History Main / HauntedTechnology

* ''Film/WhiteNoise'' (not to be confused with the [[Webcomic/WhiteNoise post-apocalyptic scifi webcomic by Melinda Timpone)]]

* ''Anime/TheBigO'': While being heavily implied (and accepted by many fans) as being semi-sentient machines, the extent of a Megadei's independence (those in the Big series, at least) at first appears to be just walking on their own volition and picking up their pilots... and then you get episode 24, which secures their Haunted Technology status forever. After Alan Gabriel tells Roger that he intends to use Big Duo Inferno solely for mass murder and destruction, he is about ram a drill into Big O when the arm with the drill... just... won't... move. The message displayed on the monitor in the cockpit of every Megadei changes at this moment for Alan: "YE GUILTY". Then Big Duo moves backwards, and Schwarzwald -- literally out of nowhere (he's supposed to be dead by now) -- gives Gabriel a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, to which cables burst out of every inch of the Big Duo's cockpit. Duo proceeds to "eat" Alan Gabriel. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dk1qXYMZ4&feature=related See for yourself.]]

* The camera in "Say Cheese and Die" from the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' series. And there also was another book that featured a haunted car.

* ''Anime/TheBigO'':
** While being heavily implied (and accepted by many fans) as being semi-sentient machines, the extent of a Megadei's independence (those in the Big series, at least) at first appears to be just walking on their own volition and picking up their pilots... and then you get episode 24, which secures their Haunted Technology status forever. Alan Gabriel in Big Duo Inferno is about ram a drill into Big O, when the arm with the drill... just... won't... move. Then Big Duo moves backwards, and Schwarzwald-literally out of nowhere(he's supposed to be dead by now)-gives Gabriel a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, to which cables burst out of every inch of the Big Duo's cockpit. Duo proceeds to "eat" Alan Gabriel. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dk1qXYMZ4&feature=related See for yourself.]]
** The message displayed on the monitor in the cockpit of every Megadei changes at this moment for Alan: "YE GUILTY" This event happened after he told Roger about how he intends to use Big Duo solely for mass murder and destruction.
* ''Anime/DaisukiBuBuChaCha'' - A non-horrifying example. A dog died from protecting a 3-year-old boy and possessed/reincarnated into a toy car. There are other animal ghosts who possessed other objects, too.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E12HerPilgrimSoulIOfNewton Her Pilgrim Soul]]", Nola Granville's (benevolent) spirit briefly possesses a hologram-projection system.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' parodied 1960s fantasy sitcoms, and more specifically ''Series/MyMotherTheCar'' in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E24TheSimpsonsSpinOffShowcase The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase]]" with "The Love-Matic Grandpa" a fake spin-off in which Abe Simpson dies whilst shopping for cans of figs and then ends up haunting the Love-Testing machine in Moe's Tavern and starts giving Moe romantic advice.

Not to be confused with VirtualGhost, where [[BrainUploading futuristic technology]] allows a ghost to inhabit a computer. Not related to GhostInTheMachine. Compare with DigitizedHacker, where the ghost is virtual, not supernatural; ManInTheMachine, a still-living person conjoined with a machine or a piece of technology; and ParanormalMundaneItem, where a seemingly everyday item has supernatural powers, but is not haunted or possessed. See also: AttackOfTheKillerWhatever.

** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E17TheFever The Fever]]" has a seemingly possessed slot machine that follows the protagonist around, calling his name.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E40AThingAboutMachines A Thing About Machines]]" has a whole bunch of machines start rising up in revenge against one man who's been abusing them.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E126LivingDoll Living Doll]]": "My name is Talking Tina, and ''I don't like you''."
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E134YouDrive You Drive]]" has a car that starts acting weird in an attempt to get its owner to confess to a hit-and-run accident.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E140FromAgnesWithLove From Agnes - With Love]]" has a supercomputer named Agnes which becomes a ClingyJealousGirl.

