The Truth About "Zombies"

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

As summer turns and fall begins, Ridiculous History officially enters the most wonderful time of the year. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the legend of a specific kind of 'living dead' -- the zombie. According to the stories, a zombie is a cadaver reanimated through evil magic, and cursed to obey the commands of a powerful bokor (sorceror). Yet is this only a tall tale? Or, just maybe... is there a grain of truth to this grisly lore?

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians.
0:29.2	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:32.3	Let's hear it for our super producer, Mr. Max, zombie, zombie.
0:38.0	Oh, goodness.
0:42.3	Williams.
0:43.4	With their tanks and their guns and their guns and their guns and their zombies.
0:48.3	The cranberries absolutely nailed that tiny desk.
0:51.3	Also a great juice, an underrated juice, even if it's made from concentrate.
0:55.7	I have to drink cranberry juice because I used to have kidney stones.
0:59.8	That's a little TMI.
1:01.5	So I'm a bit of a, a bit of a connoisseur of the cranberry.
1:05.6	Yeah, what's your favorite?
1:06.9	I particularly like getting the straight up cranberry juice and then...
1:12.2	Dibing it a little bit.
1:13.4	Yeah, yeah, diluting it, mixing it down a little bit.
1:16.6	I'm Ben Bowling.
1:17.5	That is Mr. Noel Brown.
1:19.1	Hello.
1:19.8	Hello.
1:20.9	Noel, we are getting into, as we said earlier, we are getting into the fall season, the most wonderful time of the year.
1:31.1	We're just a day past the Equinox, right?
1:34.3	Oh, yeah, look at you, man.
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