Zombie!

I believed zombies were definitely imaginary monsters. But I found an unbelievable article.

In Miami, a naked man was eating most of a homeless man’s face on May 26th. He didn’t stop chewing, so was shot by a policeman. But he didn’t stop eating! The policeman had no choice but shot him about six times and the man was died. The homeless man managed to be saved, but lost more than 70% of his face.

The media reported the news with headlines “Miami zombie” or “Zombie apocalypse”. Actually, the man’s crazy action seems to have been caused by a drug “Bathsalt”, which is now regarded as problematic because it is considered to be legitimate and can be bought at a low price.

Reading this news, I wondered if the origin of zombies was somehow connected with science like Frankenstein. I mean, zombies may have been created to give a lesson to human, though they are just a word which represents crazy men. There is no zombie in Japan and most of Japanese monsters have been an object of awe rather than that of threat or fear. That is one of interesting differences between Japanese monsters and European monsters, I think.