You're listening to Unexplained Season 4, Episode 8, Death's Pale Flag, Part 2.

Stepping off the plane, Davis was hit instantly by the humidity and thick warm air, a startling

contrast to the dry coolness of Boston. With only a few weeks to get to the bottom of the

zombie phenomenon, he swiftly made his way to the hotel in Porto Prince before making a phone call

to the residents of his first contact, Max Beauvoir. The 45-year-old Beauvoir was born in Haiti

and later educated in the United States and France where he studied chemistry, eventually

settling in Massachusetts to work as a chemical engineer. The death of his father, however,

led him back to his homeland, where in 1973, he trained to become a voodoo priest, also known as a

hongan. The next year, Beauvoir established a temple in his home, which had since become known

for the elaborate voodoo ceremonies he conducted there. Pulling up to Beauvoir's home,

Davis was greeted by the man himself, dressed sharply in a white linen shirt.

Having been expecting the young ethno-botanist, Beauvoir showed Davis around his house,

before offering him a seat in the garden to discuss the matter at hand.

Beauvoir was intrigued by Davis' incline's assumption that it was some kind of potion or poison

that enabled the zombie state at which they had heard so much. You don't agree,

asked Davis. Beauvoir smiled to himself in response and looked off into the palm trees that

surrounded his garden. If you're trying to find a poison, Mr. Davis, you'll be a long time looking

for it. As Beauvoir went on to explain, it wasn't a poison that created the zombie state. It was

the magic of the Bokoor, the voodoo sorcerer that created it. Beauvoir laughed at the look of

surprise on Davis' face and invited him to a ceremony he was conducting in his home that night.

Perhaps then he thought, Davis might get a better idea of just what exactly he was dealing with.

Later that night, after arriving at Beauvoir's home,

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