The Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S. | Monstrum

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In the first episode of our three-part special series, we explore the complex history of the zombie-from its origins in the spiritual beliefs of the African diaspora to the development of Vodou in Haiti. Learn how one of the most enduring monsters in popular culture evolved in the midst of slavery, racism and prejudice.
Featuring expert interviews from Voodoo Chief Divine Prince Ty Emmecca, Associate Professor of History at LSU Dr. Kodi Roberts, and Professor and Author Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror Dr. Robin Means Coleman, you’ll get a new perspective on the long and complicated history of Voodoo in America and some insight into how the “zombi” became the “zombie.” #zombie #Vodou #Voodoo #MonstrumPBS
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Producer: Stephanie Noone
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We would like to sincerely thank Divine Prince Ty Emmecca for his openness and expertise, and for allowing us into his religious space. Special thanks are also due to Kodi Roberts, Ph.D. and Robin Means Coleman, Ph.D. whose generosity of knowledge were integral to this episode, and we are in debt to them.
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@valeriemenchaca1774 4 года назад

Hearing the origins of zombies in the vodou religion instantly brought my mind to think of the movie get out. About the body was taken over to and ones free will is forcefully taken but they are not actually gone/dead.

@gerardtay 4 года назад

Jordan Peele is such a brilliant man.

@TheLadyKiel 3 года назад

Wow, I haven’t even though of that! Amazing insight

@mrsinister8978 3 года назад

Never thought of it that way.

@joannavelez5179 3 года назад

I wonder if that was one of the inspirations for the movie. Wouldn't be surprised if it was.

@Raccon_Detective. 3 года назад

He did his reaserch

@holliisixx 2 года назад

"zombies are simply shells- mindless workers with no emotions, no ability to feel pain, completely subservient to the whims of their master"

@valbourne1797 4 года назад

you would think the original zombie would be a scarier premise to people considering the modern relationship to labor.

@RooftopRose079 4 года назад

What I find ironic is that the connection to laboring strangely makes Hotel Transylvania more accurate than most American Zombie films.

@vertiathegreen9858 4 года назад

I can't wait for the next part of this series. I've never been more fascinated by zombies until you delved into it

@fouchnickens 4 года назад

Looking forward to the rest of the series, but the discussion of zombies deserved voices within the Haitian Voudou community.

@justgamingin2023 4 года назад

Amazing documentary i really still amazed so much information.this is why i love this channel.can wait to see part 2

@laurab1673 4 года назад

this is an awesome video. can’t wait for the other parts!!

@whatsthepointoflivingifudo7310 4 года назад

This channel is so underrated

@marieduran9466 4 года назад

I have two comments, it is Saint Dominique, the q sounds like a k, not Dominne. Second as far as the Serpent and the Rainbow goes, the protagonist is having hallucinations and so I think that is a reflection of what he though, not everyone else's. Remember, he was the only one going through the process. it was Craven's interpretation of what the protagonist went through. You can say that is West Craven's mindset, but not everyone else's, not everyone has the mindset of West Craven--and I am glad of that.

@LindaC616 3 года назад

I think she's using the French pronunciation, Saint-Domingue, since it was a French colony, and that was the name

@danielrolon56 3 года назад

Awesome

@pbsstoried 4 года назад

When I started researching the undead in grad school (yes, I wrote my dissertation about them), I never would have thought I'd be lucky enough to have a special like this. And it's only possible because of the experts and storytellers who were willing to lend me their knowledge. This episode wouldn't have been possible without the help and expertise of Divine Prince Ty Emmecca, who allowed me into his home and taught me more about Voodoo than I could ever have imagined. I am also grateful for the knowledge shared by Dr. Roberts and Dr. Means Coleman.-Dr. Z

@Imperiused 4 года назад

Looking forward to the future episodes and congratulations on achieving the special. I hope this brings more people to the channel!

@eswan7329 4 года назад

Loved this episode. Challenging and informative. Would it be possible for y'all to be transparent with how these experts were/are being compensated?

