The utensil-shaped object also appears to be floating above ... Mystery solved after fireball lit up the night sky All of these uncanny cosmic objects make us think of familiar things due to ...

What Is the Uncanny Valley? The uncanny valley hypothesis states that artificial characters and objects that are almost but not fully human-like will trigger a deep sense of unease. To depict this ...

(We like humanoid objects up to a point, but when they cross a threshold of realism without actually being real, we find them repulsive.) But the notion of the uncanny dates back farther than that ...

The haunted Annabelle doll is making a chilling appearance at the Psychic Spirit Fest in San Antonio this May, alongside ...

Historically, male Surrealists have portrayed women in rather uncanny ways, presenting them as fetishised or infantilised objects rather than as fully dimensional humans. The Surrealist pieces in ...

Robotics professor Masahiro Mori named this phenomenon the “uncanny valley” in 1970: Models that look like human faces but are a bit off bring fear and disgust to many observers. This effect ...

No other art term has become such an easy cliché: it has shifted from its original sense of the uncanny and the unheimlich ... Or perhaps they were always there? Objects of Desire: Surrealism ...