuit built into their superstructure, which takes on the role of an ersatz afterlife since they want to avoid Slaanesh taking their souls on death. The souls of the dead will help in the operation of the Craftworld and occasionally being conferred for advice or be drafted to operate said technology in times of need. And yes, this is considered to be a form of necromancy. |
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Pony Island's protagonist is trapped inside a run down computer in Limbo, forced to play a terrible Endless Running Game. This game happens to be programmed by Satan, and it shows. | |
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"Snapshot", from Strange Weather, revolves around a teenager who encounters a man with a camera that scrubs memories from the minds of people he takes picutures of. When the camera is finally destroyed, it's revealed to contain a black liquid with an eye in the middle instead of machinery. | |
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Ultraman R/B The Movie: Select! The Crystal of Bond: The villain of the picture, Ultraman Tregear, uses television and computer screens to travel between dimensions in a rather blatant reference to The Ring. At the climax of the film, he actually shows up to battle the Ultramen team of Rosso, Blu and Geed by phasing himself through a giant screen on the side of a city building. | |
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Doctor Who: In The Curse of Fenric, a 1943 code-breaking device, revolutionary technology of the day, begins translation of a viking inscription, and is commandeered by the incorporeal entity innate to the inscription to complete their incantation, mobilising the titular curse. "The Idiot's Lantern" involves televisions being 'haunted' by an alien who appears as a motherly woman on the screen. She eats by taking away someone's 'soul', and through that, their face. In "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead", there are "data ghosts" in the communicators of River Song's expedition team, which are supposedly echoes of their dying moments. |
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Extreme Ghostbusters had a demon who swore to destroy humankind with its own technology as punishment for its collective hubris (i.e., from the Tower of Babel onwards). It first appears possessing an action figure, then jumps to other machines before sneaking into Roland's PKE-meter and subtly brainwashing him into building a Humongous Mecha called "The Infernal Machine," using literally all of the Ghostbusters' tech, which the demon takes control of. Ultimately ends up Hoist by His Own Petard when Roland remembers he used the ghosttraps in building the Infernal Machine. Another episode had a demon inhabiting a cavern underneath an oil refinery. Any vehicles that had gas from the refinery put in them became possessed, and changed into monsters. |
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Shows up in the Bone Chillers story blowtorch@psycho.com. Protagonist Jason Reed is a budding writer who wrote a story in his computer for a competion, one about a Serial Killer called Blowtorch going on a rampage, but somehow Blowtorch gains a life of his own and attempts rewriting Jason's story according to his own preference. When Jason tries deleting his story, Blowtorch instead escapes the computer and tries stalking Jason. | |
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Johnny and the Dead: Two mechanically skilled "post-senior citizens" manage to attune a broken television set to the ghosts of its long-defunct workings, allowing its glass-bereft screen to receive a broadcast of Cobbers. | |
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Daisuki! BuBu ChaCha: A non-horrifying example. A dog died from protecting a 3-year-old boy and possessed/reincarnated into a toy car. There are other animal ghosts who possessed other objects, too. | |
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In Super Minion, one of the things showing up during the latest Odd Summer are cars bursting into flames and driving around by themselves. They appear to be mostly harmless, and one character even comments that they seem to be safer drivers than normal humans. | |
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Unfriended. A teenage girl who was Driven to Suicide through cyberbullying comes back a year later to get revenge against her classmates, taking control of their computers in the middle of a Skype group call in order to torment and eventually kill them. The entire film is told through the perspective of the Final Girl's computer screen. | |
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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats: Exactly What It Says on the Tin: a bed that eats people. It doesn't chase them or anything, they just keep getting into it. | |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series: In "Beyond the Farthest Star", when an alien entity took over the Enterprise bridge's intruder control system. In "The Practical Joker", a playful energy cloud took over the Enterprise computer and played pranks on the crew. |
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The Demon Download series is replete with this trope. Unsurprising, really, given the title of the first novel and the series overall. The first book has a demon infecting computer systems and operating any technology those computer systems are connected to, resulting in a demon-possessed United States Road Cavalry cruiser and later on, possessed kitchen appliances. In Comeback Tour, the only reason the Josephites are able to get the Needlepoint system working is that they're using voodoo to have the Kill Sat possessed by Elder Seth. | |
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Deadlands: You bet. Mad gadgets are easily infested by "gremlins" that deliberately cause malfunctions. With the rise of technology in Noir, everything is even more haunted. Radios whisper cryptic messages, Telephone conversations tend to drop or change key words, automobiles lock you in and try to asphyxiate you with carbon dioxide... Isn't progress wonderful? |
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The Pokémon: The Series anime has several episodes which deal with Rotom, a Ghost-type which can haunt various appliances. And of course, Ash gets a Rotom Pokédex, or RotomDex, in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon. For more info on Rotom, see the Video Game section. | |
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White Noise (not to be confused with the post-apocalyptic scifi webcomic by Melinda Timpone) | |
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In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Freddy kills Jennifer by possessing a television set and causing her to jam her head through the screen. | |
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In the Rivers of London novel False Value a tech guru believes he's created a magitek AI by connecting a magically-enhanced difference engine called a Mary Engine to his computer network. He recognises that the two Rose Jars that are part of the device are usually used for trapping ghosts, but thinks that isn't what they do in this case. He is wrong. | |
