Zombies are real [can I has brains]

“Zombiism exists and is a societal phenomenon that can be explained logically.” – Harvard Botanist E. Wade Davis

No, they don’t look like the ones you’ve seen in movies and video games, nor do they crave your brain for teh noms. They’re just people put in very deep comas with toxic concoctions, probably declared dead, then “revived” soon after with hallucinogenic plants. The process makes them very obedient and easy to control. It’s not magic, it’s science.

One pretty widespread story about zombiism is that of Clairvius Narcisse.

On a brilliant day in the spring of 1980, a stranger arrived at L’Estère marketplace in Haiti’s fertile Artibonite Valley. The man’s gait was heavy, his eyes vacant. The peasants watched fearfully as he approached a local woman named Angelina Narcisse. She listened as he introduced himself, then screamed in horror—and recognition. The man had given the boyhood nickname of her deceased brother Clairvius Narcisse, a name that was known only to family members and had not been used since his funeral in 1962.

[via: time.com]