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This video discusses the classic movie from George A. Romero "Night of the Living Dead, which was inspired by another classic movie  "I am Legend".
"Night of the Living Dead" is considered one of the first real zombie movies. The video also talked about The Walking Dead, and how it was pitched to sponsors as being like “all those zombie movies with people surviving in this zombie apocalypse world” but it “never ends”.
The narrator also talks about how to control fear, which he explains very quickly. I wish he had spent more time discussing this in more details, as it seems really interesting.
This video being from Fox News was a red flag to me right off the bat, as they aren't exactly the prime place for unbiased news. They use a lot of ancient wisdom and red herring in many of their stories to distract from what they are supposed to be talking about. They also can use simplicity to justify their points in order to avoid doing farther research or studies.

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The history of zombies: Where did the phenomenon begin?

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Post #3: A Brief History of Zombies - FootofaFerret

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Part two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3562663089&feature=iv&src_vid=o4pH6dmsdxo&v=fapM2kLq0_g

This two-part mini series in the "Brief History" segments on YouTube tells the viewers about different beliefs in reviving the dead, including using the powers from wizards, witches, and even babies. They also do a quick synopsis into how zombies are ingrained into our culture. This video seems to use a lot of ancient wisdom to justify their points, as well as mystical energy. It also uses the explained reason for belief, as there isn't any solid proof of what they're saying. They also speak very rapidly, to make it sound like they know what they're talking about more than they probably do.

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A Brief History of Zombies (Feat. T. Michael Martin)

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Post #4: The Real Story Behind the Myth of Zombies - TheTalko

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This video's main story really captured me, so I'm sorry this post will be a bit longer. The story is of Clairvius Narcisse, a man who fell sick and died, but it was later discovered a Voodoo priest gave him a substance that mimicked death in humans. The priest then continued giving Clairvius drugs that kept him in a zombified trace for nearly 2 decades as he was used as a slave.
This story uses ancient wisdom and confirmation bias, as well as mystical energy. I sense a bit of suppression by authority hiding in the tones of this narrators voice, hinting that this main story was hidden from the world by authoritative figures trying to keep it a secret. The story of Clairvius uses emotional connection because his sister finds him 20 years after he was presumed dead. Ideology may be grouped in here as well, because it mentions how living a life of sin can cause you to be a zombie in the afterlife, which links to religious beliefs.

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The REAL STORY Behind The Myth Of Zombies

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This article discusses traits of zombies (caused by reanimated corpses or being bitten by someone with a virus), and ways of communication.

Origins including ancient Greeks pinning down skeletons with rocks and heavy objects.

It also briefly discusses zombies in pop culture, from Frankenstein to Scooby Doo and the Walking Dead.
This article screams ancient wisdom, because it discusses zombies in Greek and other folklore in fairly large amounts of depth.

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Zombie Traits

A zombie, according to pop culture and folklore, is usually either a reawakened corpse with a ravenous appetite or someone bitten by another zombie infected with a "zombie virus."

Zombies are usually portrayed as strong but robotic beings with rotting flesh. Their only mission is to feed. They typically don't have conversations (although some may grunt a little).

Origin of Zombies

The Ancient Greeks may have been the first civilization terrorized by a fear of the undead. Archaeologists have unearthed many ancient graves which contained skeletons pinned down by rocks and other heavy objects, assumedly to prevent the dead bodies from reanimating.

Zombie folklore has been around for centuries in Haiti, possibly originating in the 17th century when West African slaves were brought in to work on Haiti's sugar cane plantations. Brutal conditions left the slaves longing for freedom. According to some reports, the life-or rather afterlife-of a zombie represented the horrific plight of slavery.

Zombies and Voodoo

Voodoo (sometimes spelled vodou or vodun) is a religion based in West Africa and practiced throughout Haiti and the Caribbean, Brazil, the American South and other places with an African heritage.

Many people who follow the voodoo religion today believe zombies are myths, but some believe zombies are people revived by a voodoo practitioner known as a bokor.

Bokors have a tradition of using herbs, shells, fish, animal parts, bones and other objects to create concoctions including "zombie powders," which contain tetrodotoxin, a deadly neurotoxin found in pufferfish and some other marine species.

Used carefully at sub-lethal doses, the tetrodotoxin combination may cause zombie-like symptoms such as difficulty walking, mental confusion and respiratory problems.

High doses of tetrodotoxin can lead to paralysis and coma. This could cause someone to appear dead and be buried alive - then later revived.

Real Zombies Reported in Medical Journals

Though it's rare, there are several credible reports in medical journals of people using these compounds to induce paralysis in people, then revive them from the grave.