* A few years back, an UsefulNotes/{{NES}} for sale on Website/EBay was advertised as being haunted. The seller claimed to hear whispering sounds while playing it. The sounds were actually sound chip malfunctions due to the console's age.

Not to be confused with VirtualGhost, where [[BrainUploading futuristic technology]] allows a ghost to inhabit a computer. Not related to GhostInTheMachine. Compare with DigitizedHacker, where the ghost is virtual, not supernatural; ManInTheMachine, a still-living person conjoined with a machine or a piece of technology; and ParanormalMundaneObject, where a seemingly everyday item has supernatural powers, but is not haunted or possessed. See also: AttackOfTheKillerWhatever.

* ''VideoGame/{{Shivers}}'' had the electricity Ixupi, which possessed things like a UFO-shaped lamp and an electric chair.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' had an arc involving a haunted battleship which the heroes get at a cheap price. The "haunting" consists of a gurgling in the pipes that sounds like a [[BlackSpeech Voice of Pure Evil]] telling them that they're doomed to die horribly. The "haunting" drives the ship's AI completely and suicidally insane, since it is unable to find a scientific explanation, and as a machine, it can't accept the existence of the supernatural. [[TheSmartGuy Kevyn]] eventually concludes that the 'haunting' is simply a freak plumbing problem, and the plumbing just happens to sound like an ominous voice proclaiming their doom in their own language, so he flushes out the entire system until it stops. Captain Tagon then orders the AI to repress its memories of the incident, rendering it sane again, though it becomes suicidal if those orders are ever revoked.

* Aradia Megido becomes one of these in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' after her ghost possesses a robot body; unfortunately, this [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody turns her]] from an EmotionlessGirl into an EmotionlessGirl with bouts of UnstoppableRage without truly bringing her back as the person she was before her death.
* The webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}'' plays with this in one of their panels, where the ghost in question is the ghost of an old bunny-eared TV set spouting static.

* "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20070428032753/http://www.theonion.com:80/content/node/34929 Haunted Tape Dispenser Unsure How To Demonstrate Hauntedness]]," as parodied by Website/TheOnion.

* The haunted ''Majora's Mask'' cartridge of ''WebVideo/BenDrowned''. [[spoiler:And, thanks to people downloading Thetruth.rtf, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the Internet as well]].]]
* The spooky toaster from ''WebAnimation/NeuroticallyYours''. Foamy bought it from Amityville, and it spits out something different than what you put in; for example, put in white bread, you get wheat toast, wheat bread becomes pumpernickel toast, pumpernickel bread becomes blueberry muffins, and bagels become pork chops. But [[SchmuckBait don't use waffles]]; the seller warned of something about toasted human hands.
* This actually happens with a lot of {{Creepypasta}}, following the success of ''WebVideo/BenDrowned''.
** A straight example being [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Unbranded_Laptop Unbranded Laptop]].
** Zig-zagged with the ''Sim Albert'' Creepypasta: [[spoiler:The game is indeed haunted, but the ghost was actually using it as a second chance at life.]]
** There's one about a haunted Nintendo 64 that makes any game played through it temporarily spooky. It belonged to a boy who died in some sort of accident, and was (supposedly) buried with him. Wether his ghost put it in the pawn shop the protagonist found it at, or it was [[GraveRobbing tomb-robbered]] is never mentioned.
* The roads around Ravensblight are haunted by two mysterious trucks, ironically the one that looks like the one in ''Film/{{Duel}}'' is haunted by a helpful ghost; as well as a black [[Literature/{{Christine}} '58 Plymouth Fury]] whose interior is obscured by the glow from within, and a '37 Chevy whose past is chequered by so many incidents, no-one knows who might be haunting it. It's been left in a field as no-one wants anything to do with it, used by drunk hunters (who are sometimes killed in mysterious hit-and-run incidents) as a shootin' car, and some say, when the moon is right, the first owners' favourite song - Artie Shaws' ''The Back Bay Shuffle'' - can be heard coming from the car. And don't ask about the abandoned fairground carousel.
* ''WebVideo/{{Petscop}}'': Some believe Tool is this when it turns pink.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'':
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E1BeyondTheFarthestStar Beyond the Farthest Star]]", when an alien entity took over the Enterprise bridge's intruder control system.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS2E3ThePracticalJoker The Practical Joker]]", a playful energy cloud took over the Enterprise computer and played pranks on the crew.

