The True Origin of Zombies

Everyone thinks zombies came from movies— the walking dead attacking the living.

But the truth is much older… and far more terrifying. The real origin of the zombie

comes from the island of Haiti, from a belief system known as Vodou. And in Vodou,

a zombie isn’t a monster. It’s a person. A person whose soul has been stolen.

In Haitian tradition, there are powerful sorcerers known as bokors— dark practitioners

believed to control spirits and bend the dead to their will. According to legend,

a bokor could poison someone, make their heartbeat slow to almost nothing, and bury them alive.

Days later… the “dead” person would be dug up again, confused,