60,000 B.C. KATANDA, CENTRAL AFRICA
Recent archaeological expeditions discovered a cave that contained thirteen skulls on the banks of the Upper Semliki River, in Katanda, Central Africa. All had been crushed. Near them was a large pile of fossilized ash. Laboratory analysis determined the ash to be the remains of thirteen Homo sapiens.
On the wall of the cave is a painting of a human figure, hands raised in a threatening posture, eyes fixed in an evil gaze. Inside its gaping mouth is the body of another human. This find has not been accepted as a genuine zombie incident as one school of thought argues that the crushed skulls and burned bodies were a means of ghoul disposal, while the cave drawing serves as a warning.
Other academics demand some type of physical evidence, such as a trace of fossilized Solanum. Results are still pending. If Katanda's authenticity is confirmed, it raises the question of why there was such a large gap between this first outbreak and the one that followed.
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3000 B.C. HIERACONPLIS, EGYPT
A British dig in 1892 unearthed a nondescript tomb, in Hieraconpolis, Egypt. No clues could be found to reveal who the person who occupied it was or anything about his place in society.
The body was found outside the open crypt, curled up in a corner and only partially decomposed. Thousands of scratch marks adorned every surface inside of the tomb, as if the corpse had tried to claw its way out. Forensic experts have revealed that the scratches were made over a period of several years. The body itself had several bite marks on the right radius.
The teeth match those of a human. A full autopsy revealed that the dried, partially decomposed brain not only matched those infected by Solanum (the frontal lobe was completely melted away) but also contained trace elements of the virus itself. Debate now rages as to whether or not this case prompted late Egyptian specialists to remove the brains from their mummies.
An unnamed Macedonian column built by the legendary conqueror Alexander the Great was visited many times by Soviet Special Forces during their own war of occupation. Five miles from the monument, one unit discovered the ancient remains of what is believed to be Hellenic Army barracks. Among other artifacts, there was a small bronze vase.
Its inlaid pictures show:
* (1) one man biting another;
* (2) the victim lying on his deathbed,
* (3) the victim rising up again; and back to
* (1) biting another man.
The circular nature of this vase, as well as the pictures themselves, could be evidence of an undead outbreak either witnessed by Alexander or related to him by one of the local tribes.
212 B.C.
In 212 B.C. China, a stone cave was found with several dead bodies in it. Inside, decomposing human remains were found in such a way that suggested a zombie outbreak.
140 A.D
In 140-41 A.D., Lucious Valerius Strabo, Roman governor of Thamugadi, Numidia (Algeria) recorded six small zombie outbreaks among desert nomads. All the outbreaks were crushed by two cohorts from the III Augusta Legionary base, with a total of 134 dispatched zombies, and the cohorts suffering only 5 Roman casualties. Other than the official report, a private journal entry by an army engineer records a significant discovery:
A local family remained imprisoned in their home for at least twelve days while the savage creatures scratched and clawed fruitlessly at their bolted doors, and windows. After we discovered the filth and rescued the family, their manner looked near insane. From what we could gather, the wails of the beasts, day after day, night after night, proved to be merciless form of torture.
This account is the first known recognition of psychological damage caused by a zombie attack. All six incidents, given their chronological proximity, make a credible case for one or more ghouls from earlier attacks "surviving" long enough to reinfect a population.
156 A.D.
In Castra Regina, Germania around 156 A.D, an attack by seventeen zombies left a prominent cleric infected. The Roman commander that was sent to dispatch the outbreak, recognizing the signs of a newly turned zombie, ordered his troops to destroy the former holy man. The "death" of the zombified cleric enraged the local citizens of the region, and started a riot.
The aftermath of the outbreak and the unfortunate riot left 10 zombies killed, including the holy man, 17 Roman casualties (due to the riot), and the deaths of 198 civilians.
177 A.D.
Around 177 A.D., near what is known as south-western France, a traveling merchant sent a personal letter to his brother about his encounter with a zombie:
"He came from the woods, a man of stinking rot. His gray skin bore many wounds, from which flowed no blood. Upon seeing the screaming child, his body seemed to shake with excitement. His head turn in her direction; his mouth opened in a howling moan... Darius, the old legionary veteran, approached... pushing the terrified mother aside, he grabbed the child with one arm, and brought his gladius around with the other. The creature's head fell to his feet, and rolled downhill before the rest of his body followed... Darius insisted they wear leather coverings as they pitched the body into the fire... the head, still moving in a disgusting bite, was fed to the flames."
