4 Tales of Zombie Woe

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4 True Tales of Zombie Woe

³A Zombie is a fictional corpse brought back to life by mystical or scientific means.The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of

consciousness and self-awareness, yet able to respond to surrounding stimulus.´

1.MIND-CONTROLLING FUNGI Vs THE

ZOMBIE ANTS!

³Won¶t give up it wants me dead, goddam this noise inside my head!´ NIN

Four new species of mind-controlling fungi have been discovered by scientists.Samples collected in Brazil¶s tropical rain forests identified that each new speciesspecialize in controlling a different species of ant.

Once infected the ants turn into zombies enslaved by the fungal Parasites. The fungusthen uses as-yet-unidentified chemicals to control the ant¶s behavior. This may allsound like the plot of the old B movie µInvasion of The Body-snatchers,¶ however Ican assure you this is real science. In fact mind-controlling parasites are thought todate back millions of years. The first zombie ant fungus to be discovered wasµOphiocordyceps unilateralis,¶ way back in 1865.

³ Its fantastically powerful, beyond any comprehension, malignant. All that body need was a mind, and it was taking mine while I was sleeping.´ Invasion of the body

snatchers (1954)

The Fungus instructs the zombie ants to leave the colony, seek out a fresh leaf and bite down on the underside of it to anchor itself. The fungus eventually kills the hostant by way of poisonous chemical that it excretes. The fungus then sprouts a long



stalk that grows out from the ant¶s head, or as you can see from the image below,often sprouting from many other areas, depending on the species of fungi. The sproutsthen shoot spores out into the air that are intended to infect other ants.

One of the four species discovered µcamponoti-novogranadensis,¶ is already thoughtto be in danger of extinction, as the site were this species was found is becoming a lotdrier and hotter. The host Carpenter ants will probably survive the change intemperature, but their mind-controlling fungi Overlords wont be so fortunate.

This very bizarre way of reproducing is the product of millions of years of co-

evolution and is further testament to the unguided but infinitely adaptive nature of random mutation though natural selection. A very good example of just how complexand versatile genetic systems such as this can become, if given sufficient time todevelop.



2.MEET THE JEWEL WASP!

The parasitoid Jewel Wasp is probably one of the most unpleasant little creatures inexistence. With crimes to its name such as kidnap, unprovoked brain surgery andinter-species date-rape, its not hard to see why this foul pestilence earned such afearsome reputation. Charlie Darwin even said that the life cycle of the parasitoidwasp was one of the reasons he didn¶t believe in a beneficent god!

³ I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have

designedly created the wasp with the express intention of their feeding within the

living bodies of other insects.´ Charles Darwin.

The Wasp uses live cockroaches as a food supply for its larva. It does this by performing on the spot brain-surgery to its unsuspecting prey. First the wasp uses itssting to paralyze the front legs, then it goes back in for a more precise injectiondirectly into the cockroaches brain (this is no easy task, as the cockroach is five time

bigger than the wasp.) The sting releases neurotoxins that µhijack the free will¶ of the prey. During the brain sting the wasp targets a specific area in the cockroaches brain,the sub-esophageal ganglion (SEG).

Amazingly, surgically removing the cockroaches SEG prior to the wasp stinging, prolongs the duration of the sting by five times. This suggests that the wasp is mostdefiantly actively targeting the SEG during the sting. With surgical precision the wasp

seems to know exactly what its looking for and is also in someway aware when it¶sspecific target is not where it should be, in effect the wasp is in fact performing a kindintricate but instinctual brain-surgery. (a natural born brain-surgeon!! think of themoney you¶d save on college tuition fees.)



³GET AWAY FROM HER YOU BITCH!!

The stung cockroach becomes a living µzombie¶, incapable of self-initiating walking.After being stung the cockroach first grooms itself extensively for 30 minutes, (How

bizarrely accommodating.) and then becomes zombiefied for 3±7 days. The stingdepresses the drive to move but does not paralyze the cockroach, allowing the wasp to

lead it by the antenna into a nest where it can impregnate it with its parasitic alienlarva. Before doing so the wasp (in a very unsporting move) snaps one of the

cockroaches antenna and drinks some cockroach blood so to refuel«charming!!

The wasp then lays an egg on the cockroach and seals the nest, leaving the preytrapped inside. After two days the wasp larva hatches and feeds on the still livecockroach for another three days.

