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In 1980 a man walks into the marketplace of the Haitian town of Lestare.

He approached a woman and greeted her warmly, introducing himself by his boyhood nickname.

The man and woman were in fact family, but the woman simply stared back at him in shock.

As words spread throughout the marketplace of the man's arrival, panicking commotion began to

stir the humid Haitian air. The man's name was Clervius Narsis and he was well known

in Lestaire. To his dismay, he found that his warm greeting was not returned. This should not have really struck him as much of a surprise,

as Clavis Narsiks had died and been buried in the Stair Cemetery 18 years prior. This is Dark Histories where the facts are worse than fiction.

Hello and welcome season Dark Histories and I'm Ben

and this week we're gonna be talking about zombies

which is a subject that well it makes me very excited and when I read

these books initially written by Wade Davis, I was just blew my mind that this stuff

might actually exist. So let's just get straight into this. This is zombies, a true story of Haitian Voodoo.

In 1982, Wade Davis, now professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia,

was studying for a PhD in Ethnobotony at Harvard.

He had travelled to far-flung reaches several times in support of his studies, and he had taken a particular interest in studying psychoactive plants used among the tribes people of the Americas.

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