This passage should be taken as the typical Roman attitude toward the living dead: no fear, no superstition, just another problem requiring a practical solution. This was the last record of an attack during the Roman Empire. Subsequent outbreaks were neither combated with such efficiency nor recorded with such clarity.
700 A.D.
Although this event appears to have taken place on or around 700 A.D., physical evidence comes in the form of a painting recently discovered in the vaults of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Analysis of the materials themselves fix the date listed above. The picture itself shows a collection of knights in full armor, attacking a mod of ragged men with gray flesh, arrows and other wounds covering their bodies, and blood dripping from their mouths.
As the two forces clash in the center of the frame, the knights bring their swords down to decapitate their enemies. Three "zombies" are seen in the lower right hand corner, crouching over the body of a fallen knight. Some of his armor has been pulled off, one limb ripped from his body. The zombies feed on the exposed flesh. As the painting itself is unsigned, no one has yet to determine where this work came from or how it ended up in the museum.
850 A.D.
earnt Kuntzel, a friar on his pilgrimage to Rome, recorded this incident in his personal diary. One zombie wandered out of the Black Forest to bite and infect a local farmer. The victim reanimated several hours after his demise and turned on his own family. From there, the outbreak spread to the entire village. Those who survived fled into the lord's castle, not realizing that some among them had been bitten. As the outbreak spread even farther, neighboring villagers descended in a mob towards the infested zone. Local clergy believed that the undead had been infected by the spirit of the devil and that holy water and incantations would banish the evil spirits. This "holy quest" ended in a massacre, with the entire congregation either devoured or turned to living dead themselves.
In desperation, neighboring lords and knights united to "purify the devil's spawn with fire." This ramshackle force burned every village and every zombie within a fifty-mile radius. Not even uninfected humans survived the slaughter. The original lord's castle, inhabited by people who had shut themselves in with the undead, had by then been transformed into a prison of more than 200 ghouls. Because the inhabitants had barred the gates and raised the drawbridge before succumbing, the knights could not enter the castle to purify it. As a result, the fortress was "haunted." For over a decade afterward, peasants passing nerby could hear the moans of the zombies still within. According to Kuntzel's figures, 573 zombies were counted and more than 900 humans were devoured. In his writings, Kuntzel also tells of massive reprisals against a nearby Jewish village, their lack of "faith" blamed for the outbreak. Kuntzel's work survived in the Vatican archives until its accidental discovery in 1973.
1073 A.D.
The story of Dr. Ibrahim Obeidallah, one of the most important pioneers in the field of zombie physiology, typifies the great strides forward and the tragic steps back in science's attempt to understand the undead. An unknown source caused an outbreak of fifteen zombies in Jaffa, a city on the coast of Palestine. Local militia, using a translated copy of Roman Army Order XXXVII, successfully exterminated the threat with a minimum of human casualties. One newly bitten woman was taken under the care of Obeidallah, a prominent physician and biologist. Although Army Order XXXVII called for the immediate decapitation and burning of all bitten humans, Obeidallah convinced (or perhaps bribed) the militia to allow him to study the dying woman. A compromise was reached in which he was permitted to move the body, and all of his equipment, to the city jail. There, in a cell, under the law's watchful eye, he observed the restrained victim until she expired, and continued to study the corpse while it reanimated. He performed numerous experiments on the restrained ghoul. Discovering that all bodily functions necessary to sustain life were no longer functioning, Obeidallah scientifically proved that his subject was physically dead, yet functioning. He traveled throughout the Middle East, gathering information on other possible outbreaks.
