The Zombie Threat: Part 1

What is a Zombie?

Good question. It is a question that not many can answer. However, I have spent time studding zombies in India (just about the only place where it is legal), so I am the person to ask.

Since the last zombie outbreak was in Russia over thirty years ago, many people think that the threat of a zombie outbreak is zero. However, it is now greater than ever. In today’s world of mass transit and large cities, one zombie can become hundreds in a matter of minutes.

I have spent many hours doing experiments with many zombies, which we preferred to call reanimated corpses, simply because it draws less suspicion and it differentiates real zombies from the public perception of them.

Now, let’s get straight to the point. What exactly is a zombie? Well, the scientific community was split on the cause of reanimation. Even paranormal experts tried to voice their opinion. It was not until nearly forty-five years ago until zombies were studied using the modern scientific method.

The year was 1965, the height of the Cold War. Both NATO and the Soviet Union were developing chemical and biological weapons. However, the Soviets had something NATO didn’t. They had a scientist that was in the Canadian Artic when nearly half of the Inuits died from a localized zombie outbreak. And he was ready to weaponize it.

During the next artic winter, when the sun ceases to shine for several months, a mysterious Russian Antonov An-12 landed on a frozen river near Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada, an area with a population of less than a hundred Inuits. The locals were told that if they investigated, they would be killed. One week later the plane left to an undisclosed destination in Siberia. The locals were astounded to find a neat cube of permafrost, (approximately 4 feet wide, 6 feet long, and 10 feet deep) neatly removed from the ground. The Russians left with nothing more.

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