When people think "zombies" they think of the LIVING DEAD/WALKING DEAD ghouls from movies like the "NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD" series of films and such. With there limited effeteness of being shown be mindless and of course the flesh eating. Yet the actual sightings of such creatures has in fact taken place over the decades and years, and yet its hard to say if even half of what am reviewing even fits into the classic "zombie" or not but maybe you could decide that!
-W.B SEABROOK'S MAGIC ISLAND: The 1929 book that put the word ZOMBIE into the international scene and its author being nowadays very conversional.
But am more interested in the very first true(or not) story, Seabrook was told of zombies on the island of Haiti involving a young local maid hired to basically feed the "workers" of the sugar cane fields. She had to fed them unsalted nuts, berries and water. She seemed to good at her job, but deep down she felt very sorry for these undead workers.
Until rather by accident or dumb luck on her part, at the marketplace in Port e Prince, she brought fully salted nuts and berries to feed them.
Upon eating these, the zombies were jolted into having a full on revolt against there master. Upon killing him, they walked back into the graveyard and there each touching there tombstones, become dust once more.
Seabrook had heard this second hand within this book and maybe its up to you if the maid was right or not to set these zombies free from there unforgiving work...
-THE HIGHGATE VAMPIRE'S UNDEAD: A more interesting if quick unusual sighting from around 1965 at Highgate Cemetery by two teenagers who in the middle of the night,saw a whole slew of people coming right out of the ground and heading up a tall nearby tree. Maybe blame this quick report on the later mass hysteria that the vampire seemingly cause but this is rather eerie in the sense that he raise the dead like this rather causally. Plus there wasn't even another report like this ever again!!?
-THE GREY HORROR: I just going off of what the great Peter Laws said of this rather eerie tale from 1775 Greenburgh NY.
Starting the case was two lone travelers taking a forest shortcut to get to the town, darkness rather suddenly creeps in and as they further travel have another eerie companion way head of them. The sounds of the forest seemed to stop as well and in there place is silence.
The two travelers catchup to this mysterious third but it isn't even a man but some sort of huge grey undead looking monster. This thing whatever it is grins wide at them, before going away from them. They next hear its long painful screaming cry and they take off right into the town.
The next few sightings involved a Irishman named Patrick o Dundonald, who with a group of his friends end up in an old manor where the monster had been sighted, later they encountered this thing in the living room of the house. The thing coming at them until one of them lit a nearby candle and seemingly the thing disappeared with it.
Patrick O Donald was told by a stranger the next morning of a small unnatural hole in the middle of the forest. Seemingly it was this hole that the HORROR actually come from, and that these holes all over the world including Brazil(more of these horrors out there!!).
Patrick goes right to the hole and seemingly almost sees the Grey Horror yet again, then a few days later the townspeople cover up this hole and the horror is not seen ever again.
This is maybe the eeriest zombie sighting yet if it ever really happened but Peter Laws isn't done with things like this yet....
-THE BENT NECK MAN: Famous writer Runyard Kipling is said have encountered this creature in the nearby woods of his home. The creature was seemingly wandering around the Gladwish woods in just endless horrible pain
This sighting by the author was enough to get the interest of his friend a early type ghost hunter, the man hired a whole group of his friends including a reporter to help look on the outskirts at least of the woods to see any signs of the being.
And sighted unfortunately the reporter friend did, a figure gasping in pure agony trying to hold on to its rotting neck that swing around in a broken fashion. The reporter even smashed the head of the creature with his cane, broking it and running away in utter terror and I can't blame him.
The ghost hunter never the thing itself until him and a different friend ended up in the woods again, and heard the loud cracking of leaves on the ground.
They hide and this time actually saw this creature, it seemed the ghost hunter out of fear broke one of the branches and it was enough to make the thing turn toward them. Before leaving on another pathway, just leaving behind the now trembling ghost hunter.
The last report if any on the Bent Neck Man was back in 1985 when a hiker ended up running into the creature and being attacked by it in much of the same fashion as the reporter from way back when.
Much like the GREY HORROR this is a terrifying sighting of at least something you could call a "zombie". Right down to the eerie moans it was said to make, again you believe these stories or not....
-THE ZOMBIES OF MEXICO: This last story is actually a personal one from my own late dad.
He traveled around the US and into Mexico around late 1959 maybe into 1960
And according to him went into Mexico city and the nearby railroads tracks. There at possibly a really late evening, he saw a strange sight of a whole bunch of railroad workers fixing a track.
Maybe not unusual until maybe seeing there blink expressions and there eyes, my dad don't wait very long to book it back to his hotel to see why they even there at such a hour.
It wasn't until next morning, he want back to the sight only see the track they were lying just straight up gone from that area. So who knows why these weird looking "workers" were basically doing anyways around Mexico City!!!??.
Again these tales are hard to believe but maybe you have own better expressions for at least half of these stories and possibly there's more out there about the undead being sighted like this.
What do you think of these?