Obeidallah's research documented the entire physiology of the living dead. His notes included reports on the nervous system, digestion, even the rate of decomposition in relation to the environment. This work also included a complete study on the behavioral patterns of the living dead, a remarkable achievement if actually true. Ironically, when Christian knights stormed Jerusalem in 1099, this amazing man was beheaded as a worshiper of Satan, and almost all of his work was destroyed. Sections of it survived in Baghdad for the next several hundred years, with only a fraction of the original text rumored to survive. Obeidallah's life story, however, minus the details of his experiments, survived the crusaders' slaughter, along with his biographer (a Jewish historian and former colleague). The man escaped to Persia, where the work was copied, published, and gained modest success in various Middle Eastern courts. A copy remains in the National Archives in Tel Aviv.
1253 A.D.
Following the great tradition of Nordic exploration, Gunnjborn Lundergaart, an Icelandic chieftain, established a colony at the mouth of an isolated fjord. There were reported to be 153 colonists in the party. Lundergaart sailed back to Iceland after one winter, presumably to procure supplies and additional colonists. After five years, Lundergaart returned to find the island compound in ruins. Of the colonists, he found just three dozen skeletons, the flesh picked clean from the bones. It is also reported that he encountered three beings, two women, and one child. Their skin was a mottled gray, and bones stuck through the flesh in places. Wounds were evident, but no traces of blood could be observed. Once sighted, the figures turned and approached Lundergaart's party. Without responding to any verbal communication, they attacked the Vikings and were immediately chopped to pieces. The Norseman, believing the entire expedition cursed, ordered the burning of all bodies and artificial structures. As his own family were among the skeletons, Lundergaart ordered his men to kill him as well, dismember his body, and add it to the flames. The "Tale of Fiskurhofn," told by Lundergaart's party to traveling Irish Monks, survives in the national archives in Reykjavik, Iceland. Not only is this the most accurate account of a zombie attack within ancient Nordic civilization, it may also explain why all Viking settlements within Greenland mysteriously vanished during the early fourteenth century.
1253 A.D.
Following the great tradition of Nordic exploration, Gunnjborn Lundergaart, an Icelandic chieftain, established a colony at the mouth of an isolated fjord. There were reported to be 153 colonists in the party. Lundergaart sailed back to Iceland after one winter, presumably to procure supplies and additional colonists. After five years, Lundergaart returned to find the island compound in ruins. Of the colonists, he found just three dozen skeletons, the flesh picked clean from the bones. It is also reported that he encountered three beings, two women, and one child. Their skin was a mottled gray, and bones stuck through the flesh in places. Wounds were evident, but no traces of blood could be observed. Once sighted, the figures turned and approached Lundergaart's party. Without responding to any verbal communication, they attacked the Vikings and were immediately chopped to pieces. The Norseman, believing the entire expedition cursed, ordered the burning of all bodies and artificial structures. As his own family were among the skeletons, Lundergaart ordered his men to kill him as well, dismember his body, and add it to the flames. The "Tale of Fiskurhofn," told by Lundergaart's party to traveling Irish Monks, survives in the national archives in Reykjavik, Iceland. Not only is this the most accurate account of a zombie attack within ancient Nordic civilization, it may also explain why all Viking settlements within Greenland mysteriously vanished during the early fourteenth century.
Ferdinand Magellan a Portuguese explorer, while attempting to become the first to circumnavigate the globe, Magellan ran afoul of some zombies in the Philippines.
1523 A.D.
The natives tell of a sickness that darkens the soul, causing a
thirst for the blood of their brothers. They tell of men, women,
even children whose flesh have become gray with rot and possess
an unholy smell. Once darkened, there is no method of healing,
save death, and that can only be achieved through fire, since the
body becomes resistant to all arms of man. I believe this to be a
tragedy of the heathen, for; without their knowledge of Our Lord
Jesus Christ, there was indeed no cure for this illness. Now that
we have blessed their masses with the light and truth of His love,
we must strive to seek these darkened souls, and cleanse them
' with all the force of Heaven.
This text was, supposedly, taken from the accounts of Father
Esteban Negron, a Spanish priest and student of Bartolome de las
Casas, previously edited from the original works and recently discovered
in Santo Domingo. Opinions vary on the authenticity of this manuscript.
Some believe it to be a part of a Vatican order to suppress all
information on the subject. Others believe it to be an elaborate hoax
along the lines of the "Hitler diaries."
