But no zombies ever terrified more television viewers than those on The Walking Dead. Not surprisingly, television jumped on the zombie bandwagon with shows like iZombie and Helix. And the 2013 release of World War Z starring Brad Pitt brought zombie culture to a disturbing new level. Even Scooby Doo battled zombies in the 1998 film Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. As special effects technology improved with each film, the zombies appeared more gruesome and realistic.įrom the 1980s on, dozens of zombie films were made. Over the next 15 years, Romero directed two more zombie films, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead. They arrived on the film scene around the same time as their monster peers, Frankenstein and Dracula, with the 1932 release of White Zombie.īut 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. After he slipped into a coma, Narcisse was declared dead was buried shortly thereafter.Īccording 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. In another well-documented case, a Haitian man named Clairvius Narcisse entered a local hospital with severe respiratory problems in 1962. An investigation revealed that her tomb was filled with stones, and her parents agreed to admit her to a local hospital. In one case, a Haitian woman who appeared to be dead was buried in a family tomb, only to reappear three years later. 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.Ī 1997 article in the British medical journal The Lancet described three verifiable accounts of zombies. Real Zombies Reported in Medical Journals This could cause someone to appear dead and be buried alive – then later revived. High doses of tetrodotoxin can lead to paralysis and coma. Used carefully at sub-lethal doses, the tetrodotoxin combination may cause zombie-like symptoms such as difficulty walking, mental confusion and respiratory problems.
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