Last May, a man was caught eating another man’s face in Miami, Florida. Behaviors like this were detected in Atlanta, New York, and even Toulouse France. The frequency of these cannibalistic actions raised quite a suspicion among citizens and disease researchers alike. On June 2 2012 CDD (Center for Disease Deterrence) issued an alert associating the attacks with the LQP-79 virus. The virus supposedly corrodes brain tissue and other vital organs causing fever, hallucination, a stupor in gait, and a taste for human flesh. Many people took this seriously others assumed it was a hoax. This whole scare has brought an interest of zombies back into our culture.
In the 60s movies like Night of the Living Dead and The Plague of the Zombies portrayed zombies as stiff, with rotted skin and very slow the origin of their condition unknown. With recent shows like The Walking Dead, present day entertainment portrays zombies as creatures faster on their feet, not fatiguing with a scientifically justifiable explanation for how they became flesh eating monsters. Modern interpretation imposes a more realistic and threatening zombie.
With the threat of zombies streaming among the media, Haunted Houses across America are taking advantage of this mutual fear, specifically Amarillo Haunts. According to Chip Chandler from Amarillo Globe News the Massacre on 6th Street is including a new Zombie Graveyard and Amarillo Scaregrounds has a new Zombie Hospital. Farmageddon, Amarillo’s haunted corn maze even has a zombie paintball shooting range. All these attractions put an entertaining light on a legitimate fear.
Post from: Students in West Commons during 1st Lunch
Where would you hide during a zombie apocalypse?
My House 12%
A Storm Shelter 9%
Warehouse/ Gun store 21%
Underground 4%
Jail 4%
Doughnut Stop 7%
A Boat or on water 11%
Adopt a Disguise Instead 2%
I’m not hiding anywhere! I’m a fighter! 9%
I would just die 2%
Other 19%
