This Day in Halloween: Clairvius Narcisse is buried in 1962, dug up and becomes the first verifiable case of a “zombie” due to Haitian voudou. / Illustration by Cesar Arias
Clairvius Narcisse is buried in 1962. His apparent death a few days earlier and self exhumation shortly after, led to the first verifiable case of a person being a “zombie” due to Haitian voudou.