1554 A.D.
It is said that in 1554 A.D. a Spanish expedition under the command of Don Rafael Cordoza penetrated the Amazon rain-forest in search of the mystical El Dorado. Lead by the Native tribes, they were warned not to enter "The Valley of Endless Sleep." Cordoza and his men were attacked by dozens of walking dead. Cordoza, the only survivor, fled to Spain where he lost his titles for squandering the Crown's resources.
1587 A.D.
Although to this day there is still no definite answer as to what happened to the Roanoke colonists, one account from a local Native American tribe may provide a possibility. From what can be gathered, several hunters from the colony entered a section of forest that the Indians considered cursed. The few hunters that returned to the colony claimed that they were attacked by mad Indians, who were resistant to gunfire. The attackers had killed and eaten several of the hunting party, and left bite wounds on the survivors. The survivors soon died and reanimated, and began attacking their fellow colonists. The local tribe, knowing full well what was happening from their tribal lore, formed a warband and attacked the colony, dispatching both the reanimated, and anyone who had come into contact with the ghouls. Then burned all the bodies afterward.
1611 A.D.
The record here comes from a Dutch merchant, who was told this story by a missionary. Apparently, a samurai had wanted to convert and flee with the Europeans. The samurai had told the priest that he belonged to a secret cult, called the “Society of Life”, a secret organization that was founded, and ultimately reported to, Shogun Tokugawa Ieaysu himself. The mission of this group was to covertly find, combat, and dispatch what can only be described as zombies. Initiates were trained similar to ninja, with combat emphasis on evading holds and decapitating the enemy. The reported final test was to have the initiate locked in a room for an entire night with only the still-moaning heads of decapitate ghouls lining the walls for company. Apparently, the samurai in question was assassinated before he could reach the pier. Although the official account has a number of mistranslations, misconceptions, and unsupported facts, if the Society of Life did in fact exist, it may explain why there have been no major zombie outbreaks in Japan until the twentieth century.
1805 A.D.
As the Eighteenth Century drew to a close, European explorers turned their gaze toward one of the world's last great unexplored regions: the heart of Africa. Though colonizing Europeans had been visiting coastal villages and establishing forts in Africa for over 300 years, little was known of the interior of the Dark Continent. Prior exploration attempts had been undone by disease, hostile tribes and large swaths of dense, unmapped jungle. But these obstacles only whetted the appetites of European explorers hoping to become the first white men to ford the River Niger, look upon the legendary city of Timbuktu, or walk the streets of Tellem, a city on the Niger said to be built entirely of gold.
One such intrepid soul was Mungo Park, a Scottish physician who had been bitten by the exploring bug while in his twenties. In 1795, Park, with the support of England's Africa Society, set off in search of the Niger and the fabled city of Tellem. Park and his team of 30 men sailed down the east coast of Africa to the mouth of the River Gambia, where the English had established a fort. After a trip down the Gambia and an overland trek through dense jungle, the team reached the Niger. By then, however, Park had run out of money and was forced to return to England without finding Tellem.
Park spent the next decade raising funds and organizing a team for a second expedition to Tellem. Finally, in 1805, the Scotsmen embarked from England, fully confident in his mission's success. Park and his team returned to the Niger, where they piled into canoes and paddled south in search of Tellem. None of them were ever heard from again.
Park's disappearance was big news back in England, where the public had developed a fascination with explorations in Africa. A rescue mission was quickly put together under the direction of Africa Society director Joseph Langley. Langley and his team traced Park's route, sailing up the Gambia and crossing the jungle to get to the Niger. At the end of the second day on the river, the team paddled around a bend and laid eyes on the legendary city of Tellem.
In his 1808 account of the mission, Dark River, Langley recalls his team's disappointment upon finding that, far from being a city of gold, Tellem was a small village constructed of mud. As the team drifted closer, they saw dozens of Africans emerging from their homes and walking towards them with a peculiar, stiff-legged gait. In his account of the trip, Langley remembers being initially heartened by the sight of the villagers: "They wore brightly-colored garments and the broadest of smiles." But as he got closer, Langley realized that what he had mistaken for smiles were actually the grimaces of flesh-hungry zombies: the entire village had been transformed. Langley ordered an immediate retreat, but the canoes became swamped in the rapids. As the voracious zombies waded into the river, Langley was swept into the current and carried several miles downriver. He eventually reached a friendly village; the villagers took him to the mouth of the Niger, where he was picked up by a British ship.
