Informative Essay On Zombies

Zombies The thought of your loved ones coming back from the dead is horrific. Though, people generally see zombies in multiple sources of media such as movies, television shows, and comics every day. The idea of the walking undead corpses was brought on by Haitian folklore from the early 1900’s. The term’s meaning is based off of a fictional undead being created through the animation of a human corpse. Although the idea of “zombies” sounds completely insane and irrational, there are multiple theories that have been tested and confirmed to make the idea actually possible. Shows and movies such as AMC’s The Walking Dead and World War Z have made the “zombie” as a more modern stereotypical monster. They always have rotting flesh hanging off of their bodies and have less of a human appearance. Though, in the mid 1900’s movie “Night of the Living Dead”, zombies looked more …show more content…
The idea was that witch doctors rose bodies from the grave to do their bidding. However, the people weren’t actually dead, but drugged to appear to dead and hypnotized. Because this is actually possible, people in Haiti find the idea of zombies very real and terrifying. In the 1980’s a man was found after being gone for twenty years, stating that he was a “zombie slave” for the last two decades. He could never remember where he had worked, so the story was never able to be verified. Now, people may ask themselves, “Could there really be a zombie apocalypse?” According to Viralnova, there are ten natural ways that could actually make it possible. One of the many possibilities is called Neurogenesis. Neurogenesis makes is possible for humans to regenerate decaying organs. The outside of the brain is the person’s thoughts and feelings while the inside is where the brain keeps us alive and breathing. So in a hypothetical situation, it is technically possible to become a mindless human who could walk (aka a