Don’t worry, the undead aren’t walking the earth, attacking people in Montana. The moaning, shambling figures you see are simply Montanans who are struggling through the winter.
From the Great Falls Tribune:
Cindy Paavola, the University of Northern Michigan spokesperson, said that through the investigation so far, authorities believe they know where the source is coming from and that it is international. Right now the assumption is that they are cases in Montana and Northern Michigan are all connected, but it has not been confirmed.
According to Cynthia Thompson of ABC 10 in Northern Michigan, the party responsible for the attack in Montana — and what appears to be an identical hoax in northern Michigan — has been identified by law enforcement. It was determined that a “back-door” attack allowed the hacker to access the security of the EAS equipment, Thompson said.
It is unknown at this time if the suspect — or suspects, possibly — have been charged.
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Great Falls police Sgt. Bryan Slavik said throughout the day he’s received calls from the BBC in London, newspapers in Australia and Canada, the New York Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, as well as TV and radio stations around the world. The questions are all the same, and his response has been that Great Falls is taking it as the joke that it is, although if the perpetrators decided to make it more serious, then the hoax would not funny(sic).
Indeed. Though, truth be told, it is kinda funny. Hopefully though, this marks the death-knell for the zombie craze (The Walking Dead not included, because that show is fantastic). This business has gone on too long, dammit.
This article appears in Feb 7-13, 2013.
I know, I know….but it’s still pretty hysterical…LMAO!
Zombies probably do or did exist. They do not attack people or eat flesh. They have been purported to exist in some parts of Africa, Haiti, and possibly the Southeastern US. I’m not batty. I’ve done some research. Very little information is available and those who might have had experience are generally very secretive.
A Zombie is an animated person with no will of his own but can react to outside stimuli. Such a state can be induced by a doctor “or witchdoctor, whatever you want to call it) by use of a drug or solution that causes a deathlike state for a short period of time. A slight miscalculation, however, was fatal.
Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier who ruled Haiti for 28 years exploited a traditional belief in voodoo to establish a personal militia, the feared and hated Tonton Macoutes, said to be zombies that he had raised from the dead.
In any case, I doubt that any exist today, possibly for a number of reasons.
In her book “All Souls Night,” Ann Rice mentions a zombie in more depth. Mind, the book is total fiction. But it’s pretty clear she’s done extensive reseearch on the subject as what she wrote reflects what I’ve found from my own reading or discussion. I doubt if any authoritative or corroborative recorded information exists. However, what I’ve read and heard, is pretty persuasive.