Though Langley had gone further into Africa than any white man before him, he found himself the subject of scorn upon his return to London, where his zombie story was derided as a self-serving excuse for a failure in leadership. However, later accounts from the Asante tribes of East Africa lent support to Langley's account. Denkyira, the Asante king, informed the English garrison in Gambia that he had led a raid on Tellem and destroyed many zombies, including several white men. The king presented the garrison commander with the clothes and personal effects of these men. Among the items was Park's diary, with its ominous last entry: "Tomorrow, we should reach Tellem, a city that has haunted my dreams since I was a child. I cannot sleep for the excitement."
1821 A.D.
Jean Lafitte, American Pirate and his men plundered countless ships from his base on Galveston Island in the Gulf of Mexico, but they were powerless to stop the zombie plague that overran the island early in 1821. The U.S. Navy, hoping to contain the spread, bombed the island into oblivion.
1885 A.D.
Louis Pasteur, French Scientist, after discovering the rabies vaccine in 1885, the great microbiologist turned his focus to vampires and zombies. Pasteur was gravely injured while attempting to administer a vaccine prototype to a zombie in Paris.
1888 A.D.
The incident began when a fur trapper name Gabriel Allens stumbled into Hayward with a deep gash on his arm. According to the town doctor, Jonathan Wilkes, who treated Allens, the fur trapper spoke of "a soul who wandered like a man possessed, his skin as gray as stone, his eyes fixed in a lifeless stare". Allens then tried to "approach the wretch" then the wretch "let out a hideous moan and bit the trapper on his right forearm. Little is known about how the infestation spread from this first victim to the other members of the town.
Fragments of data suggest the next victim was Dr. Wilkes, followed by three men who attempted to restrain Allens. Six days after the initial attack, Hayward was a town under siege. Many hid themselves in private homes or the town church while the zombies relentlessly attacked their barricades. Although firearms were plentiful, no one recognized the need for a head shot. Food, water, and ammunition were rapidly consumed. No one expected to hold longer than another six days.
At dawn on the seventh day, a Lakota man named Elija Black arrived. On horseback, with a U.S Army cavalry saber, he decapitated twelve ghouls within the first twenty minutes. Black then used a charred stick draw a circle around the town's water tower before climbing to the top. Between yells, an old army bugle, and his tethered horse for bait, he managed to attract every walking dead in town toward his position. Each one that entered the circle received a head shot from his Winchester repeater.
Soon, Black eliminated the entire horde of 59 zombies within six hours. As survivors began to realize what had happened, they rushed out to greet their savor...however Elijah Black had disappeared.
1893 A.D.
Yet another recorded attack in zombie history. It is most recognized because of the French Foreign Legion's bravery, valor, and will power. This attack is most memorable because of its duration. It is the longest assault by zombies ever recorded (and survived). The brave men of the French Foreign Legion stood their grounds for AN OUTSTANDING 3 years! These men, though trained in combat but not zombie survival, did survive 3 whole years, their ranks were thinned amongst the years because of many failed attempts to climb over their defensive wall and run for help. Those brave men were surrounded by their attackers and eaten. These men only survived because of the fact that their fort was built around a well, and that they had a multitude of supplies and ammunition. Although the situation seemed dire, the men had 1 last ditch effort. Their plan was to equip all the remaining men with all the supplies they had left and open the gates, and let in the undead scourge. Colonel Drax was the man to open the gates. He did so and ran to his remaining allies. As the undead chased Drax, he was pulled away to safety by his allies. By letting all the zombies inside the fort, the remaining survivors maneuvered themselves outside the fort and forced the gate shut, thus trapping all the zombies inside Fort Louis Philippe. After trapping the zombies inside, the remaining forces dispatched all zombies outside the fort with hand-to-hand combat. After the ghouls were dispatched, the forces then marched 240miles to the nearest oasis at Bir Ounane.
