May 2, 2021

This Day in Halloween: Real life Haitian voodoo zombie Clairvius Narcisse is buried in 1962. / Illustration by Angela Smith

Clairvius Narcisse is buried in 1962. His apparent death a few days earlier and digging up shortly after, led to the first verifiable case of a person being a “zombie” due to Haitian voudou. 

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