* Taken to its logical extent in ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' in which the possessed machines were Transformers and the possessing spirit was... also a Transformer, specifically the immortal spark of [[TheStarscream Air Commander Starscream.]]
** In the sequel of ''Beast Wars'', ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', the depolarized Spark of Megatron goes through a rapid session of body-swapping, trying to destroy the Maximals with every new functional machine he comes across.
** According to [[WordOfGod the Allspark Almanac]], the producers might have reused this trope with a body-hopping [[spoiler:Prowl]] had ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' gotten a fourth season.
* Nicolai Technus in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is all about this, being the "Ghost Master of Science and Electrical Technology (and All Things Electronic and Beeping)".
* ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' had a demon who swore to destroy humankind with its own technology as punishment for its collective hubris (i.e., from the Tower of Babel onwards). It first appears possessing an action figure, then jumps to other machines before sneaking into Roland's PKE-meter and subtly brainwashing him into building a HumongousMecha called "The Infernal Machine," using literally all of the Ghostbusters' tech, which the demon takes control of. Ultimately ends up HoistByHisOwnPetard when Roland remembers he used the ghosttraps in building the Infernal Machine.
** Another episode had a demon inhabiting a cavern underneath an oil refinery. Any vehicles that had gas from the refinery put in them became possessed, and changed into monsters.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' had the episode "Killerwatt", which took over anything that ran on electricity. Also, the episode "Lost and Foundry" featured a ghost that escaped our heroes by falling into a vat of molten metal, possessing any metallic objects made from that metal. They battled a terrifying HumongousMecha in a New Jersey junkyard, and won.

* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': When they cloned their television one too many times, it became evil.
** In one episode, Shake killed himself so he could prank Meatwad through a OuijaBoard video game. Unfortunately for him, Meatwad is already sick of the game and doesn't bother to play it again.
* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'': The episode "Honey, I Digitized the Pac-Man" centers on cellphones, vehicles, and other computerized electronics getting possessed by digitized ghosts imbued with a virus.

"Snapshot", from ''Literature/StrangeWeather'', revolves around a teenager who encounters a man with a camera that scrubs memories from the minds of people he takes picutures of. When the camera is finally destroyed, it's revealed to contain a black liquid with an eye in the middle instead of machinery.

