The Dream Probe is a fictional technological item featured in comics books published by Eternity Comics, and later Chaos! Comics. It related to the Evil Ernie line of comic book titles and first appeared in Evil Ernie #1 in December, 1991.
The Dream Probe was a highly advanced experimental device developed by Doctor Richard Young of the Clearview Mental Institution in New Jersey. The Dream Probe could monitor, record and manipulate the dream states of it subjects. It was his belief that this device could suspend latent antisocial tendencies. One of his early test subjects was a young boy named Ernest Fairchild, who possessed the clairvoyant ability to predict future events. Price analyzed Fairchild shortly after the boy had brutally murdered his parents in a fit of rage. Fairchild grew older and was bounced around from one institution to the next.
He returned to Doctor Price's care after going on a killing spree in his home town. By this point, Price had been coordinating his research with a brilliant young doctor named Mary Young. Young had developed a Neurotech device, which was used to upgrade the Dream Probe. They decided to use it on Ernest Fairchild once again. However, upon activation, the device exploded, killing Fairchild. The mysterious goddess known as Lady Death, who had maintained a telepathic link to Fairchild by way of his powers, resurrected him as an undead ghoul and sent him back to the land of the living with only one meager task at hand: to kill every single person on the planet Earth.