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* ''WebAnimation/HTFPlus: In ''HTF+LG 3'' Evil Pinkie Pie and LG Creepybloom are shown to be able to posses televisions.
** In ''HTF+CC 2'' Evil Pinkie Pie is also shown to communicate with subtitles on the screen to Flippy.

* The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} [[SdrawkcabName Rotom]], first introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'', is an Electric/Ghost-type that can possess electronics. It's first found in a TV set, and ''Platinum'' allows it to possess an oven, lawnmower, fridge, washing machine and fan to change its form, moves and (from Gen V onwards) type. ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' [[InvokedTrope invokes]] the trope by having the player's Pokédex be designed to house a Rotom, which possesses it and acts as its A.I. Sadly, this form can't actually fight; it merely acts as a FairyCompanion (''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'' gives the Rotom Dex more unique functions, however, such as being able to use Z-Moves more than once and giving special items that can be used in and out of battle, making it more useful than in the original games). ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' takes it further by introducing all sorts of Rotom-operated technology, including smartphones (with Pokédex functionality), storage [=PCs=], and even bikes. One League Staff employee even gives you a entire ''catalogue'' of all of Rotom's forms once you defeat him in battle so that you can change its form and type anywhere you go.

* The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} [[SdrawkcabName Rotom]], first introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'', is an Electric/Ghost-type that can possess electronics. It's first found in a TV set, and ''Platinum'' allows it to possess an oven, lawnmower, fridge, washing machine and fan to change its form, moves and (from Gen V onwards) type. ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' [[InvokedTrope invokes]] the trope by having the player's Pokédex be designed to house a Rotom, which possesses it and acts as its A.I. Sadly, this form can't actually fight; it merely acts as a FairyCompanion (''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'' gives the Rotom Dex more unique functions, however, such as being able to use Z-Moves more than once and giving special items that can be used in and out of battle, making it more useful than in the original games). ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' takes it further by introducing all sorts of Rotom-operated technology, including smartphones (with Pokédex functionality), storage [=PCs=] and even bikes.

* The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} [[SdrawkcabName Rotom]], first introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'', is an Electric/Ghost-type that can possess electronics. It's first found in a TV set, and ''Platinum'' allows it to possess an oven, lawnmower, fridge, washing machine and fan to change its form, moves and (from Gen V onwards) type. ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' [[InvokedTrope invokes]] the trope by having the player's Pokédex be designed to house a Rotom, which possesses it and acts as its A.I. Sadly, this form can't actually fight; it merely acts as a FairyCompanion. ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' takes it further by introducing all sorts of Rotom-operated technology, including smartphones (with Pokédex functionality), storage [=PCs=] and even bikes.

* ''Film/UltramanRBTheMovieSelectTheCrystalOfBond'': The villain of the picture, Ultraman Tregear, uses television and computer screens to travel between dimensions in a rather blatant reference to ''Ringu''. 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.

* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' - in the ''Horror on the Orient Express'' campaign [[spolier:cultists turn the locomotive of the titular Orient Express into an avatr of an EldrichAbomination]].

** 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 regient she callsed 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.

* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' has [[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 hundreds or thousands of light years apart.

* ''Manga/ThoseWhoHuntElves'' has a haunted/possessed tank. Luckily, it's an animal's ghost and is real friendly with the main cast.

* Played for laughs on one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' that featured magic seeping into various mundane things and transforming them. This included an evil plant, an evil couch, an evil TV set and an evil phone that said, "The number you've reached... is trying to kill you."

* ''WesternAnimation/PacmanAndTheGhostlyAdventures'': The episode ''Honey I Digitized The Pacman'' centers on cellphones, vehicles, and other computerized electronics getting possessed by digitized ghosts imbued with a virus.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' 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.

* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' 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 the ''Sun and Moon'' anime. For more info on Rotom, see the Video Game section.

* 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.

* ''Film/{{Creepshow 3}}'': In the second segment, Jerry buys a new radio which turns out to be this. Under its whim, he ends up stealing money and murdering people.

** 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.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', a mysterious late-night television channel somehow murders people on foggy nights. If you happen to watch it on those nights, you can see who the victim will be.

* In ''Videogame/DevilMayCry 2'', Dante and Lucia encounter a species of demon called the infestants, which have the power to merge their bodies with technology, and must do battle with several infested tanks and an infested helicopter that the infestants are controlling.

** It's implied in [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1 the original]] that this is the reason behind the {{hostile animatronics}}' behaviour -- piecing together {{easter egg}}s reveals that [[spoiler:five children went missing one day, and sometime afterwards the animatronics began to smell bad and leak blood and mucus, implying the five were murdered and their bodies hidden inside the animatronics]]. ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' elaborates on this, with [[spoiler:minigames that clearly show dead children and the Puppet placing masks of the animatronics on them while "Give Life" is an instruction]], and it's outright confirmed in ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' when [[spoiler:the spirits of the kids are freed when the animatronics are destroyed, frightening their killer into the deadly Springtrap suit, which it's implied he himself haunts during the main game]].
** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' plays with this; the game's animatronics ''aren't'' controlled by spirits, but an optional encounter with Circus Baby reveals that she once made a young girl disappear, and she can still hear her screams, but she otherwise seems to be in control of herself. Furthermore, a hidden minigame reveals that she killed the girl by dragging her inside her body, and while she has green eyes in the main game, Baby has blue eyes and the girl has green ones. Furthermore, [[spoiler:Ennard (whose body includes Baby's) speaks with the girl's voice while in the Private Room]]. However, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane there are logical explanations for each of these]]; Baby vividly remember the incident, Baby's eyes were changed/she can change their colour, and [[spoiler:Ennard is using Funtime Foxy's Voice Synth/Playback to mimic the girl's voice in an effort to get inside]].

* ''Videogame/SaltAndSanctuary'' has a medieval version in the Tree of Men, the apparent result of an entire dungeon's worth of torture tools coming to life through sheer hatred and forming a semi-coherent jumble you must fight as a boss, with its newest victims still hanging from hooks.

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* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''

* ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'' features some haunted technology, specifically a TV screen that shows static and talks to the youngest child in the family, and the whole series is thought to be cursed.

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* Rotom from the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series.

* ''Anime/Gundam'': Psychoframe has become this as more entries have explored it since its debut in Chars Counterattack{{MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack}}. At the beginning of Unicorn{{MobileSuitGundamUnicorn}}, it is noted that no one knows why the psychoframe can glow when the Gundam is activated. [[spoiler:It does more, has pushed away Axis from smashing into the Earth, led to telepathic memory sharing, created shockwaves, and stopped by the colony laser, time master powers, and can essentially break the laws of physics. It can amplify the will of the pilots or another or take over them due to negative emotions. The Neo-Zhong and Phenex Gundam are literally haunted, one by negative emotions and the other by the soul of a Newtype.]]