- You probably associate zombies
with horror movies, fiction, right?
How could it be that those who have passed on
could be possibly reanimated?
Is it even possible?
Well, prepare yourself to lose sleep
because as it turns out, zombies are real,
much more real than you're going to want to believe.
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Here are 10 real zombie cases that will haunt you.
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Number 10 is Felicia Felix-Mentor.
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One of the first people
to seriously study the zombie phenomenon
was Zora Neale Hurston.
Back in 1936, Zora documented
one of the most famous zombie cases ever recorded
and even managed to take a picture of the alleged zombie.
It started when an unknown woman stumbled
into the Haitian village of Ennery.
She walked strangely, had an aversion to light,
and moved around with a ragged cloth
partially obscuring her face.
Locals quickly recognized the woman as Felicia Felix-Mentor.
She had originally passed in 1907
but had an unmistakable limp due to a problem with her leg.
When Zora Neale Hurston investigated further,
she asked the local doctors about Felicia.
They said that not only were zombies real
but a number of powerful sorcerers
had perfected a concoction
to turn any person into an undead slave.
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Number nine is Walter Williams.
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In 2014, Walter Williams came back from the dead.
After being pronounced dead by his hospice nurse,
the county coroner and a representative
from a funeral home collected the body.
Walter's pulse was taken again
and both of the family and the county coroner agreed
that Williams was indeed deceased.
But when they transported the body
in a black body bag to the funeral home,
Williams began kicking as if trying to escape.
Horrified, the coroner reexamined the body
and concluded that Williams had come back from the dead.
Some suspect that his remarkable resurrection
was due to an implantable cardioverter defibrillator
which is normally used to correct heart arrhythmia.
It's possible that this device malfunctioned somehow
and kick started William's heart.
However, many others claimed
that it was a genuine case of zombie resurrection.
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Number eight is Clairvius Narcisse.
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Clairvius Narcisse didn't just come back from the dead.
He came back from being a zombie.
In 1962, Narcisse died suddenly and he was buried
but then 18 years later returned alive and well
to his family with a tale to tell.
He had been resurrected by a voodoo sorcerer
known as Bokor and used as a zombie slave
on a plantation for years.
Wade Davis from Harvard University proposed a theory
to explain this bizarre account.
Narcisse was given a powdered mixture
which included a puffer fish toxin.
This paralyzed the man
so that his breathing and pulse were undetectable.
After the funeral, the sorcerer dug up the body
and administered a plant extract called Datura stramonium.
This kept him dazed and compliant.
However, evidence for this is sparse
and so some believe the sorcerer used ancient knowledge
to resurrect the dead.
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Number seven is the policeman's son.
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When a policeman's son fell ill in Haiti at the age of 18,
he soon exhibited signs of becoming a zombie.
His eyes turned yellow,
he carried with him a stench of death,
and his body bloated.
Believing that the cause was a curse,
the father was helpless
and his son soon passed away.
Referred to by researchers
as Wilfred to protect his identity,
the dead teenager reappeared 19 months later.
He alleged that his uncle had turned him into a zombie.
The uncle was imprisoned for life.
Though Wilfred exhibited zombie traits
such as difficulty speaking,
a DNA test revealed that he wasn't related to his family.
The uncle believes the entire situation was invented
so that Wilfred's father could steal his inheritance.
Whoever Wilfred is,
it could be that he was made into a zombie
just to satisfy a man's greed.
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Number six is FI.
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Anthropologist Roland Littlewood and Doctor Chavannes Douyon
documented several fascinating instances
of real-life zombies.
One such case involved a 30-year-old woman
referred to as FI in order to protect her identity.
FI had a short illness and then died suddenly.
After this, she was buried near her home.
Three years later, she was found walking around a village
in a zombified state.
When she was examined by doctors,
she was diagnosed with a rare form of psychosis
known as catatonic schizophrenia.
This explained her sluggish movements
and zombie-like behavior such as being unable to speak.
No one could be certain as to what happened to FI
after her death.
Though, when her grave was opened,
they found that it was filed with rocks.
Someone had taken the body before she was buried.
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Number five is Carlos Camejo.
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During 2007, Carlos Camejo was involved
in a highway accident in Venezuela.
Unfortunately, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
After his family was informed,
Carlos' body was transported to the local morgue.
The plan was that after the autopsy,
Carlos' wife would be asked to identify the body.
However, all did not go as planned.
As the autopsy began, Carlos suddenly came back to life
as a small incision was made to his face.
When his wife finally arrived to identify his body,
she found him sitting in a corridor outside alive and well.
No official explanation has been given
and it still baffles people to this day.
Accounts like Carlos' support the theory
that many legends of the undead come from incidents
where a person's pulse and respiration
were too low to be measured.
Is that the case?
Is science the answer here
or is it something much more sinister?
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Number four is Adelin Seide.
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The zombie case of Adelin Seide took place in 2010 in Haiti.
Like most young people,
Adelin enjoyed going to parties with friends but one night,
after drinking a Haitian drink known as clarin,
he began to experience pains in his stomach.
Just a few hours later, his symptoms worsened significantly
and he suddenly died of a mysterious illness.
Later, Adelin's father discovered a group of men
stealing his son's lifeless body.
When they realized they had been discovered,
the men dropped the body and disappeared into the night.
Soon, Adelin woke up, though impaired by the ordeal.
It's possible that the men had drugged Adelin
with a neurotoxin in his drink
so that they can revive him later
and keep him sedated as a zombie to do their bidding.
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Number three is Marie.
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This zombie case is a fascinating study
of how many reports of zombies
may get caused purely by grief.
Marie was a woman in Haiti who had died supposedly
at the age of 18.
She had attended a prayer session for a friend
who herself had been zombified.
Shortly after, Marie became ill and died.
13 years later, now at the age of 31, Marie reemerged.
Her family believing that she had been used as a zombie.
Anthropologist, Richard Littlewood soon discovered
that DNA test revealed
that she wasn't part of her family at all.
Whether she had went through a zombie process isn't known.
However, many believed that the family
was so haunted by grief that they persuaded themselves
that the new Marie was their deceased daughter.
It's now thought similar incidents
may explain a large number of zombie cases.
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Number two Eunide Lazar.
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Eunide Lazar had a debilitating illness for three months
before her eventual death.
She was then buried on April 3rd, 2008
in Turgeot Cemetery in Haiti.
Belief in malevolent spirits is (mumble)
among religious people in parts of Haiti
and so it wasn't surprising
that when asked about his daughter's death,
her father claimed that she had been attacked
by three dead spirits.
After her burial, she was found alive find months to the day
at a local marketplace in a nearby town.
It was her own father who found her,
shocked and filled with joy as he had buried her
with his own hands.
What happened to Eunide remains unclear.
When she returned, she was found to have several injuries,
her face scarred and her speech slurred in incoherence.
It's possible that she was the victim
of a secret zombie practice using drugs but nobody knows.
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And number one are the Bioquark Experiments.
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No list of real zombie cases would be complete
without some scientists trying to reanimate the dead.
This is exactly what U.S. biotech company,
Bioquark was trying to do.
They're currently running trials on patients
who have been declared dead.
Although their bodies
are being kept by life support systems,
they have no brain function
and as soon as machines are switched off,
they'll stop breathing.
Bioquark is injecting stem cells into brain areas
to try to rejuvenate and bring patients back from the dead.
Previous experiments by the ReAnima Project in Europe
have partially reanimated the brain,
but Doctor Ira Pastor at Bioquark
believes their test could be the first
to bring the dead patients back to life.
That's right.
Experiments on bodies are happening right now
to make zombies a real thing in this world.
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