6 Bizarre Real World Versions of Fictional Monsters

[Thorn]

I post this of course because there is a zombie reference though I have to be honest I got quite the laugh out of the vampire bit as well. (see link below for full article) #4. Zombies Few movie monsters will ever be as cool as zombies because zombies, unlike every other creature out there, clearly don't give a sh17. They're physically incapable of giving a sh17. They hobble about like couch potatoes who've lost their couch, only bothering to speak when they want to eat something. Zombies are the sleepy, fat, old guys of monsters. It's natural then, with all the glitz and glamor of zombie life, we'd want to introduce that to our real, living world as soon as possible. Why endure work and stress and social interaction when you can just leak fluids from open wounds, moan and eat a neighbor? Why indeed. Under the guise of trying to save lives, researchers at the Safar Centre ( http://www.safar.pitt.edu/content/pr...dex_safar.html ) for Resuscitation Research have put an ungodly amount of time into seeing how long after death they can bring a person back to life. A few years back they successfully managed to drain all the blood from some dogs, keep them iced for three hours, then bring them back to life. If you can think of a cooler pet than a dog that's had all of its blood drained, replaced by freezing saline and then brought back to life three hours after dying, it better be a monkey butler because nothing else fits the bill. One of the goals for the Safar Centre is to be able to treat soldiers injured on the field where they wouldn't be able to get standard medical treatment. Long story short, this means a soldier who dies in battle can then be brought back a few hours later. This means they want the US to have a zombie army. This is, in turn, awesome. On the less spectacular side of things is the belief in Voodoo zombies, which some attribute to being a drug-induced state brought on by a bokor (which roughly translates to "F'd up Voodoo dude who wants to convince people you're a walking corpse for some reason"). Sadly, research into how to make zombies with magic is harder than you might expect, so no one knows for sure if anyone has ever really made a zombie or how they would have done it if it happened at all. Source: http://www.cracked.com/article_16916...-monsters.html

[Philly_SWAT]

LOL, funny!

[AcesandEights]

Ayup, posted before, but always interesting. I remember doing follow up research on the Safar Center in early or mid-2008 to little avail (aside from basic info from their website, no specific updated info on these projects, however).