{"id":225834,"date":"2021-10-29T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=225834"},"modified":"2025-02-16T22:29:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T22:29:51","slug":"zombie-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/zombie-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Gruesome Facts About Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"
Zombies are fascinating creatures that both scare the life out of us and keep us curious.\n
Our curiosity about the walking dead has evolved over the decades and is hugely influenced popular culture.\n
But who came up with the concept of zombies, and could they really exist?\n
Here are 13 gruesome facts about zombies that you should know.\n
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The fear of the undead has been around for hundreds of years and is evident in many forms.\n
One of the first civilizations thought to fear zombies was the Ancient Greeks.\n
This is seen through their burials, and archeologists have found evidence in Ancient Greek graves.\n
Rocks or weighty objects pinned down many of the skeletons found in these graves. It’s thought that this was to stop the dead from rising.\n
So it’s generally believed that the Ancient Greeks were some of the first to fear the dead rising.\n
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For all the zombie fanatics, there’s World Zombie Day!\n This international event started on October 13, 2006, when a group of enthusiasts created a zombie walk in Pittsburg, California, where Dawn of the Dead was filmed.\n The event has become celebrated worldwide and is often held on the weekend closest to October 13.\n Although there has not yet been a zombie apocalypse, people have ideas of how to kill a zombie.\n Based on fiction, theories, and stories created by zombie enthusiasts, it’s thought that there is only one way to kill a zombie.\n You’ve probably heard already, but you must destroy its brain.\n A zombie can survive any form of attack or damage to its body except for its brain.\n The best way to kill a zombie is to behead it or destroy the brain in any way possible.\n This will stop control of the body, and consequently, it will die.\n White Zombie was one of the first zombie horror films to be produced.\n The story showed a woman poisoned by her lover and brought back from the dead to become a zombie.\n It was based on the novel “The Magic Island” written by William Seabrook.\n Throughout Haitian culture, it has been common for voodoo shamans to turn the dead into zombies.\n It was thought there were two parts of the soul, one that controls bodily functions and another that controls emotions.\n By removing these, you are left with a lifeless human who can be used as a slave.\n If you were the keeper of their spirit or soul, then you controlled the zombie.\n It is said that using a special concoction or poison can do this to a person, and the act of turning someone into a zombie in Haiti is now illegal.\n Article 249 prohibits this and will prosecute anyone caught turning someone into a zombie with murder.\n In 2009 the British zombie movie “Colin” was shown and won an award at the renowned Cannes Film Festival.\n Writer and director Marc Price spent 18 months putting together the $70 budget movie that followed a zombie’s life in London.\n The fascination with zombies has become a worldwide phenomenon thanks to their representation in popular culture.\n Zombie movies, zombie walks, zombie apocalypses, and real-life enactments are just some of the ways zombophiles spend their days.\nThere is only one way to talk out a zombie.\n
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The first American zombie film was released in 1932.\n
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In Haiti, there is a law making it illegal to turn someone into a zombie.\n
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A $70 zombie movie won an award at Cannes Film Festival.\n
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Zombie fans are called Zombophiles.\n
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was not a zombie.\n
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