A past Bishop of Liberia gives us an eye-witness account of a restless corpse determined to find her murderer.
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Chris Woodyard
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September 26, 2015
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Witches
and tagged A Corpse in a Terrible Frenzy , African missionary , African witchcraft , Bishop John Payne , Cape Palmas , Liberia , reanimated corpses , Sede , walking dead , zombies
Fearing the Walking Dead: Zombies and Draugr There is something horrifyingly fascinating about accounts of the dead who stubbornly refuse to lie down quietly, but continue to walk as they did in life. They may be called revenants, or vampires, draugr, ghouls, or the Undead. They scare us.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 24, 2013
in Body Snatching , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , vampires , Victorian
and tagged draugr , Fearing the Walking Dead: Zombies and Draugr , Malden Massachusetts , reanimated corpses , revenants , walking corpse , walking dead , zombies
The Corpse Sat Up: Fearing the Dead The dead are dead. They cannot hurt us. (We hope.) So why are we so afraid of a corpse?
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Chris Woodyard
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October 17, 2013
in Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , vampires , Victorian
and tagged corpses , fear of death , lykewake , reanimated corpses , The Corpse Sat Up: Fearing the Dead , waking the dead , walking dead , watching the dead , zombies