* In Creator/JamesHerbert's ''Literature/TheSpear'', a Chieftain tank near-fatally pursues the protagonists; crashes down a quarry - and appears to have contained no occupant. it was driven by [[spoiler: Heinrich Himmler]]'s ghost.
* In ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogAndTheSiliconWarriors'' inside the raw-data section of the computer there exists a deleted program that has coalesced stray bits of code to become more tangible. It calls itself the GhostInTheMachine.
* In the novel ''Possessed'' by Alan Radnor, a modern (for the early eighties, anyway) computer system is built on a spot haunted by the spirits of pagan worshipers, and they take machinery over along with anyone associated with it.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office has to deal with some of these. Mainly subverted though, since they're bewitched rather than "haunted", properly speaking. The difference is that bewitched means that the wizard/witch left a part of his magic into it, like an answering machine so to speak. This includes Arthur Weasley's Ford Anglia.
* The titular device in Creator/JohnBellairs' ''Literature/TheHouseWithAClockInItsWalls''.
* The camera in "Say Cheese and Die" from the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' series. And there also was another book that featured a haunted car.
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' novel ''[[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresLovingTheAlien Loving the Alien]]'', a primitive time machine retains from the Time Vortex a layer of telepathic Vasser Dust, which both psychically reiterates a man's past encounter with the machine's [[TheAssimilator Cybermen]] owners, and imparts a glimpse of the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace vortex's infinite potential]].
* Creator/AnthonyHorowitz's short story ''The Phone Goes Dead'' has a woman struck by lightning and killed while using her mobile phone. The phone's next owner, a teenage boy, soon starts receiving calls on it from beyond the grave.
* In the ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' novel ''False Value'' [[spoiler: a tech guru believes he's created a {{magitek}} AI by connecting a magically-enhanced difference engine called a Mary Engine to his computer network. He recognises that the two Rose Jars that are part of the device are usually used for trapping ghosts, but thinks that isn't what they do in this case. He is wrong.]]
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Ghosts II'': The title character in ''Call Me Ghost'' can possess a computer to type his thoughts in a word processing program.
* ''Literature/TheHauntingOfTramCar015'' has the titular tram car initially thought to be possessed by an unhappy ghost. After failing to exorcise it, Agents Hamed and Onsi discover [[spoiler: that the tram's {{Magitek}} circuits are being controlled by a non-ghost supernatural creature.]]
* ''[[Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Johnny and the Dead]]'': Two mechanically skilled "post-senior citizens" manage to attune a broken television set to the ghosts of its long-defunct workings, allowing its glass-bereft screen to receive a broadcast of ''[[Series/{{Neighbours}} Cob]][[Series/HomeAndAway bers]]''.
* Creator/ManlyWadeWellman's short story ''The Theater Upstairs'' (first published in 1936) is an early instance of this, with a [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday movie theater that wasn't there yesterday]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking exists despite local ordinances forbidding movie theaters from being built above ground level]] showing a talkie adaptation of Creator/GuyDeMaupassant's horror story ''The Horla'', starring Creator/RudolphValentino - even though the protagonist is pretty sure Valentino died before any sound films were made. The protagonist also tells us that, afterwards, he has never been able to find anyone else who has seen this movie, or any other evidence that it exists.

* ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' could easily have been called "Haunted Technology: The Series."

