Admittedly, a previous roommate — who is also Becker's best friend — "was super freaked out" by Jerry's presence at first, even asking Becker not to leave the dummy in the living room. She soon grew ...

Depending on who you ask, Vent Haven Museum is either Northern Kentucky’s best- or worst-kept secret. As the world’s only museum dedicated to ventriloquism, the 4,000-square-foot space draws a ...

Hundreds of eyes stare at me. Unblinking lifeless eyes. A bit unsettling. But, of course, what gave life to these unmoving creatures were the talented ventriloquists behind them. “This is the only ...

With their empty stares, denture-like teeth, exaggerated human features, and odd proportions, ventriloquist dummies are the very embodiment of the uncanny valley phenomenon. These lap-based ...

ERLANGER, Ky. — For years, ventriloquism has held a reputation as being dorky at best, sinister at worst. Even now it summons up horror movies about a homicidal dummy, or a homicidal ventriloquist, or ...

I still remember the first time I ever saw a ventriloquist in action. The legendary Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekicks, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, appeared on an episode of The Muppet Show ...

Director Rob Margolies’s The Dummy Detective, written by Jonathan Geffner, is a whodunit mystery noir filled with twists and ...

The scene: a stage in an American Legion post in southeastern Minnesota. The players: longtime comic duo David Malmberg and Simon Spencer. "What is it that you get when you mix holy water with prune ...

When I think of ventriloquism in film, my thoughts flash to the commercials for 1978’s Magic that creeped me out as a kid. I wasn’t alone; according to the IMDb trivia page, the original trailer for ...

In our Inside Look stories, Herald-Leader journalists take you inside places around Lexington and Kentucky that you maybe haven't seen before. Read more. Story idea? [email protected]. In ...

Sophie Becker has an unlikely job for a 31 year old these days The New York City artist works as a ventriloquist, performing multiple times per month Becker tells PEOPLE she picked up the hobby during ...