@winteryuki_onna6155 4 года назад

I hope they don't take over my body •́ ‿ ,•̀

@eswan7329 4 года назад

@@ianfarr-wharton1000 dumb is an ableist word. There is no such thing as history, religion, culture without what you are calling politics. Nothing can be divorced from context and still be true. Asking for the history of Zombies without the history of the African Diaspora is an attempt to whitewash the history, the religion, everything in this video. If you don't like it don't watch it. But it's not the video that's the problem. It's your desire to ignore the impact colonialism on the world. Australia's got a hell of a lot of colonialist problems of its own.

@harlandeffendall7435 4 года назад

Aren't Draugr older? (I think they are considered zombies)

@jaypatton217 3 года назад

Sooo..the closest thing we've seen to the original haitian zombi on film is actually Georgina the housekeeper and walter the groundskeeper from Get Out??

@DieezahArts 3 года назад

Or on tv, the first boyfriend of Macy in the Charmed reboot.

@TupocalypseShakur 3 года назад

There was one in the Ghost Whisperer

@blackreazor 3 года назад

Um no. The serpent and the rainbow is the closest thing we've seen to the original Haitian zombies

@beekeeper2036 3 года назад

@@blackreazor 💯

@floridaman5202 3 года назад

@@blackreazor gosh ive been looking for the tittle of the movie. i watched it once when im a kid and it scares me to death. might rewatch it now

@grapeshot 4 года назад

It is quite interesting that the zombie genre is so popular. And most people probably wouldn't know it had roots in West Africa.

@factanonverba7547 4 года назад

There were undead in classical greek and other places too

@necrosim 4 года назад

@@factanonverba7547 there were undead myths and stories in most cultures but as stated above, the zombie concept originated directly from West Africa.

@factanonverba7547 4 года назад

@@necrosim scary nonetheless

@lyndsaybrown8471 4 года назад

Ngl read about it on Pottermore in the Inferi article.

@matthewplacencia6340 4 года назад

@@factanonverba7547 as if greeks were one of the oldest civilizations 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@su-enaahleebeautifulcontra3617 3 года назад

As a Haitian, I'm glad to hear you actually studied the history. And then you interview Prince Ty, 🤩

@Blakzino 3 года назад

Why do Haitians call themselves “Zoe’s”?

@jordyntaylor877 3 года назад

@@Blakzino Zoe is short for "Zoe Pound" it was a group of Haitian teens that got together to protect eachother from the bullying of "African American" teens. The Zoe's grew in popularity within the young Haitian culture and the reputation of the Zoe's is wildly respected by any one who knows about them. So the young generation (some who are now in their late twenties -40 or so consider themselves part to be a Zoe because historically and culturally Haitians believe in unification when everyone is against u. I hope, I answered ur question.

@Stoicsaiyan 3 года назад

@@jordyntaylor877 Zoe pound is actually a street gang from Miami that uses Haitian pride

@desperadox7565 3 года назад

Divine Prince ™ 😂

@lildannyboi13 3 года назад

i always thought Zoe meant Zombies on Earth

@williwanderer 4 года назад

In French Creole, these mean : "ti ange" = Little Angel "gros bon ange" = Big Good Angel

@Thessalin 4 года назад

Neat. Thank you.

@rouskeycarpel1436 4 года назад

Haitian creole.French would be petit ange=little angel, grand bon ange=big good angel.

@johnsonhua9734 4 года назад

@@rouskeycarpel1436 we know

@ClintEPereira 4 года назад

@@johnsonhua9734 not all of us know Haitian Creole and the video didn't go into linguistics

@mattuwu9978 4 года назад

When literally translated, yes. But “bon ange” is another word for “soul” in French/Haitian Creole. Little soul and big soul.

@SoundFieldPBS 4 года назад

Happy halloween Dr. Z!!!!

