From the Night of the Living Dead to Sean of the Dead, Zombie apocalypse's, epoxy, epoxypsies. Anyway, they have long been a beloved

theme in science fiction and horror. But what if a zombie takeover actually happened in real life?

I'm not referring to how you feel on Monday morning after a long holiday weekend,

we all feel dead to the world on that day.

And some of us look it.

I mean, really truly being attacked by undead corpses.

While researchers at Alto University in Finland decided to explore this question,

because apparently they have way too much money in Finland and wanted to find something to blow it on.

Imagine the scenario. A lone zombie appears in Helsinki.

Possibly deceased Argentinian First Lady Eva Perone who died during the 1952 Olympics taking place there.

Hey, if we're going to be chased by a zombie, why not make it one of

notoriety and charm? According to the study, Helsinki would have a mere seven hours

to quarantine or eliminate Eva and her bitten and now undead horde before the entire country is overrun.

Yep, seven hours.

That's not even enough time to go looting before you have to stop and run for your life.

What's the fun in having a 28 days later scenario if you have only 28 minutes to get all of your illegal shoplifting done?

Seven hours from one undead nibble from Eva to total

annihilation. The researchers simulations revealed that a zombie plague would spread faster than the summer cicadas of 2024.

How do you simulate a zombie spread, though?

What facts and figures do you plug into your computer model about an undead outbreak, seeing as no such thing has ever happened

outside of pop culture and media.

How do you know your scientific wild buttocks guesses are even remotely close to accurate.

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