Living Zombies!

Clairvius Narcisse was a Haitian who was turned into a living zombie. As the extremely well documented story goes he checked himself into a hospital complaining of benign symptoms like headaches, a sore throat etc. Within two days he could no longer feel his body, his lips turned blue and he was shivering dramatically. A day later he was pronounced dead by two American educated doctors. 18 years later Clarise found his sister in a market. He claimed that instead of being dead he was actually in some form of a coma and although he was aware of everything happening he couldn't move. He was then dug out of his coffin by a bokor(witch doctor) who proceeded to some how revive the 'deceased' and put him to work at a plantation. Later an investigation showed that the bokor had many zombie slaves who managed to escape after one zombie retaliated from repeated abuse by the bokor. The investigation also revealed that the poison used to 'kill' Clarise was tetrodotoxin(puffer fish venom) and the chemical used to revive him was bufotoxin(toad venom). Although the final conclusion was that he did not technically die the toad venom put him in such a suggestive comatose like state that to the average person he was the very meaning of the word zombie, even though he didn't bite.

courtesy of Virtual Line

By Gio Aboujaoude