@pbsstoried 4 года назад

🧟‍♀️

@mgmcdb7606 4 года назад

Sound Field bought is why I'm here. 😁

@theultraatomicgamer 4 года назад

@@pbsstoried Hello 👋

@helenoftroy9922 3 года назад

@@pbsstoried hi can u make a video are zombies are real

@simonhassnilsson7009 3 года назад

@@pbsstoried "...and ever since the idea of the reanimated corpse facinated me"... FYI Emily if you decide to pull a Frankenstein and you are looking for an assitant (hunch not included) look me up i could use the job, and if not at least publish your findings, i need to take some notes for...research purposes...huh, seems a lot more honest in this context

@dramonmaster222 4 года назад

The Zombie represents people's fear of death gone wrong and I think that is why it is so scary.

@gailcbull 4 года назад

I would say it's the fear of death - period. I'm a cancer survivor. I made peace with my own mortality when I was in my late teens and early 20s and so I never really understood the fascination with zombies. As a writer, I've always thought they were a kind of boring and predictable antagonist because they had no active consciousness. they couldn't plan or act outside of a set of pre-programmed behaviours. But if you still view death as something mysterious and undefinable - in the way people who haven't faced their own mortality do - then zombies become mysterious and frightening instead of boring and predictable.

@MrGksarathy 4 года назад

@@gailcbull I've always found zombies frightening because it involves using someone's corpse against their will and not letting them pass on.

@emilyplunkett6034 4 года назад

It's the fear of death through the uncertainty of plague and illness. I'm usually a fan of these horror concepts and ideas that zombies represent because it can be a total mindfuck and it doesn't have rely on cheap jump scares. At least, I was a fan. I just can't bring myself to watch Night if the Living Dead this year or the Walking Dead. Because, ykno...

@ranimeRAT 4 года назад

@@emilyplunkett6034 Why can't you watch it this year?

@cosmicdoggo9296 4 года назад

I as a kid was a fraid of zombies because i so them as some thing that cant be kiled they just came back it thas not mater what you do and they will get you i played resident evil 2 for the first time when i was 5 years old i was a fraid of a dark for a wile because of them and strange sounds

@wanderinghistorian 3 года назад

"people acknowledge the voodoo before they acknowledge my humanity" That was a powerful statement.

@TheDivinePrince 2 года назад

Thank you kindly! Humbled and Honored in Service. All is a Blessing #RespectTheVoodoo

@renzogallegos5877 Год назад

Yeah. I noticed that too!

@falcoskywolf 8 месяцев назад

@@TheDivinePrince It was so lovely to see them get a sliver- a mere sliver- of the real information from sources who actually understand the history and tradition of Vodou. If only more people put even this much time and effort into understanding. Thank you so much for contributing to this glimpse into a deep and rich spiritual world!

@LooksByNaheemah 3 года назад

As a Haitian, this makes a lot of sense. Many times in our culture people and those who make certain actions are referred to as zombies

@matiasdelgado7011 2 года назад

It´s incredible how the people started to call these creatures as zombies. Romero never thinked in them as ones. For him the zombie was the voodoo monster. He saw his creatures as Ghouls. But for me revenats, draugars, nachzerers, gashadokuros, and other kinds of corporeal walking dead are zombies.

@beatrice123ful Год назад

@@matiasdelgado7011 you off topics

@chromicapop4595 Месяц назад

It’s funny how much the western world muses on zombie history without considering the real life significance of their lore 😂

@heidi64freedom 4 года назад

I love and love and love the fact that you guys always respect the true origin and never shy away from the racial and colonial background of all these stories and it is just the epitome of why I love literature and history so much and gosh as much as I cannot stand horror stories, I love this channel and this zombie series is just gonna be such a light in my October and thank you for being you guys and bringing in such high quality research and explanation on these beloved stories.

@alexvsss 4 года назад

Fun fact: nowadays it is actually against the Law in Haiti to create zombis.

@htoodoh5770 4 года назад

Lol

@MARCIE12ification 4 года назад

That crazy

@das8.kapitel260 4 года назад

Nice

@das8.kapitel260 4 года назад

@@MARCIE12ification The Problem is that people were poisend.