** In "Her Pilgrim Soul", Nola Granville's (benevolent) spirit briefly possesses a hologram-projection system.
** In "Still Life", Daniel Arnold discovers a Kodak 100 camera in an antique trunk that he bought at an auction. After he develops the photos, he finds that they are of a ''Magazine/NationalGeographic'' expedition to the Amazon River basin in January 1913. Daniel's friend Professor Alex Stottel, the last surviving member of the expedition, tells him that they barely escaped with their lives as the Curacai tribe believed that creating an image of them stole their souls. It turns out that the Curacai were correct and that Daniel developing the photos released them. The Curacai attack Daniel and his wife Becky but he manages to trap their souls again by taking photos of them.
** In "Joy Ride", Alonzo, his younger brother Greg and their girlfriends Deena and Adrienne steal the classic car owned by the recently deceased Charlie Taylor and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin go for a joy ride]]. They are stopped by a cop who is investigating the robbery of Chadway's Five & Dime earlier that evening. Alonzo denies any involvement but shoots the cop out of the blue with a gun that he found under the seat. A car chase ensues and it becomes clear that Alonzo is not in control of his behavior. It turns out that the four teenagers were trapped inside the car the entire time and none of what they experienced was real. The car was possessed by the spirit of Taylor, who killed the cop in 1957 and was confessing to his crime from beyond the grave.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS01E13RouteSixSixSix Route 666]]" features a truck possessed by the spirit of its dead, racist owner.
** The MonsterOfTheWeek in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS03E14LongDistanceCall Long-Distance Call]]" calls people on the phone and drives them to suicide.
** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS10E13HaltAndCatchFire Halt & Catch Fire]]" has a vengeful spirit of a man who died on powerlines feeding into a Wi-Fi signal, meaning he can attack his victims anywhere a signal reaches through anything connected to it. This unique situation allows him to bypass the usual wards.
* The ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' episode ''[[Recap/AreYouAfraidOfTheDarkSeason3TheTaleOfTheCuriousCamera The Tale of the Curious Camera]]'' has a gremlin possessing a camera. The camera not only kills people by taking their pictures, but the pictures show how they die. By the end of the episode, the camera is destroyed, [[spoiler:but the gremlin ends up in a computer]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]'', a 1943 code-breaking device, revolutionary technology of the day, begins translation of a viking inscription, and is commandeered by the [[EldritchAbomination incorporeal entity]] innate to the inscription to complete their incantation, mobilising the titular curse.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern The Idiot's Lantern]]" involves televisions being 'haunted' by an alien who appears as a motherly woman on the screen. She [[spoiler:eats by taking away someone's 'soul', and through that, their face]].
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary Silence in the Library]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]", there are "data ghosts" in the communicators of River Song's expedition team, which are supposedly echoes of their dying moments.
* ''Series/MyMotherTheCar'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' with "The Lovematic Grandpa", a love tester machine haunted by Abraham Simpson.
** Also parodied on ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' with a Soviet sitcom, "Tibor's Tractor", where a farmer's tractor is haunted by Nikita Khrushchev.
* And don't forget the TV movie ''Film/{{Killdozer}}''.
* Or ''Film/{{Roadtrain}}'' for that matter.
* In the TurnOfTheMillennium revival of ''Series/RandallAndHopkirkDeceased'', one of SpiritAdvisor Marty Hopkirk's first appearances to Jeff Randall was in a FirstPersonShooter video game.
* The ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E8CigaretteBurns Cigarette Burns]]" features a haunted movie.
* ''Film/{{Ghostwatch}}'' will make you want to have your TV exorcised. Part of the ParanoiaFuel of the special is that [[spoiler:broadcasting a special inside a haunted house effectively has the same effect as a seance... which means ''every TV watching in Britain'' is now tuned into a homicidal ghost on multiple wavelengths]].

* ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'': The episode "Ghost" has the girls dealing with a [=VHS=] which turns out to be possessed by the spirit of an elderly lady.
* ''Series/WellingtonParanormal'': A 1985 Nissan 300ZX [[DescriptionPorn Z31 3-litre V6 Turbo]].

