I once saw a television program on discovery, about real life zombies.
It was something about a man who had poisoned a person with a frog poison. (I think it was a arrow dart frog or what they are called) The poison is able to paralyze a human totally... The heartbeat will go down to almost zero, and the brain activity will be lowered much. And so on.
After the poisoning, the doctors said the person where dead and the person where burried.

The man then dug up the person again (I can't remember after how long) and I can't remember if the poison "ran out of effect" or the man had an antidote or something. But when the poisoned man "woke" up, after having an unusual amount of air to the brain for some time and the heartbeat has been lowered so much, the person would be like a zombie and couldn't really do as much.

Anyone heard about this ? It was a couple of years ago i saw the program.
Anyone else heard of real life zombies ?

-Quane

Try reading 'The Serpent and the Rainbow' by Wade Davies. I think the program was based around a lot of what is in his book. I think there may be a film aswell but the book is better.

tetrodotoxin from a puffer fish administered as a contact poison in a bone dust carrier is the active principle. The bokur exhumes the "corpse" and administers an antidote containing datura inoxica. the hallucinations combined with the near death experience leave the the victim quite suggestable.....

One such account describes a Haitian man that was slipped this Tetrotoxin, and was pronounced dead as a result of his paralysis and inability to speak. When the TTX wore off several days later, the man tried to return home to his family, but was rejected because he was thought to be a walking-dead zombie.

Yes, Haiti is the place to be to witness such thing. My dad was at one of their rituals once when he was with the marines. He says it's one of the scariest things he's ever seen. It included the part with the possesion and the biting the roosters head off.

quoted from the book "Mysteries of the Unexplained"

The repeated reports of zombies, people in a trancelike state working as slaves in the fields of Haiti, gain credence by virtue of the firsthand report by a former victim named Clairvius Narcisse from the village of L'Estere. (His story was also published by the National Enquirer in 1982)

Narcisse who had always been in excellent health, suddenly and inexplicaby took sick in 1962. His sister brought him to the Albert Schweitzer Memorial Hospital in Deschabelle:

"I couldn't get enough air in my lungs (Narcisse said). My heart was running out of strength. My stomach was burning. Then I felt myself freeze up. I hearn the doctor tell my sister, "I'm sorry he is dead." I wanted to cry out, to tell her that I was alive, but I was unable to move."

The doctor examined him, pulled a sheet over his head, and signed a death certificate. Later in the day, friends came to pay their respects, and Narcisse said that although he could see them and hear them, he felt no emotion. At the cemetery he heard the mourners lament and the heard the dirt falling on his coffin. The next thing he remembered he was standing next to the grave in a trancelike state. There were two men who refilled the grave, tied a rope around his wrists and took him to farm where he became a slave working in the fields with about 100 other unfortunate souls.

According to Dr. Lamarque Douyon, directer of the Psychiatric Center in Port-au-Prince, the so-called zombies are people who have been drugged by a voodoo sorcerer, pronounced dead, buried, dug-up, and kept drugged during their enslavement as field workers.

Narcisse thinks that he had been enslaved for about two years when one day the overseer failed to adminster the dose of drugs that kept the victims in their subservient conditions. Some of the zombies regained their faculties, realized the state they were in and killed the overseer. Narcisse did not go back to his native village because he believed that his brother who lived there had made the arrangement to have him drugged by a voodoo sorcerer. But when in January 1980, he heard that his brother had died, he decided to return to L'Estere.
So 18 years after he was thought to be dead and buried, Clairvius Narcisse walked back into the lives of the friends and relatives who had mourned his passing nearly two decades before.

[Edited on 1-7-2004 by worldwatcher]

[Edited on 1-7-2004 by worldwatcher]

Moss, after being dried up, teoretically dies.

But after moisturising it, it miracously comes to life

See what others have said above, about the pufferfish toxin, and Haiti.... Pretty rare these days it would seem, but still practiced in remote areas of that culture...

Well someone had heard about it, cool.
Kinda scary that it is possible to make a complete zombie army, i would like to know if the zombie dudes feel pain.
I don't know what i would think if i saw a person from my family dead, and went to his funeral and then 18 years after he returns. chocking.

Well, if anyone knows any pictures, movies so I would like to see them.

-Quane

Voodoo! Running from my magik!