@Torlik11 4 года назад

Fun fact: many countries have weird laws. In Canada, witchcraft was illegal until the end of 2018 (so yes, now you can legaly do withcraft in canada). The USA is also an infinite supply for that kind of thing. For example, in Wisconsin there is a law saying that cheese have to be "highly pleasing".

@jonathan0225 4 года назад

Me: *wondering when zombies will be covered* Storied: Yes yes yes.

@lilweeniehutjunior4294 4 года назад

Is this a jojo reference

@EvernightTown6969 4 года назад

@@lilweeniehutjunior4294 *YES YES YES YES YES*

@Raccon_Detective. 3 года назад

Yare yare daze

@sankarea5745 4 года назад

Imagine to think you are born being a slave until you die and that is the only time you set free from slavery when you die yet they capture your soul even your dead body still being a slave from them. such torture. I think even demons might think twice doing those horrible things

@ogundimu400 4 года назад

In haiti if The voodoo loa of Death baron ghede samedi catches u making a zombie or disrepecting him he would set the soul of the zombies free and turn the bokor into a zombie where he will serve the ghede family(family of the dead/death loas) for eternity in Guinea.(the voodoo after life)

@farkasmactavish 4 года назад

Assuming demons exist...

@KuroNekoKohi 4 года назад

@@ogundimu400 if there is 1 thing I've learned about voodoo, it's dont mess with the baron. Case and point

@muntu1221 4 года назад

Demons in mythology are a lot more malicious than that.

@godwarrior3403 4 года назад

Yeah of demons are real that's the least of the horrors they'd love to unleash haha

@rami_ungar_writer 4 года назад

Despite how American media has treated the Haitian zombi belief, I would still like to see more fictional representations of them. There's fertile ground there, they just need the right storyteller. Not me. I don't think I'm qualified.

@Pleasestoptalkingthanks 4 года назад

Just don’t use massive cliches and you’re already more qualified than most Hollywood directors.

@gerardrbain1972 4 года назад

There is a Marvel character named Jericho Drum aka Brother Voodoo/Dr Voodoo. His brother was mentioned in the Doctor Strange movie.

@the_jujuman5269 3 года назад

There’s so much potential and already exists so much mythology especially in Nigeria

@mathewriedhammer7175 3 года назад

@@the_jujuman5269 im looking for a starting point into learning about this, do you have any good books or videos or characters to start me off?

@TupocalypseShakur 3 года назад

@gerard bain last I checked he was a teacher at Dr. Strange's magic school

@georgemonde8237 4 года назад

My parents are Haiten and they used to tell me they'd see zombies working in peoples yards in the middle of the night

@El__Silbon 3 года назад

That sounds so eerie when I think about it

@239_baby6 3 года назад

But you look like a white guy

@witchplease9695 3 года назад

@@239_baby6 He looks like a light skinned Black man. We come in all shades , ignorant

@stevejacques907 3 года назад

Yes that’s true

@239_baby6 3 года назад

@@witchplease9695 no need to call me ignorant I’m from immokalee Florida a quarter of our population is Haitian I see and interact with and even have some Haitian family members NONE of them are light skinned they are all very dark skinned

@bledi3188 4 года назад

I grew up in Haiti, I remember driving by fields with my grandparents and watching these people work in rice fields day and night, they would just say they are zombies, just don't look After every funeral, families would guard their dead at cemeteries to prevent bokor from trying to raise them, sometimes we would hear them screaming at night while the bokor was whipping them to make them walk back to the fields. Lived by a cemetery so the stuff of nightmares lol Never thought I would see my country on here thanks for making this episode, took me back home.

@MrCmon113 3 года назад

You think someone actually pulled this off?

@footballvision5098 2 года назад

@@MrCmon113 ask him buddy cause I lived there for 11 years and I never saw that

@prettyboypauly4300 Год назад

@@MrCmon113 yes they did

@444Basketball 4 года назад

Tbh I never liked the virus infected flesh-eating version of the zombie. It's so 08/15 for a monster. The original idea of a mindless slave and the horror of losing your free will is much scarier and unique imho

@wompwompana 4 года назад

and it’s a reminder of a real and sickening human history which just makes it more terrifying

@farkasmactavish 4 года назад

What does "08/15" mean? And it's not like myths and fiction haven't been reimagined before, if you're saying that it shouldn't be done.