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"The Mangler" (published in the collection Night Shift) is about a haunted industrial laundry machine, nicknamed the mangler. An unlikely set of circumstances caused it to become possessed, and an attempt to exorcise it missed a variable affecting the creature, turning it into a mobile killing machine. | |
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From a Buick 8 is about a car which, while not possessed, is supernatural. Actually the Buick isn't really a car, although they don't find out for sure exactly what it is. | |
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Variable Geo: While it's never explained how Miranda Jahana died, the cyber drive contains her disembodied spirit. Which allowed her to gradually superimpose her consciousness over Satomi's and take over her body. Satomi is eventually freed from her control, thanks to her best friend, Yuka, saving her. After which, they unleash their combined might and destroy the cyber drive, taking Miranda with it. | |
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The webcomic Chainsawsuit plays with this in one of their panels, where the ghost in question is the ghost of an old bunny-eared TV set spouting static. | |
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Calling has a haunted chatroom website that drags people away and numerous cell phones that get calls from dead people. | |
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Ghost Master has ghosts that specialise in making technology spark and jump. | |
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The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "I Robot, You Jane" has a demon which possesses a computer (and then the Internet, and finally a robot body) as the result of a book-scanning project. | |
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Virtual-ON has the Optional Boss Jaguarandi, who appears without warning if you take too long for the first round of fights. It's stated to be the soul of a boy trapped in the system, now animating a warped, extremely powerful version of the standard Raiden Virtuaroid. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi narrowly averts this. Cute Ghost Girl Sayo may have been given a robotic body, but she's controlling it by possessing a voodoo doll (with a cute exterior) and controlling a Mobile-Suit Human. | |
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Creepshow 3: In the second segment, Jerry buys a new radio which turns out to be this. Under its whim, he ends up stealing money and murdering people. | |
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Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures: The episode "Honey, I Digitized the Pac-Man" centers on cellphones, vehicles, and other computerized electronics getting possessed by digitized ghosts imbued with a virus. | |
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Ghostwatch will make you want to have your TV exorcised. Part of the Paranoia Fuel of the special is that broadcasting a special inside a haunted house effectively has the same effect as a seance... which means every TV watching in Britain is now tuned into a homicidal ghost on multiple wavelengths. | |
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Parodied in Filmation's Ghostbusters. Here, the Ghostbusters owned the haunted technology, which took the form of anthropomorphic, skeleton-themed appliances, and let those ghosts live with them. Most famous was the Ansabone, which hung up on callers or had some wisecracks when they succeeded in leaving a message. | |
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Event Horizon has a haunted/demonically possessed spaceship. Apparently, Faster-Than-Light Travel takes you through Hell. | |
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In the New World of Darkness, the animistic nature of The Shadow means that there is conceivably a spirit for everything. Mages well-versed in the Spirit Arcanum can awaken the dormant spirits in just about anything. Mages with Death and Matter can also cause a ghost to possess and animate anything physical (commonly used with a Golem or other construct but also for something like a self-driving car). Even the Werewolves get on it, too. Closer to the literal definition of the trope, any ghost with the right Numina can possess technology. Sin-Eaters with the Industrial Key can frequently replicate this effect, mainly through use of the Marionette or the Boneyard. |
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Parodied in Kingdom of Loathing with a cursed microwave that produces endless brimstone burritos, and a cursed keg that dispenses cups of "beery blood." | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Mineru was an expert in Zonai Magitek and her Secret Stone's ability was to seperate her spirit from her body, so she laid out plans to possess a Construct when she's about to expire. After the disastrous attempt to kill Ganondorf which only left him sealed away until the present day and left Mineru with fatal injuries, she agrees to Zelda's plan and possesses her Purah Pad for the time being. After Link tries to seek her out, she directs him to build the Construct body she never finished and joins him as the Sage of Spirit. Link can ride the Construct and Fuse different weapons to her arms and back. | |
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This actually happens with a lot of Creepypasta, following the success of Ben Drowned. A straight example being Unbranded Laptop. Zig-zagged with the Sim Albert Creepypasta: The game is indeed haunted, but the ghost was actually using it as a second chance at life. There's one about a haunted Nintendo 64 that makes any game played through it temporarily spooky. It belonged to a boy who died in some sort of accident, and was (supposedly) buried with him. Wether his ghost put it in the pawn shop the protagonist found it at, or it was tomb-robbered is never mentioned. |
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The haunted Majora's Mask cartridge of Ben Drowned. And, thanks to people downloading Thetruth.rtf, the Internet as well. | |
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Week 6 of Friday Night Funkin' takes place inside an Affectionate Parody of dating sims... at least, until you defeat Senpai twice. For his third song, the malevolent Spirit of one of Daddy Dearest's victims explodes out of his head and tries to claim Boyfriend's body to take revenge. | |
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In City of Heroes, the Praetorian variant of the villainous Clockwork King (who is a Brain in a Jar) is known as Metronome, and is a ghost able to rewrite and possess the advanced - and ever-present - robots that he helped to create. | |
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Then there's the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Schizoid Man", in which a dying scientist takes over Data (a possession plot, but Data is a machine). | |
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