Random Real Zombie Attacks That Actually Happened (16 items)

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  (#3) Two-Year-Old Sits Up in Coffin, Asks for Water, Dies Again

  Kevin Santos was pronounced dead at a hospital in his hometown of Belem in Brazil. The two-year-old was placed in an airtight body bag for three hours while his family made preparations for his funeral.  

  During the wake, family members noticed the boy moving. Santos then sat up and asked his father for a glass of water. The ecstatic family was let down, however, when only seconds later the boy fell over again. He was rushed to hospital and declared dead a second time.
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  (#12) Three Year-Old Wakes Up at Her Own Funeral

  In July 2014, a three-year-old girl in Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, in the Philippines, was pronounced dead in a hospital after suffering a high fever. She was prepared for burial and placed in a coffin. However, during her own funeral, the girl woke up. She had apparently only been comatose.
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  (#5) Clairvius Narcisse and the Proof of Zombification

  Clairvius Narcisse died on May 2, 1962 after admitting himself to the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelle, a town in the Artibonite Valley of Haiti. He had been suffering from a plethora of ailments, but no direct cause for his symptoms could be determined.  

  Eighteen years later, in 1980, his sister Angelina saw Narcisse in a market place. He recounted the memories of his own "death," including being buried alive. He had been placed into a death-like state by a bokor, or sorcerer, and after being dug up he was whisked away to a plantation to serve as a zombified laborer. He escaped after two years of slavery and wandered the Haitian countryside, only willing to return to his village when his brother, whom he believed to have made the deal with the bokor that turned Narcisse into a zombie, had finally passed away.  

  A researcher named Wade Davis later investigated Narcisse's case, and claimed to have discovered the key to zombification, namely the use of the datura plant, which, according to Patrick D. Hahn of Biology Online, "contains the hallucinogens atropine and scopolamine, and induces delirium, confusion, psychosis, and complete amnesia." It could never be conclusively determined, however, whether or not this substance was actually used on Narcisse. 
  
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  (#7) Zombie Ants

  You read that right - there are zombie ants out there in nature, afflicted by a parasitic fungus that biologically manipulates the insects into doing their bidding. Here's Joseph Castro of Live Science to explain this phenomena:

  "Fungi of the genus Ophiocordyceps - so-called zombie ant fungi - need ants to complete their life cycle. When an ant comes across fungal spores while foraging, the fungus infects the insect and quickly spreads throughout its body. 

  "Fungal cells in the ant's head release chemicals that hijack the insect's central nervous system. The fungus forces the ant to climb up vegetation and clamp down onto a leaf or twig before killing its hapless drone. It then grows a spore-releasing stalk out of the back of the victim's head to infect more ants on the ground below."
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  (#10) Felicia-Felix Mentor Returns Almost 30 Years After Her Death

  Having died in 1907, it was a shock to the village of Ennery in Haiti when, on October 24, 1936, Felicia-Felix Mentor wandered into town, dazed and disheveled. She would alternately refer to herself in first and third person, and at times she would laugh maniacally for no reason.  

  Dr. Louis P. Mars, MD insisted Mentor's reappearance was either a case of mistaken identity or severe schizophrenia, but writer Zora Neale Hurston insisted locals had told her Mentor's state was a result of pharmacological zombification.
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  (#2) The Infamous Miami Cannibal Attack

  This story was big news back in May 2012, especially given the eerie footage of the incident that made the rounds on the Internet. Miami resident Rudy Eugene stripped naked and attacked homeless man Ronald Poppo, eating about 80% of the man's face. When police arrived at the scene, they were forced to open fire on the belligerent Eugene. He took far more bullets than his body should have been able to withstand before finally dropping.  

  It was originally theorized that Eugene had ingested "bath salts" or even PCP, but toxicology reports revealed only trace amounts of marijuana in his system, leaving the explanation for his zombie-like attack on Poppo a mystery.

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