Do zombies exist? Has there ever been an actual report of Zombies attacking someone or something?

This topic has been covered smany times before. Do a search and you should be able to find more info on it.

In a nutshell, it depends on your definition of a zombie.

A person who has been drugged, or partially mentally incapacitated, and used as a slave?? Yes

A person that was actually brought back from the dead, whether through religious or chemical means, and are hear to gnaw on your noggin?? No

Few people think zombies actually exist. But many hold they are at least conceivable, and some that they are ‘logically’ or ‘metaphysically’ possible. It is argued that if zombies are so much as a bare possibility, then physicalism is false and some kind of dualism must be accepted. For many philosophers that is the chief importance of the zombie idea. But the idea is also of interest for its presuppositions about the nature of consciousness and how the physical and the phenomenal are related. Use of the zombie idea against physicalism also raises more general questions about relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility. Finally, zombies raise epistemological difficulties: they reinstate the ‘other minds’ problem.

I have never heard of any zombie reports, except in some video games. It really does depend on you're definition. If you're thinking of the mutated, bloody, bodies wondering around and screeching "Braaaainss...oooooh...braaaains." Well, I doubt those exist. Hopefully that's not the thing living in my basement....

Well, there's this, and then there's this.

Yes, the voodoo is a rather good example. But, when the people come back they are alive breathing
with a heart beat. So, technically they are not zombies.

As far as a virus or parasite goes infecting the body, and brain causing raging zombie like effects,
could very well be possible. But, no cases of this happening yet, as far as I know.

NO. Not in the sense that something could revitalize dead tissue.
Use the search function. There have been very many threads on this.

Watch the movie The Serpent and the Rainbow.

It was based upon a true event in Cambodia I believe? I may have the wrong country. But such experiments did take place somewhere. There was a book and movie based on this legend. That a witch doctor had medicine that could bring back people to life.

If you do a google search on it you'll find a few articles about it. But yes, this has been covered thousands of times... LOL

ahh, zombies. the name is derived from ancient texts and roughly translated means 'me on a monday weekday morning'

Whether zombies exist or not, they don't "attack" people. The worst damage a "real" zombie could do to you would be to accidentally step on your foot and then fail to apologize.

In his best-seller of the 1920s, THE MAGIC ISLAND, William Seabrook claimed to have seen Haitian zombies in the flesh.

And a decade later the famous Afro-American anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston photographed (up close) a Haitian woman both she and others believed to be a zombie.

But we are talking field-slaves here, NOT "attackers."

Though that is generally explained now by the poison tetradotoxin.

Yes, namely associated with the puffer fish.

Yep, but if you are in Australia, it is also found in the blue ringed octopus.

The idea of the undead flesh eating Zombie arose in the late fifties and sixties with low budget movies that had taken more from the book I Am Legend and ancient stories of vampires then from the "Real" zombies as they are represented in movies are more an amalgamation of several sources. If i remember my horror history right it was George Romero who stated quite plainly he'd gotten his idea of shambling people attacking other people from I Am Legend...the very old version i believe. As far as my movie facts go most of them are from a bunch of interviews i watched some time back so feel free to correct me. But basically if you mean that kind of zombie then i'm gonna go with no. But if you're referring to the idea of people drugged or in some manor put into a very suggestive state and made basically into from all reports mindless slaves then yes they've been considered real.

I Am Legend is the second (at least) remake. The first was 1964's The Last Man On Earth, with Vincent Price. Then came 1971's Omega Man, with Charlton Heston.

You're correct, in that George Romero is most likely the source for the modern evolution of the picture of the flesh-eating, reanimated corpse-turned-zombie.

1978's Dawn of the Dead is a masterpiece!

I think the closest thing to Zombies that can actually exist would be something like that on the movie "serpent and the rainbow-" Brain eating dead walking the earth to feed its' nasty crave is just .... movies.

...either way im prepared
*holds up Zombie Survival Guide*

I think that some of the witchdoctors in.. Haiti... have reported zombies...

No. They don't exist.

But there was two reports somewhere in Africa. Where two people came back to life shortly after being buried. Something happened but they acted like they were "fine." Of course these two people died & the reports never happened again.

Yep, very similar to the movie I mentioned earlier.. The serpent and the rainbow. Some powder is blown into the face of someone and they go into a dead like state (the heart rate is slow it's recorded as stopped)..They're buried, it's assumed they are dead, then if they're lucky dig themselves up- Once this powder substance has worn off some what. They can't talk, and act similar to "ZOMBIES" until it's officially out of their system.

The last movie depicting the zombie phenomena from a realistic point of view would be "The Serpent And The Rainbow" directed by Wes Craven released in 1988 starring Bill Pullman (Lone Star from Space Balls). This movie is based on a non fictional book by a ethnobotanist Wade Davis. Who actually hated the movie. In the book Davis explores the mystery of the zombie phenomena in Haiti and discovers (or claims to have discovered) that the un dead were drugged with a neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin, which is harvested from the Puffer fish to make a zombie powder. The affects of which wear off in time unless a dose is administered repeatedly to sustain the zombie like effect.
Good luck and take care
New England Oddities.

Its a good job I have a Zombie attack plan