The zombifed prey, can¶t put up a fight or try to escape due to the powerfulneurotoxins. The larva then pupates inside the host cockroach. It hatches a month later as an adult, ready to start the process all over again«

³ In this strange and apparently cruel operation one circumstance is truly remarkable.

The larva of the wasp, though every day, it gnaws the inside of the insect, and thoughat last it has devoured almost every part of it except the skin and intestines, carefully

all this time it avoids injuring the vital organs, as if aware that its own existencedepends on that of the insect upon which it preys!´ Charles Darwin.



3. DAHMER¶S ZOMBIE SEX

SLAVES!

³There was something missing in Jeff. We call it a µconscience.¶ That had either died

or had never been alive in the first place.´ Jeffrey Dahmers father.

From one cockroach to another, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on 21,05,1960 to astrict christian fundamentalist family in Wisconsin. Dahmer¶s life was troubled fromvery early on, a neighbour badly molested young Dahmer, who was said to be a shychild, suffering from low self-esteem. Dahmer also had a history of abandonment,

beginning when his father left the home for a period. Upon his return, his mother took his brother and left Jeffrey alone with his estranged father.

I think its safe to say that Jeffrey wasn¶t like the ³other´ children. You see, there was

nothing little Jeffrey liked more than killing, mutilating and collecting dead animals to

fulfill his prepubescent necrophilic fantasizes. He would quite happily waste the dayaway playing joyfully in the garden with the impaled heads of rotting animals.

³When he was young, he liked to use acid, to scrape the meat off dead animals.´ saidJeffery¶s stepmother, Shari Dahmer, who, bizarrely thought his obsession with deathwas normal, just a passing phase!?

Unfortunately, Jeffery was anything but normal, and as the other boys his age were

out chasing girls, Jeffrey was already having fantasies about killing and mutilatingyoung men. At the age of 18 In the summer of 1978, Jeffrey committed his first

murder. He was reported to have smashed up the bones of his victim, hitchhiker,Stephen Hicks because in his own words he ³didn¶t want him to leave.´ He didn¶t kill

again for another nine years.

It wasn¶t until 1987 that he picked up his second victim, Steven Toumi, 24, in a gay bar in Milwaukee. In 1988 he served 10 months for molesting a13-year old boy. ThenIn the few short years following his release from prison he killed another 15 youngmen.



Jeffery would drug his victims after luring them back to his apartment. He wouldusually strangle or stab them to death. After having sex with the bodies, he wouldthen use a hacksaw to cut them up. He would keep their heads and private parts as akind of gruesome trophy. Other body parts were used as frozen-dinners«.Dahmer

said human flesh ³tasted like beef.´

Jeffrey also conducted D.I.Y lobotomies on some of his victims, by pouring acid intoholes drilled in their skulls. Dahmer testified that some of the victims died straightaway and some lived in zombie like states for several days.

Dahmer killed 17 men

One Zombified Asian boy, somehow managed to wonder free, and was found by police screaming incoherently while running around the apartment parking lot naked,and with blood streaming from his head. Dahmer told the police that the boy was hislover, and that they were having a little domestic. Police even then escorted theconfused boy back to Dahmers apartment, where they left him to die. Seemingly theydidn¶t notice the drill holes on the boys head, or the smell rotting bodies in theapartment, or even the pictures of severed heads on the refrigerator door. A mistake

that would cost the life¶s of four more victims. Dahrmer killed 17 men in all.

Dahmer was finally apprehended on the morning of 27 of may,1991. Wisconsindoesn¶t have capital punishment so Jeffery received fifteen consecutive life sentences,a minimum of 936 years in prison for his crimes. However, on November 28, 1994 hewas murdered by Christopher Scarver, another inmate. Perhaps in an act for finalsalvation, shortly before his death Dahmer was re-baptized into Christianity (they¶lltake anyone these days!) Ironically, Scarver, the man who killed Dahmer, said that he,himself, was the ³son of God´ and was acting on his ³father¶s´ command to kill.

To say a final goodbye in 1996 , the people of Milwaukee raised more than $400,000to have the apartment building Dahmer lived in ripped down, and all his possessions

incinerated«Don¶t you just love a happy ending«



4. A SHORT HISTORY OF

LOBOTOMY!

Howard Dully (born November 30, 1948) is one of the youngest recipients of the transorbital

or ³ice-pick´ lobotomy, a procedure performed on him when he was 12 years old.