@444Basketball 4 года назад

@@farkasmactavish It's the 8th out of 15, the middle. Means it's standard, boring, mondane. And of course things get reinvented. Doesn't mean I have to like the new interpretation. Or that it gets better.

@butterskywalker8785 4 года назад

what about Russians in 1915,there were zombies there

@Raccon_Detective. 3 года назад

Agreed I just learned about the og and I like this more

@maynarddanielpalawar959 4 года назад

Here in the Philippines, at least to my provice, we have also a "zombie" like creature called the Amaranhig. It is a tradition during a funeral for the family of the deceased to give out some snacks for a little gratitude for attending the day of the funeral to the people who went to the funeral and it is usually done in a reception area in the cemetary. A report have said that after the funeral, when the people were about to go back to the reception area, the deceased (Amaranhig) was the first one to get there. Kinda spooky

@pauielicious4433 4 года назад

I'm a Filipino and I don't have an idea about this, I hope Monstrum can cover this too.

@maynarddanielpalawar959 4 года назад

@@pauielicious4433 well it's pretty much known in Negros Island (this is not racist, it's really the name of the island where I live, search it up). I think KMJS has covered this story before

@miaozebub 4 года назад

I dont attend funerals much so I cant really say much about this, but dang that is creepy. Never knew we had this!

@maynarddanielpalawar959 4 года назад

@@miaozebub it's a pretty much common story in the rural areas where some of my relatives live and sometimes we had a spooky storytelling at one of our gatherings. And yeah, definitely scary to witness such thing

@MARV1911 4 года назад

hindi ko alam yan.

@Givemepeacealone 4 года назад

SCOOBY DOO on zombie island is one of the best ever scary kids movies!

@lilchip3280 4 года назад

that scared me so much when i was younger

@bobcharlie2337 4 года назад

Yup, a very good movie.

@Josh-tu3pg 4 года назад

Still not as bad as courage the cowardly dog some of thoses eps freak me out still to this day

@mythoughtsexactly2145 4 года назад

I had nightmares for a week after watching it

@SeriouslySalty. 4 года назад

@@Josh-tu3pg courage the cowardly dog to this day still scares me. I have no clue what it is about that show. It’s just creepy

@NewMessage 4 года назад

Waiiiitaminutenow. Zombie... 'Dr. Z'.... Doctor Zombie? * narrows eyes and reached for something sharp *

@suzannestrickland1586 4 года назад

Lol

@cobrachicken07 4 года назад

Reach for something heavy, man. Sharp's just gonna get ya bloody ,😳

@Thessalin 4 года назад

Yes sir that's a capital Z and that rhymes with P and that stands for: PROFESSOR ZOMBIE!!

@TheHornedKing 4 года назад

I see you're a necromancer of culture as well. But seriously, I'm really looking forward to this series.

@Thessalin 4 года назад

I"m kind of a big necromancer myself.

@TheHornedKing 4 года назад

@@Thessalin Best type of magic.

@fangchick93 4 года назад

There’s a reference to something like zombies in the Babylonian myth of Ishtar. A warning that the dead shall rise and devour the living.

@ertfgghhhh 4 года назад

It is all the same spirit. Difft names. Same spirit.

@equesdeventusoccasus 4 года назад

That was the Goddess Inanna's threat to her father Anu. That if she wasn't given the Bull of Heaven to avenge herself on Gilgamesh for spurning her advances, that she would break open the gates to the underworld, resulting in the following: “there will be confusion of people, those above with those from the lower depths. I shall bring up the dead to eat food like the living; and the hosts of the dead will outnumber the living” That might have been the first threat of the zombie apocalypse. Except that she seems to be saying that her undead hordes would be coming for your actual lunch.