A 1997 article in the British medical journal The Lancet described three verifiable accounts of zombies. In one case, a Haitian woman who appeared to be dead was buried in a family tomb, only to reappear three years later. An investigation revealed that her tomb was filled with stones, and her parents agreed to admit her to a local hospital.

In another well-documented case, a Haitian man named Clairvius Narcisse entered a local hospital with severe respiratory problems in 1962. After he slipped into a coma, Narcisse was declared dead was buried shortly thereafter.

But 18 years later, a man walked up to Angelina Narcisse in a village marketplace, insisting she was his sister. Doctors, townspeople and family members all identified him as Clairvius Narcisse, who claimed he had been buried alive, then dug up and put to work on a distant sugar plantation.

Zombies in Pop Culture

According to The Undead Eighteenth Century by Linda Troost, zombies appeared in literature as far back as 1697 and were described as spirits or ghosts, not cannibalistic fiends.

They arrived on the film scene around the same time as their monster peers, Frankenstein and Dracula, with the 1932 release of White Zombie.

But it wasn't until 1968 that zombies acquired a cult following of their own with the release of Night of the Living Dead, directed by George Romero. Over the next 15 years, Romero directed two more zombie films, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead. As special effects technology improved with each film, the zombies appeared more gruesome and realistic.

From the 1980s on, dozens of zombie films were made. Even Scooby Doo battled zombies in the 1998 film Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. And the 2013 release of World War Z starring Brad Pitt brought zombie culture to a disturbing new level.

Not surprisingly, television jumped on the zombie bandwagon with shows like iZombie and Helix. But no zombies ever terrified more television viewers than those on The Walking Dead. Each show features a post-apocalyptic zombie feeding frenzy that leaves fans horrified yet unable to look away.

Are Zombies in the Bible?

The modern-day, carnivorous zombie isn't in the Bible. But there are many references to bodies being reanimated or resurrected which may have inspired zombie myths throughout history.

The book of Ezekiel describes a vision where Ezekiel is dropped in a boneyard and prophesies to the bones. The bones start to shake and become covered with muscle and flesh until they're reanimated yet "there was no breath in them."

And the book of Isaiah states, "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead."

Moreover, passages abound in the both the Old and New Testaments about the resurrection of saints and sinners in the end times. This may be one reason so many zombie stories are associated with an apocalypse.

Our Fascination with Zombies

Why does the modern world have such a love affair with zombies? History may be to blame, according to Stanford literary scholar Angela Becerra Vidergar.

Vidergar tells Stanford News she believes mankind's perception of violence took a drastic turn after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. She feels such large-scale disasters cause people to fictionalize their deaths on a mass scale and focus on survival of the fittest, a common theme among zombie narratives.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agrees. They took advantage of zombie mania and created a "Zombie Preparedness" website to motivate people to prepare for disasters and offer tips on how to survive a zombie apocalypse and other catastrophes. The site was a huge hit.

Whether you're a fan of zombies or the thought of running into one causes you to sleep with one eye open, they're part of modern pop culture. Although the zombie myth has a basis in fact, today's zombies have taken on a life of their own.

Sources

Haiti and the Truth About Zombies. University of Michigan.
How to Make a Zombie (Seriously). Live Science.
Tetrodotoxin. Toxnet.
Stanford Scholar Explains Why Zombie Fascination is Very Much Alive. Stanford News.
Zoinks! Tracing the History of Zombies from Haiti to the CDC. NPR.
Zombie Burials? Ancient Greeks Used Rocks to Keep Bodies in Graves. Live Science.
Zombies. University of Michigan.
Zombies and Tetrodotoxin. Skeptical Inquirer.
The Undead Eighteenth Century. Linda Troost.
Zombie apocalypse a coup for CDC emergency team. Washington Post.

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A zombie, according to pop culture and folklore, is usually either a reawakened corpse with a ravenous appetite or someone bitten by another zombie infected with a "zombie virus." Zombies are usually portrayed as strong but robotic beings with rotting flesh. Their only mission is to feed.

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Post #6: History of Zombies - Anthropology

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This post explains Coup Padre, which is the drug used to make humans appear dead when they are not. Victims of what some assume to be zombie attacks appear to have human teeth marks on their bones. Some suggest it could be cannibals, but cannibals prepare their meals with knives and other sharp tools, so this theory does not add up.
This article seems to use simplicity to explain its points, as well as ancient wisdom to back up what they're saying.

