Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lizzie has been tucked in a wooden trunk bearing her name and stowed inside Linda Mae Glader’s closet for more than 40 years. But the dummy — a handcrafted ...

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 ...

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 ...