³There¶s nothin¶ in the face. Just like one of those store dummies. You can see by his

eyes how they burned him out over there; his eyes are all smoked up and gray and deserted inside.´ Chief Bromden, One flew over the Cuckoo¶s Nest.

It was in the late 1880s that the first major attempt at human psycho surgery wasconducted. A Swiss psychiatrist by the name of Gottlieb Burckhardt is said to be thefirst to perform such a procedure. He removed a piece of cerebral cortex from the

brains of six living patients at the Préfargier Asylum. Although one of the patents diednot long after the operation, Burckhardt somehow saw his results as encouraging. He

published a report and presented it to Berlin Medical Congress. However, the procedure was rejected and so Burckhardt discontinued his work, never performingthe procedure again.

There was some more work done in the field in the early 1900, but it wasn¶t until1935 at the Hospital Santa Marta in Lisbon, that António Egas Moniz developed thesurgery called µThe Prefrontal leucotomy¶, or as we know it today µthe Lobotomy¶.Having no clinical psychiatric experience and, indeed, little interest in the field, didn¶tseem to prove a problem to Moniz. It seems in those days that anyone with a medicaldegree could have a crack at devising and implementing new brain-surgerytechniques.



Neurosurge Pedro Almeida Lima performed the first leucotomy under direction byMoniz in 1935. Moniz early procedure involved drilling some holes in the patient¶shead and killing tissue in the frontal lobes with pure alcohol. As if that wasn¶t badenough he later refined his technique, using a µleucotome¶ a device that cuts and

grinds the brain tissue by rotating a retractable wire loop.

The theory behind Moniz work was simple, he thought that the neural pathways werecaught in fixed and destructive circuits and that removing these fixed brain circuitsmight lead to some improvement in overall mental symptoms. Despite the fact that the

procedure had always been controversial it was mainstream for more than twodecades. Moniz even received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949

In 1941, when Rosemary kennedy was 23, doctors told her father that a newneurosurgical procedure, lobotomy, would help calm her mood swings andsometimes-violent outbursts..

Intrigued by Moniz¶s work, the American neurologist and psychiatrist Walter Freeman performed the first prefrontal leucotomy in the United States in 1936. Withthe help of neurosurgeon James W. Watts they went on to develop the ³precisionmethod´ or µThe Freeman-Watts procedure¶, which would soon become the standardfor prefrontal lobotomies worldwide. Freeman¶s also developed the ³transorbital´lobotomy, which was easier to perform but in no way less grotesque, as it involvedgoing in through the top of the eye sockets with the point of a thin surgical instrumentcalled an orbitoclast.He was reported to have practiced with an ice pick from his

kitchen on grapefruits and cadavers.

Freeman relentlessly popularized the procedure in the US. He theorized that bydestroying tissue near the µthalamus¶ an area in the brain that he thought responsiblefor emotional over-excitement, he might improve the overall standard of life for serious psychiatric patients. Of course he provided little proof of his work, regardless;thousands of people underwent the treatment. Including JFK¶s sister, rosemary.Instead of the hoped-for result, Rosemary was left with urinary incontinence and an



infantile mentality ² staring blankly at walls for hours. Her speech becameunintelligible. Thousand more were reduced to little more than vegetative zombies.

³Prefrontal lobotomy« has recently been having a certain vogue, probably not

unconnected with the fact that it makes the custodial care of many patients easier. Let me remark in passing that killing them makes their custodial care still easier.´

Norbert Wiener.

It wasn¶t just the criminally insane that went under the knife. Lobotomies were usedon patient suffering from a whole verity of symptoms, such as anxiety, agitation,schizophrenia, panic disorders, mania, catatonia and manic-depression. (one wouldimagine in those days fraudulent incapacity benefit claims wouldn¶t have been asmuch of a problem.)

Doctors eventually concluded that the procedure was ³contrary to the principles of

humanity´ and that it turned ³an insane person into an idiot.´ Most countries bannedthe procedure by the 1970s. However, the damage had all ready been done. All in40,000 to 50,000 were lobotomized in the US alone. In Great Britain, 17,000

lobotomies were performed. In Denmark there were 4,500. Finland, Norway andSweden collectively lobotomized approximately 9,300 people. Worldwide the figuresrun into hundreds of thousands.

And so there it is, a real life, man-made, zombie pandemic!!!

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