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Top 5 Real-Life Zombie Facts


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get out the shotgun or your trusty
baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire
because these zombies are flesh and
blood easy peasy lemon squeezy
welcome to watchmojo.com Stallman we’re
counting down the top 5 facts about
real-life zombies oh boy zombie
apocalypse from reanimated corpses to
mindless drones serving at the will of
others we’re exploring various examples
of zombie-ism in our real world that
make the science fiction scenario of a
zombie apocalypse uncomfortably
plausible hey I dunno don’t you get man
number 5 the US government has a plan
for a zombie apocalypse Wow six hours on
the dot and well practice makes perfect
they’ve dismissed it as a simple
training exercise but the US government
is in possession of a detailed zombie
apocalypse contingency plan it outlines
response strategies to a variety of
zombie Oh breaks portrayed in popular
culture ranging from the standard
pathogenic zombies to extraterrestrial
space zombies or magic zombies of occult
origins the plan titled con plan 8888
coordinates multiple branches of the
military the Pentagon essentials for
Disease Control and Prevention and more
it all sounds very silly but with the
recent surge in possibly drug-induced
face-eating cannibal attacks it seems
prudent of them to be prepared a naked
man he was shot dead on Saturday by
police because he was knowing off
another man’s face and how better to
keep the public from worrying than
dismissing the contingency plan as a
joke when the dead rise the government
is ready but are you some people’s
epiphany is when they realize that the
guy that lives on their block with all
the guns and ammo isn’t crazy number
four bio quark bringing zombies to a
hospital near you somewhere deep
underground in a secret facility evil
bio technicians tinker with the stolen
corpses of your loved ones with one
sinister goal in mind to raise an army
of the dead okay so they’re not mad
scientists and they’re based in
Philadelphia but by Oh quark biotech is
experimenting with reanimating the dead
and despite the fact that they’re doing
it with the goal of helping coma
patients curing disabilities or even
reversing degenerative diseases they’ve
received a lot of criticism for moral
scientific and religious reasons the
appropriately titled reanima project
involves stem cells spinal fluid
transfers and nerve stimulation applied
to brain-dead patients why are we not
funding this we’ve been inundated with
emails from members of the public
begging them to stop before they
accidentally set off a zombie apocalypse
number three wasps are already creating
zombies this should guarantee that
you’ll never complain about a simple
wasp sting again various species of wasp
actually take control of the minds of
other insects turning them into zombie
slaves the Costa Rican parasite wasp
injects spiders with a chemical that
makes them build a specific web to
support and protect the larvas cocoon
with the spiders own body acting as the
central support and ultimately a meal
the jewel wasp performs brain surgery
with its stinger on cockroaches to make
them into lobotomized living incubators
for their young the wasp twists its body
around the roach so it can sting into
its brain and inject the Zomba fiying
mixture the GLIP tappan talese wasp lays
its young inside a caterpillar and after
the larvae rip through its skin the
caterpillar is chemically compelled to
protect their cocoons until it starves
to death just be thankful they haven’t
learned to target humans yet number two
fungal zombie-ism is especially
terrifying if there’s one form of
zombie-ism you should worry about
it’s the fungal variety because from a
scientific perspective it’s
theoretically possible it’s infected
brain directs this ant upwards
you wouldn’t start eating brains but a
fungal infection of the brain could take
control of your motor system in the
tropical forests of Thailand and the
rainforests of Brazil
one terrifying fungus sense pours out
into the air which works their way into
the bodies of ants there the fungus
begins to grow spreading chemicals to
the brain which take over the motor
system directing the ant to a suitable
place to sprout only once the ant
reaches this location does the spore
finally kill it it then uses the ants
corpse as a macabre flowerpot to restart
the cycle the fungus is so virulent it
can wipe out whole colonies of ants
number one there have been cases of
voodoo and chemically induced zombie-ism
fungus might be the future of zombie-ism
but zombie human history lies in voodoo
some call it magic others call it
drug-induced slavery
either way it’s a nightmarish concept in
the early 20th century US Marines
returned from Haiti with horror stories
of voodoo practitioners raising the dead
they’ve been credited with bringing
zombie culture to America so what did
they actually see it’s believed that
voodoo priests use powerful poisons like
Bufo toxin to make a victim appear dead
the victim would be buried then the
priest would exhume the body and keep
the victim in a drug-induced stupor to
perform hard labor this was the case
with supposed former zombie clairvius
narcisse who in 1980 returned home 18
years after his own funeral when his
master finally died and the controlling
substances wore off chilly so are you
gonna be putting together a zombie
survival kit of your own just in case
and do you believe the government zombie
contingency plan was really just an
exercise for more stupor inducing
toptenz and macabre flower pot top fives
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that sure wasn’t much of a zombie
apocalypse yeah that’s suck
you
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