Multiple clay puppets with creepy open-mouthed expressions were discovered at the top of a pyramid in El Salvador. The figurines are around 2,400 years old.

Archaeologists have unearthed five ceramic puppets from a pyramid in San Isidro ... suggesting that they were operated like marionettes. Part of the smallest figure fits neatly inside the hollow ...

Billy is bad enough as far as creepy puppets go, but Mary had multiple dolls, which were buried, and she even turned one of her victims into a marionette. Not only that, she can actually re ...

The figurines may have served a variety of purposes, the study argues, including "being, effectively, marionettes ... creepy because of their vivid expressions." Szymański also noted that the ...