Do zombies exist?

Question

I have read a book about zombies and it says it is a plague caused by the chemical solanum, causing the body to reanimate after dying (shortly after infection) making the person crave human flesh, thus infecting them.
I also read of about 20-30 recorded attacks which all showed striking similarities on how to kill zombies, their appearance and how they act. I also read that a nation tried to breed a zombie army but destroyed the site and scientists after an outbreak claiming it was a missile test.
So, are zombies for real?

Answer 1

The only actual zombies on record are people who have been poisoned by a VooDoo priest/priestess with a drug that makes it appear that they are dead. When the poison wears off, it has destroyed the brain so much, the person just wanders around and will do whatever someone tells them like a slave. That's the only real case of a zombie I have ever half-believed.

Answer 2

In the way you describe, no...

I have been interested in Zombies since a very young age. There hasn't recently and never has been anything even remotely resembling a Zombie outbreak.

A Zombie, as you describe, is the walking dead, hellbent on infecting every last living human with an incurable disease and feasting on the flesh of their recent victims... This type of zombie does not exist, yet.

The most 'realistic' thing which is even remotely close to what you describe would be the 28days scenario, living people infected in such a way that it alters that persons perception of reality and makes them hellbent on killing and infecting other people... But that is still very much fantasy horror.

That said, try looking around for parasites and their ability to change the behaviour of their infected hosts... It's quite interesting... There are some parasites which acually make thier hosts commit suicide in a certain way to allow the parasite to live on... Who knows, in a few hundred years and a few hundred mad scientists, we might have the zombie outbreak we are all waiting for!

Answer 3

actually there is a number of reports that i have seen involving the puffer fish venom as well. It shuts down body functions and slows others too the point that a doctor could mistake someone as being dead. Then later that person was dug up and used as slave labor while being constantly drugged to maintain a trance like state. It was in the paper a man was reunited with his family after they believed him dead for 30 years due to this process. As for the craving flesh... If I had a number of "zombie" slaves to do my bidding and it took very little coaxing to get them to do hideous things. Then yeah, eat his flesh while he is still alive and let him watch as the same is happening to his family. This would be a very effective way of preventing people from thinking about being my enemy...

Answer 4

Umm, I say this without sarcasm and with complete sincerity.... please, please try to choose your references more wisely.

Think about it, my friend... if such attacks ever occurred and the evidence were substantiatable, don't you think the media would be all over it like they spend 23 hours a day talking about Anna Nicole Smith (while spending MAYBE ten minutes a day on things that do matter, such as developments in cancer and stem cell research, or the weekly discoveries made by the rovers we placed on Mars years ago)?

The media is all about sensational stories, whether they're important to our lives or not. If there were even evidence that such things *existed* wouldn't the same be true? And more importantly, wouldn't there be thousands of citations about them in *credible*, scientifically-based books and journals?

The Solanum is a plant in the potato family. The word is also used to describe a *fictional* virus -- not a chemical, as you say -- which "explains" zombie outbreaks, in a book called The Zombie Survival Guide. The book is a *parody* of more serious survival books.

If there are other sources on this ridiculous subject, please remember that people say and publish all kinds of things for all kinds of reasons... ignorance, greed, stupidity, to "get one over" on somebody, lack of skepticism, or outright lunacy.

No, zombies are not for real. Neither are a hundred other things many people believe in. If humans re-focused the time they spend on pseudoscience and mythology onto ways to learn about and improve their planet and its people, we'd all benefit tremendously.

Answer 5

I, too, have read the book you're speaking of. And I personally believe everything the book says. After the zombie invasion, that book will save the human race. (Or at least, every human who's read it)

Answer 6

I have seen several Zombies here at my office this morning. I think Coffee is the cure.

Answer 7

It sounds like you're making a lot of important scholarly progress on this one. Keep reading.

Answer 8

Wow, didn't know that. Keep researching and get back to me when you find hard evidence.

Answer 9

it is possible that zombies do exist. satan and his demons can create just about anything to get you to believe in him. i also believe that a lot of the beliefs and stories have been created as a sort of mind control by different religions and ethnic peoples, which is also spawned by satan. read your bible and it will tell u that because of satan evil is a very real part of our lives.

Answer 10

Nah, its all bs.