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It seems as though zombies are coming increasingly more popular in pop culture as time goes on. Countless movies, books, video games, and even TV shows based on zombies have dated back to 1932 when the first feature length zombie film, White Zombie, came out. But have you ever wondered where the images and ideas of the reanimation of dead people came from? Rising from the grave, rotting, pasty, green skin, an uncanny taste for human flesh and brains that can all be ended with a blow to the head. As far as how exactly the people came to zombies varies, but the characteristics described earlier usually stay pretty constant.

History shows that this idea dates back to the 8th century. The word 'zombie' is said to have come from nzambi, which in Kongo means 'spirit of a dead person', or zonbi, used in the Louisiana Creole or the Haitian Creole that represents a person who died and was then brought to life without speech or free will.

Voodoo folklore contends that Bokors, Voodoo priests that were concerned with the study and application of black magic, posessed the ability to ressurrect the deceased through the administration of coup padre- coup padre is a powder that is issued orally, the primary ingredient of which is tetrodoxin, the deadly substance of the notoriously poisonous fou-fou, or "porcupine fish." According to lengend, "a zombi(e) is someone who has annoyed his or her family and community to the degree that they can no longer stand to live with this person. They respond by hiring a Bokor..to turn them into a zombi(e)." (www.flmnh.ufl.edu)

Once they had been issued the coup padre, the subjects being prepared for their descent into zombidom would appear to die insofar as their heart rate would slow to a near stop, their breathing patterns would be greatly subdued and their body temperature would significantly decrease. The public, thinking that the person was dead, would bury him/ her as if they were a corpse. They would then be exhumed, still alive, by the Bokor and, although their physicality remained intact, their memory would be erased and they would be transformed into mindless drones. "Though still living, they remain under the Bokor's power until the Bokor dies." (www.flmnh.ufl.edu)

Remains thought to be zombies have been found from evidence that they have been decapitated, or had their brains removed. Victims of zombies have been found with signs of human teeth marks on the found bones. You could say it might be cannibals, but traditionally they will 'prepare' their meals with knives or other tools, hence no teeth marks.

Some people even have said that the Mayans were destroyed by zombies. Reports of widespread cannibalism at the end of the Mayan civilization suggests something much more sinister than a simple drought or cross-tribal dispute. Bones found in and around Mayan cities show signs of being violently ripped from their sockets, and chewed to bits on the spot. Evidence has even been found of children eating their parents, and entire villages devouring themselves within a matter of days.

Found in Syria, evidence suggests that the Stone Age heads were originally buried with their bodies intact, but then after several years they were dug up and their skulls were crushed and separated from the rest of the skeleton. No one knows why the face-smashing and careful removal of the heads took place. Some say it could have been because the people of the area were trying to prevent the dead from coming back to life.

The act of putting gravestones on top of had apparently come from the fear that the dead might come back to life. It started by placing rocks over a fresh graves, keeping the dead from coming back out of the ground.

What we know as zombies today is largely a myth, but there is a small amount of truth. Voodoo and witchcraft were a huge part of the Haitian culture, which produced 'zombies'. Whether or not it actually works doesn't matter, here is where the saying 'mind over matter' comes into play. People were given the terotoxin and soon believed themselves into becoming a zombie. From there, the rest of the story comes together, with money as a motivation, stories were changed for the people's pleasure.

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Post #7: History of Zombies from Ancient Times to Pop Culture - Historic Mysteries

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This explains zombies in the Stone Age, where human remains were found with bashed in skulls and decapitated from the original body.

The Greeks would incinerate, dismember, or restrain a dead person within their grave, to ensure they had no chance of escaping if they were reanimated. This stemmed from the Greeks belief that those who committed suicide, got murdered, or were “illegitimate children” would be likely to rise from the dead. Others that were clumped into this group included babies born on an unlucky day or born with congenital defects, as well as people who died from drowning, being cursed, or from the plague.

Confusion of correlation with causation may be applied here because of the assumptions made by the Greeks. Mystical energy is being used to explain how the dead are rising up from their graves.

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Fear of the undead began thousands of years ago.

The concept of dead people returning from their graves is thousands of years old. Many cultures around the world were once immersed in superstitions and legends about the undead that they believed wholeheartedly. Thus, they developed their own ideas about zombies, also called revenants, in one form or another. Those legends that once brought unbelievable fear now, in most parts of the world, bring us entertainment in the form of books and movies. What exactly is the worldwide history of zombies, and how did the concept make its way into mainstream pop culture?

