But be ready for a fight, and be ready to do whatever it takes to defend yourself even if that means using lethal force as a means of self-preservation. You can’t talk people down in these situations, so your only hope is to subdue them before they attack. What’s worse is that they might be hallucinating, in which case they might perceive you as the threat, which means you are the target. Not only do the drugs take away their fear and inhibitions while giving them enhanced strength, but their ability to think is also gone. The problem with people who are on drugs is that there is no reasoning with them. There are also several stories of people who have been high on drugs who start eating the faces of the people they attack. Another instance was the man in Dallas who stripped naked and jumped head-first into the sunroof of a passing car and started attacking the female driver. Some of the more well known zombie attack stories include the man who was high on synthetic pot who attacked his neighbors and ate their dog while the poor creature was still alive. There are stories all over the internet of “zombie attacks” that see people high on drugs who either exhibit superhuman strength or abilities or who do unspeakable things as a result of the drugs. Zombie behavior is a side effect of bad drug trips and super strains of meth and other drugs that fall into the “uppers” category. There are also stories of people experimenting with drugs for the first time and having horrible reactions that land them in all kinds of trouble. It’s no secret that drugs are bad for you, but sometimes impurities in drugs can cause erratic behavior beyond the drug’s expected side effects. While studying the phenomenon, he discovered a powder used by Voodoo practitioners that he believes is responsible for some of the cases.Ī powder? That sounds like something we are seeing here in the United States! Bath Salts and Bad Drug Trips Though convinced zombies were real, he had been unable to find a scientific explanation for the phenomenon.Īnthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis Ph.D, has spent years investigating a possible scientific explanation for the alleged existence of zombies in Haiti. Lamarque Douyon, a Haitian-born, Canadian-trained psychiatrist, has been systematically investigating all reports of zombies since 1961.
AT THE Centre de Psychiatric et Neurologie in Port au-Prince, Dr. In the same year, in northern Haiti, the local peasants claimed to have found a group of zombies wandering aimlessly in the fields. Rumors of people rising from the grave, and actual medical records of it happening in Haiti, have intrigued people for years.Īccording to Harvard Magazine, in 1980, two women turned up in other villages saying they were zombies. Haitian zombiesĪs crazy as it sounds, there are documented medical cases that suggest some sort of zombification in humans in Haiti. It’s for this reason that people need to be prepared for just about anything. Incidentally, because Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease can be contracted through a contaminated food supply, imagine how easily it could be weaponized with the introduction of contaminants into the food chain. Whether they’re walking down the street or driving a car if someone isn’t able to process decisions it could spell disaster for innocent bystanders. The parasitic fungus can manipulate the brains of ants, turning them into mindless zombies that obey and work for the fungus.Ĭonfusion could cause someone to step on the gas instead of the break, or hallucinations could lead someone to start attacking people around them.
In fact, in the animal kingdom we can find a real-life example in tropical countries like Brazil.Ĭarpenter ants in these environments can become infected with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, the zombie-ant fungus. Mind controlled zombies infected with some sort of zombie-virus don’t just live in the world of science fiction. Zombie Ants: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis - the zombie-ant fungus In nature, we see multiple animals, insects, bacteria and Fungi that not only act like zombies but can turn their hosts into zombies. There are actually numerous real-world examples that closely parallel what we see in zombie books and movies. Are Zombies Real?īefore we jump into why we believe we may be in the midst of a modern-day zombie apocalypse, lets look at real examples of zombies in nature. Since not much is known about what happens to us when we die, the idea that corpses could somehow be reanimated is something that has always captured people’s imaginations.
Of all the horror tropes, zombies might be the most accessible because the idea of the dead rising from their graves dates back to when early man was living in caves. A look at Real-World Zombies: Separating Fact from Fiction