Are zombies real?

Question

Are zombies real that's always been bugging me.PLEASE i REALLY need to know.

Answer 1

I belkeave there have been some cases of them in africa where people were druged and beared to reapear weeks latter very convused but I am not sure if that is what you mean ????

Answer 2

Some people have come close to the right answer but not quite.

The voodoo priests know how to make a powder from the skin of the porcupine fish which contains tetrodotoxin. This powder looks very similar to dirt and just touching it allows the toxin to be absorbed through the skin if the skin is moist. This is why it works in the tropics but wouldn't work very well in the artic or desert. This toxin depresses respiration and makes breathing and hearbeat too faint to detect without modern medical instruments. So, the person appears dead.

The person is then buried and in these countries no embalming is done. So, the person is buried alive. The next part is tricky. The priest will wait a certain length of time. The goal is to dig the person up after oxygen deprivation has caused brain damage. This brain damaged person is the classic zombie. The person has seemingly risen from the dead but is now lesser than before. Someone seeing or talking to this brain damaged person might well think that they were somehow the walking dead or a reanimated corpse. In reality it is just brain damage.

This process is not exact. Typically it is carried out on someone whom the priests feel deserves to be punished. If too much toxin is absorbed the person will die suddenly and mysteriously and this too adds to the perception of voodoo power. If the person doesn't absorb enough they merely become lethargic or fall into a deep sleep. Again, these too will add to the voodoo myth. If the person gets the right amount and is buried then the second problem arises. If the person goes too long after being buried they will in fact suffocate in the casket. If this happens then again no loss to the voodoo priest. If the person is not buried long enough then no brain damage occurs and the person will fully recover. However, again, this seemingly miraculous rising from the dead gives the illusion that voodoo power is extremely potent and has power over life and death.

Obviously, this process wouldn't work in a modern country where they could tell that the heart was still beating. Nor would it work where the body was embalmed as typically happens when the funeral takes place several days later. As to the potency of tetrodotoxin, it most certainly is. I once had a puffer fish in my aquarium and made the mistake of putting it in with an ill tempered dempsey. The dempsey bit the puffer and was dead in less than five minutes just from that contact.

So, the answer is that there is no such thing as a zombie in terms of the walking dead or reanimated dead but there is such a thing as a brain damaged person who was thought to be dead.

Answer 3

Not really
The voodoo witch doctors have for a very long time taken a piece os a fish that has a chemical that makes this illusion possible.

Sort of like the Blow fish has a poisonous part.

This special fish is made into a potion and given to a person and they pass out. They go into a comatose state and their breathing is so shallow and slow that they look dead.

The Voodoo Doctor then buries the person, and the next day he is dug up and brought out of the grave.

The "special encantation" is said and eventually the person will come back around just like coming out of anesthesia.

Since they are still so doped up they walk around like a zombie for several hours afterwards.

Answer 4

Well, that is hard to answer. For the people of Haiti, who believe in the old religion, zombies are definitely real.
For someone not of their religion, zombies would of course not exist, but it would be the same as Protestants saying they don't believe in the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.

Answer 5

don't name it zombie,,,, let's just name it, animated dead

yes, some old tribe in indonesian for burial purpose..... there is rites tu walk the dead to their grave ( the corps walk their self to the cliff that is grave), if the dead even hear you breathing, then it fail, and the family have to climb the cliff to manually put the corps

do you have faith? Jesus raise few men from the dead,,,,,

Answer 6

Yes they are, you can go to most any church on Sunday morings and find them. They are the ones with the Kool Aid.

Real faith is in action and deed, not in words alone.

Answer 7

The rapture...HAH!!!...you nerd. Yes Zombies are real, LOOK OUT THERE'S ONE RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!

Answer 8

No, but wait until the rapture...Then yes.

Answer 9

no.