Ventriloquist Dummies Coming Alive!

First a little background. About 30-40 years ago, it was all the rage on TV and the movies. Ventriloquist's dummies coming alive!

Anyway, that is not very likely for a couple of reasons. But there also was this other horror story motif, that was a little more likely. After a while, a ventriloquist gets so into what he is doing, he starts believing his dummy is real and alive.

Now I know what some ventriloquists do is a little creepy. Edgar Bergen for example reportedly had a bed and whole room for his dummy. But I think the story went a lot of them ended up that way--even most.

How plausible is this? Please feel free to cite actual stories, if you have any. I know it is fiction. But truth is sometimes based on fiction. And truth is usually stranger than fiction, in any event.

 

before cgi, stop motion animation was pretty cool, and something you could do with them.

sorry that's about the only thing i could think of about that.
i know i've read some good stories about puppets and plushies and all,
but i'm really no writer myself.

i may have had a nightmare with a teddy bear shaped ghost in it,
back when i had them, which was when i was really little.

but the last time i had any kind of thing like that, there was the kind of skull shaped thing that kind of waked by moving with it had in place of a lower jaw,
that i turned into a beautiful young lady, well released her, by with a q-tip and rubbing alky, disinfecting these four short parallel vertical lines on what became her upper lip,
i just had to keep at it like the forever that it seemed to take.

but not really any kind of a ventriloquist kind of thing.