Outstanding enough, 50 years later, a U.S. Army B-24 gunner passenger named Anthony Marno, was just returning from a night raid on German troop concentrations in Italy, when his aircraft was running low on fuel over the Algerian Desert. They landed near what looked to be a settlement, so they investigated, what they found, was Fort Louis Philippe. An excerpt form Marno's journal says "What we found inside looked like a kiddies nightmare. We walked to the courtyard and found skeletons, mountains of them! Good thing none of them were in the well huh?" Marno and his crew were picked up by a group of traveling Arabs. When the squad told the Arabs about their findings, they said nothing and disregarded what they said.
No later expedition was ever mounted.Due to fear of infection.
1923 A.D.
This account comes from The Oriental, an exatriate newspaper for Britons living in the Indian Ocean colony. Christopher Wells, a copilot for British Imperial Airways, was rescued from a life raft after fourteen days at sea. Before dying of exposure, Wells explained that he had been transporting a corpse discovered by a British expedition to Mount Everest. The corpse had been a European, his clothing of a century earlier, with no identifying documents. As he was frozen solid, the expedition leader had decided to fly him to Colombo for further study. While en route, the corpse thawed, reanimated, and attacked the airplanes crew. The three men managed to destroy their assailant by crushing his skull with a fire extinguisher (as they did not realize what they were dealing with, the attempt may have been to incapacitate the zombie). While safe from this immediate danger, they now had to contend with a damaged aircraft. The pilot radioed a distress signal but had no time to send a position report. The three men parachuted into the ocean, the crew-chief not realizing that a bite he sustained would have dire consequences later. The following day, he expired, reanimated several hours later, and immediately attacked the other two men. While the pilot wrestled with the undead assailant, Wells, in a panic, kicked both of them overboard. After relating what some would call "confessing his story to the authorities", Wells lapsed into unconsciousness and died the next day. His story was reported as ravings of a sunstroke maniac. A subsequent investigation produced no evidence of the plane, the crew, or the alleged zombie.
1942 A.D.
During Japan's initial advance, a platoon of Imperial Marines was sent to garrison Atuk, an Island in the Caroline chain. Several days after landing, the platoon was attacked by a swarm of zombies from the inland jungle. Initial casualties were high. Without information about the nature of their attackers or the correct means of destruction, the marines were driven to a fortified mountaintop on the north end of the island. Ironically, as the wounded were left to die, the surviving marines spared themselves the danger of taking infected comrades with them. The platoon remained stranded in their mountaintop fortress for several days, lacking food, low on water, and cut off from the outside world. all this time, the ghouls were besieging their position, unable to scale the steep cliffs but preventing any chance of escape. After two weeks of imprisonment, Ashi Nakamura, the platoon sniper, discovered that a headshot was fatal to a zombie. This knowledge allowed the Japanese to eventually combat their attackers. After dispatching the surrounding ghouls with rifle fire, they advanced further for a full sweep of the island and were rescued.
1942 A.D.
In 1942, the Japanese government encountered a small infestation of zombies on a pacific Island mentioned in the travels of Francis Drake. They captured eight, and started the experiment "Cherry Blossom" which attempted to breed zombies. they could not find any traces of Solanum, meaning they could not create "fresh" zombies without making them breed. They tried to train them as mindless drones, but 10 of 16 instructors were bitten, and it was decided to drop ten zombies on British and Chinese forces. One plane was hit by British AA-fire, killing every..thing on board. the zombies that dropped were killed by the Chinese snipers.
1943 A.D.
Although not an actual zombie attack perse, this one does deserve mention. In 1943 a US Bomber was downed over French North Africa. The crew bailed out near an old French Foreign Legion fort. The crew traveled to the fort for supplies and found a massive pile of dead bodies. This was in fact Fort Louis Phillipe the site of a zombie attack 50 years earlier.