Origin of "Zombie"

The word zombie most likely derives from the West African Kimbundu word "nzambi," the name for a snake god or any divine spirit. It later came to mean "reanimated corpse" in the voodoo tradition ( Online Etymology Dictionary). In Haitian Creole or Haitian French the zombie describes a monster from Haitian folklore. As per the legend, a zombie is a dead body that has been reanimated by black magic. The word first entered the English language in 1819, when the poet Robert Southey wrote "History of Brazil." Over a century later, W.B. Seabrook wrote a novel that introduced zombies to America, "The Magic Island," which was about Haitian voodoo cults and their zombie minions. The first horror movie about zombies, "White Zombie," came out three years later in 1932.

Zombies in the Stone Age

The history of zombies may go back all the way to the Stone Age. Some scholars believe that fear of reanimated corpses may have led to the evolution of the gravestone. Originally, people would place cairns or piles of rocks over a freshly buried body to make sure it could not dig its way out. In the article, "The Surprising History Behind Gravestones," Mica Matlack explains that the usage of gravestones was to keep the dead in their graves:

In the stone age, when humans were still nomadic in nature, the dead would be buried and a great stone or boulder rolled atop the grave. These stones were called gravestones and their purpose was to prevent the deceased from rising after death, a fear still prevalent in modern society.

In Syria, Archaeologists found skulls from a site that they dated at 10,000 years old. Someone bashed the skulls in and completely removed them from the rest of their bodies. Apparently, this ritual was a tradition for some time in the Europe/Near East region, as archaeologists have found other sites like this. Although scholars have posed many viable theories, Juan José Ibañez from the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona says that "the find may suggest that Stone Age cultures believed dead young men were a threat to the world of the living. ( New Scientist).

Ancient Greek Zombies

In the 1980s, archaeologists found graves in a necropolis in Sicily, which was colonized by Greeks around 800 BC. Some of the tombs contained bodies pinned down with rocks and other heavy objects. Experts speculate that those particular sites may have belonged to people whom the Greeks thought were capable of rising from their graves. To prevent a revenant from getting out, the ancient Greeks would either incinerate, dismember, or restrain the individual in its grave.

Dr. Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver, archaeologist and researcher of the Passo Marinaro necropolis in Sicily explains:

"In the ancient world, revenants are feared because it is believed that they leave their graves at night for the explicit purpose of harming the living...revenants could be trapped in their graves by being tied, staked, flipped onto their stomachs, buried exceptionally deep, or pinned with rocks or other heavy objects.

Tomb number 653 in Kamarina's Passo Marinaro necropolis contains an adult whose head and feet are completely covered by large fragments of an amphora (a ceramic storage vessel), presumably intended to pin the individual to the grave and prevent it from seeing or rising. The second tomb, number 693, contains a child approximately 8 to 13 years old, with five large stones placed on top. Like the amphora fragments, it appears that these stones were used to trap the body in its grave."

Greek Beliefs About Zombies

The ancient Greeks believed that certain people were especially likely to return as revenants. Those people included suicides, murder victims, and illegitimate children. Additionally, babies born on an unlucky day or with congenital defects, and people who had died from drowning, plague or a curse could rise again. Since the initial find in the 1980s, archaeologists have found more revenant graves, including some in Cyprus that were buried between 4500 and 3800 BC and were pinned down by millstones.

The Undead Around the World

Norse mythology describes the draugr, which is a revenant or undead creature. The word draugr means "again walker." They live in their tombs, but can escape to visit the living to find victims. Draugr are generally very large and swollen, ugly, and black. If someone is bitten by one, the bitten person can become a draugr. The Norse monster kills its victims by crushing them or eating them alive, flesh and blood. However, unlike the more modern zombie, the draugr has a variety of supernatural powers. This undead creature can shape-shift and can also drive someone mad or enter into their dreams.

In China, the Jiang Shi, which is Chinese for "stiff corpse," combines the attributes of the zombie and the vampire. The Jiang Shi are often people who had been the victims of suicide or murder. They can look more or less normal, if recently dead, or their bodies can have mold and decaying flesh on them. The Chinese zombie moves by hopping.

The Strigoi is a Romanian zombie that also includes many traits of the vampire. They drink blood and can transform into animals. People become strigoi if they've led troubled or unfinished lives. People who are illegitimate or die before becoming baptized may also become strigoi. Because those who die without marrying are also at risk, some communities will marry the corpse to a living person of around the same age to prevent them from rising as a strigoi.

From Africa to Haiti and America

The history of zombies in Haiti has an African origin. As noted, the word zombie goes back to West Africa, as does the religion of Voodoo. However, the West African zombie did not have a body; it was formless. In some South African countries they believed in physical zombies with bodies. In those countries, children or witches could turn someone into a zombie. A witch could kill a person and then reanimate the body to use for her own personal deeds.