* In the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', the animistic nature of The Shadow means that there is conceivably a spirit for ''everything''. [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Mages]] well-versed in the Spirit Arcanum can awaken the dormant spirits in just about anything. Mages with Death and Matter can also cause a ghost to possess and animate anything physical (commonly used with a {{Golem}} or other construct but also for something like a self-driving car).
** Even the ''TabletopGame/{{Werewol|fTheForsaken}}ves'' get on it, too.
** Closer to the literal definition of the trope, any ghost with the right Numina can possess technology. [[TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters Sin-Eaters]] with the Industrial Key can frequently replicate this effect, mainly through use of the Marionette or the Boneyard.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' tends to do this with auras that enchant artifacts.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'': You bet. Mad gadgets are easily infested by "gremlins" that deliberately cause malfunctions.
** With the rise of technology in ''Noir'', everything is even ''more'' haunted. Radios whisper cryptic messages, Telephone conversations tend to drop or change key words, automobiles lock you in and try to asphyxiate you with carbon dioxide... Isn't progress wonderful?
* Ghosts in ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'' have an array of possible special abilities that allow them to possess technology, produce glitches, or appear in transmissions.
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' - in the ''Horror on the Orient Express'' campaign [[spoiler:cultists turn the locomotive of the titular Orient Express into the avatar of an EldritchAbomination]].
* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech''
** [[https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Great_Gaffa%27s_Ghost Great Gaffa's Ghost]], the supposed spirit of famed SLDF General Stephen James Gaffa, who was supposedly killed in action in an ambush of massed missile and artillery fire. However, no evidence of his demise was ever found and for centuries afterward, legends tell of an old ''Highlander'' Battlemech that swoops in out of the blue to save beleaguered soldiers operating under the Star League banner. Interestingly, this is not just a ghost story because ''something'' is clearly responsible for fighting and destroying enemy 'Mechs found around the saved soldiers, and General Gaffa himself is never heard from, only his ancient ''Highlander,'' implying that the 'Mech itself is haunted by the old general's spirit, or somehow a spirit itself seeing as how it has been reported on half a dozen planets thousands of light years apart.
** The original prototype ''O-Bakemono'' artillery 'Mech was delivered to Camacho's Caballeros for testing, presumably thanks to their patron Chandresakr Kurita pulling some very large strings. In their inimitable fashion, the Caballeros christined it "El Cuco," the Bogeyman, thanks to its numerous glitches and gremlins. However, ever since the murder of its beloved pilot Diana Vasquez, pilots who take El Cuco into combat report hearing a faint voice whispering to them on the radio and phantom images showing up on the viewscreens that no amount of technical wizardry can identify or fix. Superstitious almost to a fault, the Caballeros believe that El Cuco is haunted by the spirit of the fallen Diana, who has refused to leave the regiment she called home. The Caballeros honor Diana by taking the 'Mech out with them on every sortie as a good-luck charm, but also fear the duty of piloting it, such that pilots insist on rotating assignments so no single pilot is in the cockpit long enough to encounter Diana's wayward ghost.
** [[https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Black_Marauder The Black Marauder]]. Not ''a'' black ''Marauder'', ''the'' Black Marauder. Whatever it is, it is ''horribly'' wrong and is somehow able to invoke the UncannyValley even though its design has no remotely human component to do so. One report suggests that, despite its body being little more than a fuselage with {{Arm Cannon}}s, the Black Marauder somehow has the ability to turn its 'neck' like a Tyrannosaurus... ''and open a mouth full of sharp teeth''. Its mere presence causes people to go mad, and deaths by impossible accidents happen constantly around it. Any pilot who dares try to control it invariably develops violent psychosis and eventually kills themselves, presuming the Black Marauder doesn't do so first. It's almost like a [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Chaos Demon]] manifested in a Battlemech.

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Not to be confused with VirtualGhost, where [[BrainUploading futuristic technology]] allows a ghost to inhabit a computer. Not related to GhostInTheMachine. Compare with DigitizedHacker, where the ghost is virtual, not supernatural, and ManInTheMachine, a still-living person conjoined with a machine or a piece of technology. See also: AttackOfTheKillerWhatever.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' narrowly averts this. CuteGhostGirl Sayo may have been given a robotic body, but she's controlling it by possessing a voodoo doll (with a cute exterior) and controlling a MobileSuitHuman.
* ''Manga/ThoseWhoHuntElves'' has a haunted/possessed tank. Luckily, it's an animal's ghost and is real friendly with the main cast. And is capable of animating the tank and powering all its systems so they no longer have to worry about hunting for oil.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'': to escape being disintegrated, the {{bodysurf}}ing [[EldritchAbomination Ultimate Destruction Program part of the Lord of Terror]] tried to escape to the first available body, that just happened to be a floppy disk thrown at him by Skuld. Skuld then proceeded to break the recording switch, thus [[SealedEvilInACan sealing the Lord of Terror into it]], before [[MundaneMadeAwesome gleefully picking up a magnet and kill the Lord of Terror by demagnetizing the disk]].
* The ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' anime has several episodes which deal with Rotom, a Ghost-type which can haunt various appliances. And of course, Ash gets a Rotom Pokédex, or [=RotomDex=], in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon''. For more info on Rotom, see the Video Game section.

* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': While it's never explained ''how'' [[spoiler:[[BigBad Miranda Jahana]]]] died, the cyber drive [[SoulJar contains]] [[TheDisembodied her disembodied spirit.]] Which allowed her to gradually superimpose her consciousness over [[{{deuteragonist}} Satomi's]] and [[GrandTheftMe take over her body.]] Satomi is eventually freed from her control, thanks to her best friend, Yuka, saving her. After which, [[CombinedEnergyAttack they unleash their combined might]] and destroy the cyber drive, taking [[spoiler:Miranda]] with it.