1957 A.D.
1957 A.D., MOMBASA, KENYAThis excerpt was taken from an interrogation by a British Anny officer of a captured Gikuyu rebel during the Mau Mau uprising (all answers come secondhand through a translator): Q: How many did you see?A: Five.Q: Describe them.A: White men, their skin gray and cracked. Some had wounds, bite 'marks on parts of their bodies. All had bullet holes in their chests. They 'stumbled, they groaned. Their eyes had no sight. Their teeth were 'stained with blood. The smell of carion announced them. The animals 'fled. An argument erupts between the prisoner and the Mosai interpreter'The prisoner grows silent. Q: What happened?A: They came for us. We drew our lalems (Mosai weapon, similar to'a machete) and sliced off their heads, then buried them.Q: You buried the heads?A: Yes.Q: Why?A: Because a fire would have given us away.Q: You were not wounded?A: I would not be here.Q: You were not afraid?A: We only fear the living.Q: So these were evil spirits?The prisoner chuckles.Q: Why are you laughing?A: Evil spirits are invented to frighten children. These men were waking 'death. The prisoner gave little information for the rest of his interrogation.When asked if there were more zombies out there, he remained silent.The entire transcript appeared in a British tabloid later that year.Nothing was made of it.
1987 A.D.
In 1987, reports of rioting, martial law, and widespread violence towards large unarmed mobs turned the attention of the United States government to a nuclear power plant in Xinjiang, China. The People's Republic of China offered many different stories at first, but none that matched the brutality of the reports coming in, as well as the grave danger of a meltdown of the plant due to collateral damage.
It is rumored that when the US spy satellites maneuvered over the site, they took pictures of tanks and soldiers firing into lumbering crowds that ripped soldiers and civilians alike apart with their bare hands for no apparent reason. It was unclear why the mob was attacking the power plant, but some dissidents have suggested that the Chinese were using a site around or within the power plan to attempt to weaponize the Solanum Virus. These rumors have yet to be confirmed, as the Chinese government continues to strictly control press activity and investigations covering the event.
1994 A.D.
Three Palos Verdes residents Jim Hwang, Anthony Cho, and Michael Kim, reported to police that they were attacked while fishing in the bay. The three men swore that Hwang had been bottom fishing when his line hooked a large, extremely heavy catch. What broke the surface was a man, naked, partially burned, partially decomposed, and still alive. The man attacked the three fishermen, grabbing Hwang and attempting to bite him on the neck. Cho pulled his friend back and Kim smashed the creature in the face with an oar. The attacker sank beneath the surface while the three fishermen headed for shore. All three were immediately subject to drug and alcohol tests by the Palos Verdes Police Department.
1998 A.D.
Jacob Tailor was a documentary filmmaker for the Canadian Broadcast Company who visited the small Siberian town of Zabrovst to record a recently discovered saber-toothed tiger carcass. The body of a man in his late twenties, whose clothing matched that of a sixteenth-century cossack, had also been found. This cossack would turn out to be a zombie that awoke from the deep freeze while Tailor was away in Toronto. It soon targeted local villagers. To see if they were anymore undiscovered remains Tailor sent a team of about 12 to work at a dig sit. Weeks passed by and no communication with the team had been established. Tailor, two cameramen, and an assistant were flown by helicopter to the dig site. Tailor searched and found nothing, then returned to the helicopter, when suddenly a scream was heard. Tailor and his crew found their pilots being devoured. Tailor and his team were targeted by roughly thirty zombies, including the members of his lost dig team. They proceeded to retreat and destroyed one of the two staircases to a nearby house. They then made a ramp of doors on the other one to keep the zombies at bay. Two days later they figured out that the zombies die with blows to the head, and they eventually managed to fend off the zombies with melee weapons. After seven hours of frantically defending themselves against a totally unknown adversary, Tailor's crew managed to re-kill the zombies. Tailor's crew did document the struggle, but the experts of his time denounced the footage as fake, ruining his career. In total, 55 hours of footage were recorded; none of which has been found by the public.
2002 A.D.
A zombie--bloated, waterlogged, with skin completely dissolved-- washed ashore on the northeast coast of the island. Local inhabitants were unsure of what to make of it, keeping their distance and calling for the authorities. It is thought this was only known instance of a zombie traveling long distances undersea before the war. The crowd of beach-goers, unsure what had happened to the zombie, kept out of range until police arrived. The police eventually fired shots at the zombie's chest, but it wasn't until a curious boy was grabbed and almost bitten by the zombie that a tourist from the United States commandeered an officers sidearm, and shot the zombie in the head, killing it. It is unknown what happened to the body after the incident.