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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Antony Thrower

Real-life zombies: How rare cases of people ‘coming back to life’ actually happen

An expert has helped explain how reports of people coming back to life can happen in real life - and it’s not because of a zombie apocalypse.

The first mention of the living dead is said to come from 17th century Haiti when it was described as a monster.

Their coming back from the dead to feast on the living was only added in the 20th century in popular culture, such as George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead series.

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