WORLD BELIEFS

Nearly three-hundred residents of a South African town recently admitted to eating human flesh that had been given to them by a local medicine man. ...

I hesitated writing this article, so as not to add fodder to the ridiculous rumors surrounding Ebola and zombies, rumors that won’t die– like the ...

Last week we reported on US Health Agencies’ intention to grant  an exclusive license to a Minnesota company, to develop a vaccine for Ebola; one ...

Some time ago we published an article about a ceremony in Tana Toraja Regency of South Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, in which the deceased, having died ...

There is often a very fine line between myth and reality.  Case in point.  There are a number of psychoses with behavior connected to specific ...

Zombie Research Society Exclusive The real-life story of the “walking dead” of Tana Toraja, Regency of South Sulawesi Island, Indonesia began with some misinformation regarding ...

The Aghori is a cannibalistic Hindu sect believed by some to derive mystical powers from their strange and macabre rituals. They live in cemeteries across ...

Unlike corpses rising from the grave in George Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead, Voodoo zombies are created through a mixture of drugging, religious ...

The Songhai Tribe of West Africa don’t wait for zombies to rise from the grave.  They create their own by inviting the dead to enter ...

We previously covered the possibility of a historic battle between South American headhunters and an ancient undead horde (see: Zombie Headhunters of Ecuador), but another ...