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As you know(if you have read my introduction) I love Zombie movies, games all that stuff.
But I have a serious question...


Being so infatuated with this subject I have slightly driven myself to the brink of insanity pondering on whether or not zombies can really exist.
I have read things talking about actual sightings and skirmishes against live zombies that is all hidden by the government...

I am wondering...
Is it possible for the human race to be capable of being either
A.genetically altered to become brainless primitive beings that have cannibalistic tendencies?
or...
B.is there some other "supernatural"/scientific way that humans can just out of the blue mutate into these things?

I am asking for any scientific proof of a zombie existence. Please help me.

ok I saw something about this on the Discovery Channel I think...In voodoo they believe in zombies. Basically the "victim" is givin some sort of herb or potion that makes them become unable to remember the past, recognize loved ones and are under the control of the "zombie master"More

I see...

Well I have heard about occurrences where somewhere on the east coast a zombie washed up on shore and had to be neutralized by local law enforcement. Now the people there have booths set up selling t-shirts depicting a "real" photograph of the abomination.They operantly have many novelty items for sale.. lol

I have seen, read, and heard about so many things giving moderately believable evidence that they have already existed and are being covered up by the government. That they will spawn from hell(A.K.A. Biblical beliefs). And that they are literally walking around in rural ares constantly beings destroyed as to cover up the existance.

It's crazy if it's possible for these things to be actually be able to be created.

Again I agree with Kitten.

I too saw the documentary on the Discovery Channel. As for facts. Can you imagine someone digging their way out of a grave and starting to eat peoples brains? I love those Dawn of the Dead movies! "Give me a target!" "Rosie O'Donell" "Come on, way too easy! Give me something harder to find!" lol

The brain is completely uncapable of sending signals and activating or firing up the neurons. Muscles become atrophiated meaning they're weak and can't be used. Besides, eating human brains will give you a disease like Mad Cow disease!!!

I'm sure a person can become a "zombie" in the sense of a mindless drone under drug influence or something, but as far as an undead, definately no. Corpses cannot be reanimated. Well, at least not to the point of funcuality. I assume they can be jump-started so to speak to prod the nerves into causing muscle spasms, but that's it. Hmmm... I wonder if you could implant A.I. into a machine in a corpse and have it send jolts to move the body around until it decomposes. But who would do something as pointless and sick as that?

I think the person would just die by not even being capable of movement. Important things other than memory take place in the frontal lobes. Yes there are people alive who only have half a brain (literally). Taking away the hypothalamus would be almost impossible due to its location. Plus, we need the stuff that's produced there as well.

To make a cannibal just make the person have a period of fasting followed by starvation then introduce him to human meat. Hunger drives people to take drastic measures. In addition, like Fanto stated, give the person close to a drug overdose but not a high dose sufficient enough to kill him.

I agree with Fanto in the machine that sends electrical impulses to the brain while attaching machines that provide for body functions such as pumping blood.

well thats nice!

Agree with the above.
Dead bodies actually make sounds if you turn them on the their sides. The liquid that collected at the bottom of the lungs cause it to make a sound kind of like "aahhhhhh"...
So zombies can existing as in brain damage/ hypnotize people walking around, but not as in dead bodies raised from the grave...
I read a newspaper article on how there was this person who was dead in a coffin, kept on growing nails and hair, but that was explained by how the coffin was not shut all the way and how the muscles shrink after death making nails appear longer... I can't remember the rest... it was years ago..
This is like if you believe vampires exist, which they don't, and everything about it can be explain by science. I read a book on it and it explained everything about it.