@alienalchemist 4 года назад

Ghouls?

@АртурЧугай 4 года назад

As they said, its a three-parter. A guess the other two will be the middle eastern and the slavic miths of undead, sinnce they all heavily influenced the modern zombie.

@equesdeventusoccasus 4 года назад

@Dee Dee Any tale of the gods & goddesses was changed by each nation that followed them. Who begat who is so often changed that I'd be surprised if one didn't end up being called their own grandparent.

@Hjarrun 4 года назад

I was just thinking today "man I could really use a new Monstrum episode!" and then this was uploaded! Lovely. . .

@schemar17 4 года назад

Before the vid starts im from Haiti and people from the West misinterpreted what a zombie is

@animasuperfreakgirl 4 года назад

When you finish the vid I hope you’ll share your thoughts on it.

@angela_merkeI 4 года назад

More like put their own cultural constructs over it with time. Modern grave rising zombies are more akin to draugar, strigoi or other undead from Europe.

@CelestialDraconis 4 года назад

@@angela_merkeI Yep. She even did an episode on the Draugr. I always thought of _that_ as the "first zombie", since nordic myths predated Haitian Vodou.

@Torlik11 4 года назад

@@CelestialDraconis At this point, one could argue that you can find similar kindof undead being in most culture through history. For example, the ghoul from the middle east can be see as an early "zombie" that probably predate the nordic draugr. Point is I think that looking for the "first zombie", zombie being defined as a raised corpse, is impossible because each culture had a similar kind of myth.

@CelestialDraconis 4 года назад

@@Torlik11 I'm more interested in finding the origins of the first zombie that eats flesh/brains, because when people think of zombies now a days, that comes to mind.

@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache 2 года назад

*looks at watch* Well, would you look at that? It's terror time, again.

@andrewb.8184 4 года назад

It's fascinating how much better the idea of the zombies have stuck in the American popular conscious than the undead of European folklore, like draugr or liches

@orilliavail1380 4 года назад

Well, we do have Vampires and Frankenstein’s Monster. Both of those story’s also have an element of the powerful using the poor. Vampires can hypnotise you and Dracula is a Count who as control over peasants. And Frankenstein uses the body’s of people to his own ends, to further his scientific exploration rather then acknowledging their humanity.

@NovaSaber 4 года назад

Mostly it's a poor choice of which word became the most generically used one. Though "lich" comes from American fiction (and was mostly popularized by D&D), not European folklore.

@littlerave86 4 года назад

@@NovaSaber The original works of fiction used the term "lich" simply as corpse (dead or undead). D&D coined the term for its modern interpretation, so the "undead mage" is not a thing of American fiction.

@littlerave86 4 года назад

@@becky7603 I'd say it's mostly the spread of US pop culture after WWII among the NATO countries and hollywood's movie monopoly that spread the zombie movies throughout the world's cinemas and less that it's fresh and new and from far away. The vampire is an equally popular theme and that is ancient European folklore.

@MrCmon113 3 года назад

More like the *name* zombie. Today's zombies behave more like Draugr, Vampires, etc than Haitian Zombies. They aren't helpful, but harmful and aggressive.

@TheStormy1992 3 года назад

I'm haitian and, this is so well written. You got a new subscriber. Thank you for the good research.

@matiasdelgado7011 2 года назад

@ryanwhorf6665 4 года назад

Maybe you can do the jotnar I'm really interested about them just a thought

@andreamaccarrone4169 4 года назад

So does this mean that The Princess and The Frog also wrongly depicts Voodou and Voodoo?

@gerardtay 4 года назад

absolutely.

@psychopathetic5341 4 года назад

I mean Disney doesn't really have the best track record of representation... Pocahontas, Mulan, etc.

