May 2, 2023

This Day in Halloween: Clairvius Narcisse is buried and turned into a real-life voodoo zombie by a witchdoctor in Haiti in 1962. / Illustration by Haley Underwood

Clairvius Narcisse is buried in Haiti in 1962. His apparent death a few days earlier and self-exhumation shortly after, led to the first verifiable case of a person being turned into a real-life voodoo zombie by a witchdoctor.

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