Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Ghost Boy” director Rodney Ascher first learned about Martin Pistorius through the NPR podcast “Invisibilia.” “I remember hearing ...

Director Rodney Ascher's obsession with horror and mysterious phenomena takes a tragic real turn in Ghost Boy, which is based ...

Imagine this. Twelve agonizing years trapped inside your own body, fully conscious, utterly helpless. Your world reduced to an endless, mind-numbing loop of Barney reruns, day after brutal day. This ...

(NEWSER) — Martin Pistorius was a kid so into electronics, his mom had no doubts about his ability to fix a broken plug for her when he wasn't yet 11 (which he did). But shortly after turning 12 in ...

A man was locked inside his body for more than a decade, after doctors said he was in a vegetative state. What doctors and his parents didn't know -- his body didn't work -- but his brain did. For 12 ...

SXSW: At age 12, Martin Pistorius slipped into a waking coma. By 16, his consciousness began to return, but it would take years before others realized. About eight or so years back, my dad started ...

“Ghost Boy” director Rodney Ascher first learned about Martin Pistorius through the NPR podcast “Invisibilia.” “I remember hearing the story and thinking, ‘This is the kind of story that I would like ...