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A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and “the stuff of nightmares.” Before Halloween, the National Park Service posted ...

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Forgotten to history, Thomas Edison once sought to build a "spirit phone" to allow the living to communicate with the dead.

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He and Thomas Edison had a long history which began when ... he would invent the first motion picture camera, improve his phonograph, and become America’s first entertainment mogul.