@nanamiharuka3269 4 года назад

Media in general like Disney should not be taken to be fact only inspired by fact. They add things for the sake of plot or digestibility for their audience. Coco had this same issue

@satanswife2546 4 года назад

Yes

@satanswife2546 4 года назад

@@psychopathetic5341 that's why they have the remakes, they fixes the problems the former animators made

@ryuukatamura 4 года назад

This is really interesting - the concepts of the ti bon ange and gros bon ange map very closely to the Chinese concepts of Hun and Po - the Hun is the "will," or personality of the person, while the Po is the synchronization between that Hun to the body. When a person dies, the Hun flies out of the body and becomes a ghost, while the Po stays underground in the afterlife with the corpse.

@grapeshot 4 года назад

I'm not really big into zombie movies but I did like that Korean zombie movie Train to Busan and I look forward to watching its sequel The Peninsula.

@Jennifahh 4 года назад

Is available in yify, I wacthed it lastnght and is UTTER TRASH. Nothing like the first one.

@grapeshot 4 года назад

@@Jennifahh Okay thank you. That's a shame.

@003mohamud 4 года назад

The movie #ALIVE is faaaaaaar better. It is on Netflix if you have it.

@angela_merkeI 4 года назад

There's also Kingdom on Netflix, about a zombies in 17th century Korea.

@joselitohernandez1354 4 года назад

Peninsula isn’t utter trash tho for me...it’s a beautiful movie but it’s a stand alone sequel, and it doesn’t continue from the characters in the 1st movie, rather just from its consequences. I cried during the last part tho huhu but of course we all have different opinions

@hyunkwak7851 4 года назад

Didn't know such a sad history was behind voudo / zombi.

@RunningGladeXStray 4 года назад

I’m Afro American, a horror/zombie apocalypse fan, and really curious about vodoo. The intense fear of eternal slavery from my ancestors is heartbreaking, but the compassion in the story with salt was nice to hear. Thank you for this respectful and well researched video!

@matiasdelgado7011 2 года назад

@solidonseraindogthetenth1679 Год назад

So does that mean people's idea of the zombi is inaccurate? Do you know? Or know someone who does know. (I am so sorry for asking in a rude way.)

@AnthonyWLeone 4 года назад

Back in the early 1990s, I told my mother I wanted to be a professor who studied the paranormal and whatnot. She put a "no" to that. You are living the life I wanted for myself! Congrats!

@joeywall4657 4 года назад

Absolutely outstanding content here. This is probably your best episode yet.

@appalachianexploration5714 4 года назад

So false, actually the zombie concept comes originally from Celtic myth. Greeks also had a zombie myth, anglos had zombie myths.. ooh wait that's right EVERY CULTURE HAD ZOMBIE lores.

@yrretgnortsmra8955 3 года назад

That the maker of the movie White Zombie use of those zombies as inspiration or did he use the Haitian ones.

@notimetolive12 3 года назад

If you feed them salt, they go back to their grave... Reminds me of One piece, where they fed the zombies seawater and seafoods to free their souls..

@Vic-pg4rg 4 года назад

They were originally called Ghouls in "Night of the Living Dead". Which is the more appropriate term for the modern-day Zombie. Just look it up.

@h.calvert3165 4 года назад

They're --- all messed up. 😊

@Vic-pg4rg 3 года назад

@ It's to clear up the misconception about what is actually a zombie. They explained it in the next video which is already out.

@MrCmon113 3 года назад

The word "ghoul" doesn't originally describe an undead monster, but a shapeshifter that sometimes feeds on human corpses.

@happeeboy9581 2 года назад

Have you seen 'Get Out'?

@matiasdelgado7011 2 года назад

@@MrCmon113 Hve you ever saw the original Night of the Living Dead?

@DetectiveKemper 4 года назад

The line is, "They're coming to get you, Barbara."

@RictusHolloweye 4 года назад

Lampooned brilliantly in Shaun Of The Dead, that phone conversation with Shaun's mum (Barbara).

@devil5cry 4 года назад

the Winchester?

@h.calvert3165 4 года назад

Done in an imitation of the voice of the great Boris Karloff! Check out his Isle of the Dead if you haven't seen it. Atmospheric, intelligent, subtle --- superb! One of the Master's best! 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️

@marielaveau6362 3 года назад

Johnny stop it, you're ignorant.

