Famous Cases | Historical Tales | Vampires | Zombies
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Famous Cases | Historical Tales | Vampires | Zombies |
The zombie-victim Hall of Fame is a veritable Who's Who of early explorers, as the prevalence of the zombie virus in the world's equatorial regions made any voyage there a risky proposition.
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Ferdinand Magellan Portugese Explorer 1470-1521 While attempting to become the first to circumnavigate the globe, Magellan ran afoul of some zombies in the Philippines.
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Captain Cook English Explorer 1728-1779 The third time was not the charm for this intrepid Englishman. On his third voyage to the Pacific, he was surrounded on a Hawaiian beach by a pack of zombies he had mistaken for a greeting party.
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Mungo Park Scottish Explorer 1771-1805 See The Mystery of Mungo Park
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Jean Lafitte American Pirate 1778-1821 Lafitte and his men plundered countless ships from his base on Galveston Island in the Gulf of Mexico, but they were powerless to stop the zombie plague that overran the island early in 1821. The U.S. Navy, hoping to contain the spread, bombed the island into oblivion.
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Louis Pasteur French Scientist 1822-1895 After discovering the rabies vaccine in 1885, the great microbiologist turned his focus to vampires and zombies. Pasteur was gravely injured while attempting to administer a vaccine prototype to a zombie in Paris.
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