It didn't even seep into my memory. I missed my best friend. Daryl, My Best Friend. Dr Karl S. Kruszelnicki tackles some of the curiosities and myths of everyday life. The legend of the zombies comes from the Caribbean island of Haiti.
Zombies can move, eat, hear and speak, but have no memory and no insight into their condition.
There have been tales of zombies for centuries, but it was only in 1980 that a legitimate case was documented. In 1962, in Haiti, a man called Clairvius Narcisse was sold to a zombie master by his brothers after refusing to sell his share of the family land. He was actually working as a zombie slave on a sugar plantation with many other zombies. In 1964, his zombie master died, and he wandered across the island in a psychotic daze for the next 16 years. In 1980, he came across his long-lost sister in a market place and identified himself to her by telling her childhood experiences that only he could know.