Zombies, Sorcery, and Secret Societies! (Haitian Zombies)

MYS160: Are Haitian zombies just mentally ill people or is there something more sinister going on? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore reports that Haitian sorcerers are turning people into zombies using a combination of magic and poisons. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow using the RSS feed | Follow using Apple Podcasts | Follow using Google Podcasts | Follow using Stitcher | Follow by Email | Listen and subscribe on YouTube Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Wade Davis’s book Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie * Wade Davis’s book The Serpent and the Rainbow * Garth Haslam’s book Zombies: History, Belief, and Modern Ideas * Zombie * Revenant * Haiti * Haitian Vodou * Lancet article (paywall) * Uncanny Valley * Premature burial * White Zombie (1932) * BBC short video * National Geographic short video * Interview with a Zombie (Wilfrid Dorissant documentary) * Clairvius Narcisse * Tetrodotoxin * Datura Stramonium * U.S. State Department on human trafficking in Haiti * Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore. * Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page. * Send your feedback or comments to [email protected] or send a tweet to @mys_world Mysterious Headlines * Looking for Alien Artifacts on the Moon * Cloaking Earth from...