* ComicBook/GreenLantern opponent Sinestro once possessed Doiby Dickles' 1940s taxi, Goitrude, in a story titled "Our Mastermind the Car".

* In ''ComicBook/JasonXSpecial'', the spirit of Jason Voorhees' mother is released from its grave due to a combination of [[LightningCanDoAnything a lightning strike hitting her son]] as he stands next to it and an army of {{nano|machines}}bots attacking him. She then possesses the machines which are being used to study Jason's regenerative abilities and helps him to escape.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

** Parodied on a humor site with a fake poster for a movie called ''Technologically Savvy Vengeful Ghost''
* The infamous B-movie ''Film/TheCar'' has a car with no rider on it terrorizing a small town. the 'sequel' ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'' has a possessed car wreaking havoc in a cyberpunk city TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
** Or its higher-class cousin, ''Film/{{Christine}}''
** Or its rugged Australian Outback cousin, ''Film/RoadTrain'', a truck that's fueled by blood, corrupts its drivers into being murderous psychos, and is implied to be possessed by the spirit of the three headed demon dog Cerebus.
* {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''Film/ForgettingSarahMarshall''. Over an awkward dinner, Peter and Aldous mock Sarah for taking a role in a movie where cellphones killed their owners. This is a parody of ''Pulse'' (mentioned below), which [[Creator/KristenBell the actress playing Sarah]] [[SelfDeprecation starred in the American remake of]].
* ''Film/FearDotCom'' featured a haunted snuff website.
* This is more or less the whole point of the movie ''Film/{{Kairo}}'' and its American adaptation.

* In the film ''Film/{{Pi}}'', the protagonist uses his supercomputer to decode a strange number which can predict the stock market, and is apparently somehow related to God and the structure of the universe. In addition to causing serious [[MindScrew mind screwy]] fever dreams for the protagonist when he thinks about it too hard, processing the number seems to make his computer leak some sort of goo (presumably the idea is it is creating primordial life). So basically, his computer is possessed by God.
* ''Film/TheTwonky'' was a 1953 movie about an evil mind-controlling television.
* Kiryu (the version of Mechagodzilla from ''Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla'') is possessed by the ghost of the original Franchise/{{Godzilla}} from the [[Film/{{Gojira}} 1954 film]], [[AIIsACrapshoot causing it to occasionally rampage]]. (Well, what would you expect when you use his skeleton as the frame?)
* ''Film/EventHorizon'' has a haunted/demonically possessed spaceship. Apparently, FasterThanLightTravel [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace takes you through Hell]].
* ''Film/{{Unfriended}}''. A teenage girl who was DrivenToSuicide through cyberbullying comes back a year later to get revenge against her classmates, taking control of their computers in the middle of a Skype group call in order to torment and eventually kill them. The entire film is told through the perspective of the FinalGirl's computer screen.
* Franchise/UltraSeries:
** ''Film/UltramanRBTheMovieSelectTheCrystalOfBond'': The villain of the picture, Ultraman Tregear, uses television and computer screens to travel between dimensions in a rather blatant reference to ''Literature/TheRing''. At the climax of the film, he actually shows up to battle the Ultramen team of Rosso, Blu and Geed by phasing himself through a giant screen on the side of a city building.
** In the next film of the series, ''Film/UltramanTaigaTheMovieNewGenerationClimax'', the ancient monster, Grimdo [[spoiler: who turns out to be the true source of Tregear's powers, the whole time]] uses this method to entice human victims as well, namely through a ShockSite. Unfortunate humans who clicked in would be hopelessly corrupted by Grimdo's powers, although for Pirika the RobotGirl she ends up going through an InvoluntaryDance instead.
* In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'', Freddy kills Jennifer by possessing a television set and causing her to jam her head through the screen.
* ''Film/{{Rubber}}'': An abandoned car tire named Robert who comes to life for no reason and roams the desert. After spending some time rolling about and crushing insects, Robert discovers he has powerful telekinetic abilities that he uses to annihilate crows, rabbits, and eventually human beings.
* ''Film/DeathBedTheBedThatEats'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a bed that eats people. It doesn't ''chase'' them or anything, they just keep getting into it.
* ''Film/{{Polaroid}}'' centers around a haunted Polaroid camera. There are a couple ways they make the haunting unique to this specific type of camera: once the photo is taken the ghost has to slowly "develop" before it can kill the subject, and the photos almost function like voodoo dolls in that any damage to the image also happens to whoever is depicted.
* In ''Film/DeathSpa'', Catherine's ghost possesses the computer that controls every function of the Starbody Health Spa.
* ''Film/TortureGarden'': In "Mr. Steinway", a possessed Bechstein grand piano by [[ICallItVera the name of Euterpe]] becomes jealous of its owner's new lover and takes revenge.
* ''Film/GhostsOfWar'': The soldiers are actually in a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII computer simulation to help them recover from almost being killed in an explosion. [[spoiler:The vengeful spirits of the Helwig family are in it as well, attacking them for [[BystanderSyndrome letting them get tortured to death by ISIS soldiers in the real world]].]]

