MYS159: Zombies have become a staple of pop culture, but as Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss, they are a real and recognized phenomenon in the nation of Haiti. What are these zombies, what causes them, and are they really the dead brought back to life?
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Links for this episode:

* Wade Davis’s book Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
* Wade Davis’s book The Serpent and the Rainbow
* Garth Haslam’s book Zombies: History, Belief, and Modern Ideas
* Zombie
* Revenant
* Haiti
* Haitian Vodou
* Lancet article (paywall)
* Uncanny Valley
* Premature burial
* White Zombie (1932)
* BBC short video
* National Geographic short video
* Interview with a Zombie (Wilfrid Dorissant documentary)

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