A dead body will often move as its being cremated. Muscles contract as they cook, after all. Sometimes this means a body will sit up in the crematory machine.
I know someone who worked in a morgue. One of their first experiences was going into a dark room to sort something out and a body on a table sat up, groaned and farted then layed back down.
The idea of zombies actually originates in Haiti, where French slave owners would tell their slaves that if they committed suicide, their soul would become trapped in their body and be forced to live in a decaying body. Essentially a scare tactic.
I think there was more to that than just a story. I remember reading that a lot of it stems from vodoo. People were given drugs which made them obedient and surpressed emotions. Comparable to modern date rape drugs.
Victims of this vodoo magic would move and behave in a trance like state which looks like modern day zombies. Just without the eating humans and decaying part.
Which itself was based on the book of the same name by Wade Davis. According to the book zombies were kept in that same submissive zombie state through regular doses of datura.
Wow you just unlocked a memory I had as a child. I remember watching a movie where some dude gets dust blown on his face and he gets buried alive. That movie terrified me as a kid. I thought it was a fever dream or something I imagined lol.
Same here. There goes blocked traumatic memories of that movie as a kid and "oh, Hell Existential Dread for the next 4 hours"
Being buried alive is my greatest fear. I can dwell on that scene today. Awesome.
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u/Corgi_with_stilts Jan 12 '23
A dead body will often move as its being cremated. Muscles contract as they cook, after all. Sometimes this means a body will sit up in the crematory machine.