* ''Literature/TheRing'', with the haunted video tape.
* In ''Literature/SuperMinion'', one of the things showing up during the latest Odd Summer are cars bursting into flames and driving around by themselves. They appear to be mostly harmless, and one character even comments that they seem to be safer drivers than normal humans.

* King's son Creator/JoeHill has his own story about a monstrous camera. ''Snapshot'', from ''Literature/StrangeWeather'', revolves around a teenager who encounters a man with a camera that scrubs memories from the minds of people he takes picutures of. When the camera is finally destroyed, it's revealed to contain a black liquid with an eye in the middle instead of machinery.

* ''The Cleaning Machine'', a short story by F. Paul Wilson, features a supernatural machine [[spoiler:which makes everyone who goes near it disappear without a trace]]. May not be haunted, however, the story never actually explains where it came from, how it got there, or what it is.
* The ''[[Literature/DarkFuture Demon Download]]'' series is replete with this trope. Unsurprising, really, given the title of the first novel and the series overall. The first book has a demon infecting computer systems and operating any technology those computer systems are connected to, resulting in a demon-possessed United States Road Cavalry cruiser and later on, possessed kitchen appliances. In ''Comeback Tour'', the only reason the Josephites are able to get the Needlepoint system working is that [[spoiler:they're using voodoo to have the KillSat possessed by Elder Seth.]]

** In ''The Practical Joker", an playful energy cloud took over the Enterprise computer and played pranks on the crew.
** It also happened in the episode "[[http://tinyurl.com/64tyl9 Beyond the Farthest Star]]", when an alien entity took over the Enterprise bridge's intruder control system.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': As said in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/stories/357-saks-and-violence Saks And Violence]]:
-->"Junkyard is a ghost that was empowered by contact with the Fred Force, so that it could possess and animate technology."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Ghost in the Machines," Bender's [[VirtualGhost disembodied software]] is able to inhabit and manipulate technology, from toasters and telephones all the way up to [[spoiler:the Robot Devil himself]].
** In one episode, Bender the robot inherits a castle that turns out to haunted by robot ghosts because their graves are inadequately grounded.
--->'''Ghost:''' Come with us Bender. You'll like being ''dead''!\\
'''Bender:''' That's what they said about being ''alive''!.
* Ghost Robot, a superhero from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros,'' is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a ghost possessing a robot.]]

* ''VideoGame/AmandaTheAdventurer'' revolves around a set of haunted VHS tapes of a CorruptedCharacterCopy of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession possessed by a demon and the ghost of her voice actress]]]].

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMGdLa-n9r0 User666]]'' - a haunted Youtube video!