Comments on: Zombie thought to really be dead http://boingboing.net/2007/10/31/zombie-thought-to-re.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Big Blue Monkey http://boingboing.net/2007/10/31/zombie-thought-to-re.html#comment-72454 Big Blue Monkey Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-72454 This has perhaps been covered somewhere else in the history of Boing Boing, but I saw a piece on PBS last night about a man who appeared to be a real life zombie. Fun moment from the PBS special: They had the documents at the hospital where the zombie Clairvius checked in. They said, "patient complains of being a zombie. Also, check for hernia." Zombie-Hernias got to hurt. Here's Time Magazine on the event: "On a brilliant day in the spring of 1980, a stranger arrived at L'Estère marketplace in Haiti's fertile Artibonite Valley. The man's gait was heavy, his eyes vacant. The peasants watched fearfully as he approached a local woman named Angelina Narcisse. She listened as he introduced himself, then screamed in horror—and recognition. The man had given the boyhood nickname of her deceased brother Clairvius Narcisse, a name that was known only to family members and had not been used since his funeral in 1962." link: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952208-1,00.html This has perhaps been covered somewhere else in the history of Boing Boing, but I saw a piece on PBS last night about a man who appeared to be a real life zombie. Fun moment from the PBS special: They had the documents at the hospital where the zombie Clairvius checked in. They said, “patient complains of being a zombie. Also, check for hernia.”

Zombie-Hernias got to hurt.

Here’s Time Magazine on the event:

“On a brilliant day in the spring of 1980, a stranger arrived at L’Estère marketplace in Haiti’s fertile Artibonite Valley. The man’s gait was heavy, his eyes vacant. The peasants watched fearfully as he approached a local woman named Angelina Narcisse. She listened as he introduced himself, then screamed in horror—and recognition. The man had given the boyhood nickname of her deceased brother Clairvius Narcisse, a name that was known only to family members and had not been used since his funeral in 1962.”

link: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952208-1,00.html

]]> By: Fnarf http://boingboing.net/2007/10/31/zombie-thought-to-re.html#comment-72208 Fnarf Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-72208 I'm wondering what would happen in the opposite situation -- Halloween reveler has heart attack on train and actually dies, in a city where Halloween costumes are common. How long before they discover him? What are the reactions when they find out the cartoon-dead-looking guy really is dead? I’m wondering what would happen in the opposite situation — Halloween reveler has heart attack on train and actually dies, in a city where Halloween costumes are common. How long before they discover him? What are the reactions when they find out the cartoon-dead-looking guy really is dead?

]]> By: raisedbywolves http://boingboing.net/2007/10/31/zombie-thought-to-re.html#comment-73593 raisedbywolves Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-73593 hah! That's hilarious. And yep, Halloween costumes are sadly not yet a normal sight here in Hamburg. But we're working on it. hah! That’s hilarious.

And yep, Halloween costumes are sadly not yet a normal sight here in Hamburg. But we’re working on it.

]]> By: xopl http://boingboing.net/2007/10/31/zombie-thought-to-re.html#comment-72323 xopl Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-72323 FNARF... there were two girls laying "dead" on the floor in the Mall of America as a psychology experiement. Not sure when/if they'll publish, but plenty of people stopped to check on them. I realise it wasn't exactly in a Halloween setting. Also, funny enough, I was sitting on my friend's porch after the Minneapolis Zombie Pub Crawl covered in fake blood. The landlord comes out, sees me, asks if I'm ok... says he doesn't believe me when I say I'm fine and waiting for my friend. It didn't even occur to me that somebody unaware of the Zombie Pub Crawl mind fight a blood soaked person a bit odd. Still... he never called the cops. FNARF… there were two girls laying “dead” on the floor in the Mall of America as a psychology experiement. Not sure when/if they’ll publish, but plenty of people stopped to check on them. I realise it wasn’t exactly in a Halloween setting.

Also, funny enough, I was sitting on my friend’s porch after the Minneapolis Zombie Pub Crawl covered in fake blood. The landlord comes out, sees me, asks if I’m ok… says he doesn’t believe me when I say I’m fine and waiting for my friend. It didn’t even occur to me that somebody unaware of the Zombie Pub Crawl mind fight a blood soaked person a bit odd. Still… he never called the cops.

]]> By: May http://boingboing.net/2007/10/31/zombie-thought-to-re.html#comment-72143 May Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-72143 he plays dead, it stops the train. ha ha. he plays dead, it stops the train. ha ha.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/10/31/zombie-thought-to-re.html#comment-72693 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-72693 The better story is when he gets buried alive and digs out of the grave to seek vengeance on those who left him for dead. The better story is when he gets buried alive and digs out of the grave to seek vengeance on those who left him for dead.

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