Ideas about zombies and the practice of voodoo migrated throughout the world with the slave trade. The French ruled Haiti from 1625 to 1804, and they established sugar plantations. They imported slaves from Africa to operate the plantations, and those slaves brought their folklore and beliefs with them. This story is paralleled in America.

Haitian Voodoo Beliefs About the Dead

Haitians, in general, practice Voodoo. Followers of the religion believe that all deaths are categorized as natural, like old age or disease, and unnatural, like murder. The spirits of people who die from unnatural causes tend to linger near their grave, for they have to wait for approval from the gods before they can join their ancestors. Souls in this state are vulnerable to abduction by a powerful bokor or sorcerer who can imprison the soul in a jar and use it to control their body.

Interestingly, Haitians find the bokor far more frightening than the zombie, for the zombie is completely at the bokor's mercy and has to obey them. Some bokors are benevolent and use the zombie to help them perform healing magic. An evil bokor, however, might murder someone in order to bind them as a zombie - and Haitians find the prospect of such servitude terrifying.

History of Zombies in Pop Culture

The history of zombies around the world is a long one, and thus, it has inspired many depictions in popular culture. One of the very first fictional stories about the undead was Philinnion and Machates, written by Phlegon of Tralles, the Greek author of the Olympiads. The story tells of a young woman, Philinnion, who dies, but comes back to life and returns to her parents' home. She proceeds to have sex with a visitor, Machates, at the home repeatedly over the course of a few nights. She explains that the gods of the underworld approved her resurrection, and then she suddenly dies again.

Perhaps the most famous single zombie of all times is Dr. Frankenstein's monster, the main character in Mary Shelley's novel of 1818. Frankenstein reanimated his monster with lightning and the creature had many of the features of the modern zombie. However, Shelly personified him with human emotion, evident in the rage he felt as a result of the rejection he faced.

As noted, the first zombie movie ever made was Victor Halperin's 1932 White Zombie, in which the famous Bela Lugosi starred as the antagonist. The plot involved a woman in Haiti who an evil voodoo priest turns into a zombie. The priest uses a magic potion that "kills" her and then allows her to live again.

More Recent Zombie Films

George Romero made Night of the Living Dead in 1968. It is considered one of the most influential horror movies ever. It arguably introduced the idea of the "zombie apocalypse" and portrayed zombies as aggressive predators rather than mindless slaves. Living Dead influenced and inspired such later portrayals of zombies as 28 Days Later (2002) and the acclaimed TV show The Walking Dead.

Generally, the modern zombie has fewer characteristics of the voodoo zombie, which had supernatural roots. Black magic and possession control the voodoo zombie. However, most modern zombies have a biological basis. They are the result of a contagious virus that attacks and kills the human. But allows it to reanimate into flesh eating creatures. The zombie apocalypse is based on this premise.

The Stone Age to the Information Age

Humans have been preoccupied with the undead for a long time. The history of zombies is a worldwide phenomenon. Our society, in general, has grown to love the zombie, and today it is a nearly $6 billion industry. The idea has persisted throughout time, geographic regions, and cultures, and readily found its way to the information age, where we can't wait to stream all the best zombie flicks...in HD.

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The concept of dead people returning from their graves is thousands of years old. Many cultures around the world were once immersed in superstitions and legends about the undead that they believed wholeheartedly. Thus, they developed their own ideas about zombies, also called revenants, in one form or another.

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This photo is of a classic scene from "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), a movie directed by George A. Romero. This was one of the first big zombie movies to become popular, and it inspired many decades of undead movies to follow.
This photo could convince someone who believes in zombies that the apocalypse is starting, as it looks very real. This is confirmation bias.

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This still is from Michael Jackson's iconic music video for his song "Thriller". In this video, Michael himself becomes a member of the undead and dances around a graveyard with fellow zombies. This, of course, is very different from most zombie stories, but it does have many elements taken from classic zombie lore.
This has very strong emotional connection, as many people loved Michael Jackson and his music. Appeal to Authority can also be considered, as Michael was a huge superstar.

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This picture shows a relatively detailed plan on what to do if a zombie outbreak happens. This shows that humans have started to prepare in case the dead begin to rise from their graves, and we have detailed plans of what to do if it happens. I have friends myself that know exactly where they want to go and what they will do the second zombies try to take over. They have planned their teams, their weapons of choice, where to stock up on items, etc.
This photo links strongly with ideology, as religious and other views may influence your beliefs on zombies or other similar events. Perception and observation is also possible, as many people get their ideas for preparing for the zombie apocalypse from movies, tv shows, and video games where humans are actually fighting off undead armies.