# Works with ghosts "possessing" artificial bodies?

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**Created:** [August 22, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-with-ghosts-possessing-artificial-bodies/763645 "2016-08-22T17:18:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-with-ghosts-possessing-artificial-bodies/763645/21 "2016-08-23T19:49:26Z")

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The ectoplasmic Johann Krauss in [_Hellboy II_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellboy_II:_The_Golden_Army).

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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-with-ghosts-possessing-artificial-bodies/763645/22 "2016-08-23T22:06:14Z")

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> [@Lamia](#):
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> I feel like the possessed suit of armor is a fairly common trope, and yet I’m having a hard time thinking of any actual examples. _Bedknobs and Broomsticks_ does feature an army of armor, but they’re animated by magic and not ghosts.
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> ETA: Jinx!

Hm, okay, there’s a Three Stooges short featuring Shemp Howard that involves the ghost of a guy who snuck a peek at Lady Godiva, and being called Peeping Tom. Anyway, Tom was beheaded and somehow wound up in a suit of armor that the Stooges were supposed to move. The suit chases them around with a sword. It turns out that it’s just a story that the Stooges are making up to tell their kids (who are also played by the Stooges).

The title escapes me at the moment. _Shivering Spooks_, perhaps? I dunno. I used to know the titles and everything, dammit. ☹

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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-with-ghosts-possessing-artificial-bodies/763645/23 "2016-08-23T22:33:12Z")

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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#):
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> The title escapes me at the moment. _Shivering Spooks_, perhaps? I dunno. I used to know the titles and everything, dammit. ☹

Well, the Stooge short is called _The Ghost Talks_. _Shivering Spooks_ is a Little Rascals short for crying out loud! I can’t trust my brain for **anything** these days! :(:(:(☹

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-with-ghosts-possessing-artificial-bodies/763645/24 "2016-08-23T23:08:51Z")

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The ghost of the character Church possesses the armored suit he’d worn while he was alive.  
in **Red Vs. Blue**. Well, sort of, anyway.

A suit, or perhaps more accurately the box it came in, is possessed by an unkind ghost in Joe Hill’s **Heart Shaped Box**.

And isn’t there an episode of **Supernatural** with possessed mannequins? There’s definitely an episode early on about the ghost of a girl possessing a painting.

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