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 ...

At the end of the new Netflix documentary Being Eddie, Eddie Murphy receives a package he’s visibly excited to open. “Oh, I know what this is. Those are ventriloquist dummies,” he says, before ...

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 ...

Vent Haven Museum is all about dummies – puppets, not people with questionable judgment. This museum houses 1,012 ventriloquial figures, more commonly referred to as dummies, from the 19th through ...

YORK, Maine — Austin Phillips said he was known as “the puppet kid” growing up in York. In his yearbook photos, he typically was holding a ventriloquist dummy. Now, Phillips, 29, is a growing talent ...

The path to puppetry starts with a jar of spaghetti sauce. After youngsters strengthen their arm muscles by holding a jar over their heads for about 10 minutes, they walk around their homes with ...

In early June, a ventriloquist dummy of "Call Me By Your Name" actor Timothée Chalamet was listed on eBay for an astounding $122,795. The puppet went viral for its likeness to Chalamet and ... well, ...

Nelson Gichen aka Baba Johnte as he is popularly known within his locality in Westlands, Nairobi is a ventriloquist. According to Merriam Webster dictionary, a ventroloquist is someone who undertakes ...