@borleyboo5613 4 месяца назад

That is the bloody spookiest scene in any film I’ve ever seen.

@mathmeetsmusic 4 года назад

YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! Watching Dr. Zarka share her passion is exactly what I need right now. Can't wait to see more!

@caseygrimm8704 4 года назад

My dog passed this morning. Kind of ironic this episode came out today.

@alejandroescalante6338 4 года назад

I'm really sorry for your loss 😢

@operleutnant7235 4 года назад

Damn, sorry for you mate

@Alejandroigarabide 4 года назад

I'm really sorry for you! I lost my old and faithful beagle a couple of weeks ago. I really feel your loss.

@proterminator673 3 года назад

The second I saw this comment I thought pet cemetery

@Tareltonlives 4 года назад

Great video. It gets confusing when Vodun, Vodou and Voodoo are separated from each other by thousands of miles and centuries of cultural evolution.

@HighLordSythen 4 года назад

(I voted for Monstrum as my favourite on the PBS Digital Studios survey.)

@pbsstoried 4 года назад

Thank you!

@shaanparwani 4 года назад

@@pbsstoried will u do one about childrens literature as in good books for kids and maybe u can discuss about flabuerts madame bovary and tolstoys anna karenina

@ag20085 4 года назад

@sythen me too !

@capitanflemish 4 года назад

Monstrum Eons and Two cents xD

@HighLordSythen 4 года назад

@@capitanflemish For me it was Monstrum, Eons, and Spacetime (It's Lit being a close 4th). :)

@evilwelshman 4 года назад

I find this a fascinating topic. I wonder if the concept of zombies were always present in West African cultures prior to being brought to Haiti, became more prominent upon being brought to Haiti, or developed after they were brought to Haiti as slaves. If the latter two, it makes the idea of the zombie as an analogy to the slave trade that much more compelling. That said, I am also curious to know how prominent the concept of the zombie is in Vodou - i.e. is it a major aspect of the religion or is it (and I suspect it to be the case) actually a niche aspect that captured Euro-American - and subsequently, the wider global public's - imagination? I ask this because odds are that whenever the subject of Vodou is brought up, it's often in the context of a discussion around zombies; which I feel oversimplifies what looks to be a much more complex culture. Or to put it differently, I think it would be really interesting for the topic to be approached in terms of where zombies fit within the context of Vodou, rather than where Vodou fits within the context of zombies if that makes sense.

@antoniacapellaborges6566 3 года назад

Listen.... there’s 3 DIFFERENT types. The first (and original) is from former Dahomey now Benin->VoDUN The second is Voudou from Haiti (which is an amalgamation of Kongo religion, Ifa from Yoruba and Vodun from Dahomey with Catholicism) And lastly, Voodoo from New Orleans (which fairly deviates from the Haitian one and includes Natives and Southern US traditions) The word Zombie is a bastardization of Zumbi from Nzambi (which means God in Bakongo cosmology)

@dontbfamouscsmusic186 2 года назад

Only people that don’t know nothing will associate Vodou with zombies they aren’t related it’s two different lanes. To raise a person soul and enslave it is evil and Vodou deals with Gods, not enslavement of people. Ayiti aka Haïti is the only people to raise the dead. I heard Africans can’t do it. Certain powers given to people on the land adavanced older spiritual power due to the mixture and necessaries of people and culture. 401 nations is intermingled with our Ancestors rights. Zombies are evil practices of a individual person period. I reckon if Vodou really dealt on this lane myb our people would have more self respect. But even the Vodou our ancestors have it’s faded and corrupted. It’s come to show just how much money white folks make on us no matter what way we turn. Sadly the zombies are the political powered puppets paid by Americans to keep Ayisan as pure zombies.

@UgUg15 4 года назад

Please do more episodes on myths and “monsters” from the Middle East. I would love to see one on creatures like the Roc or the Anqaa and so on.

@luigilake 4 года назад

You should come visit Salem MA and see how the town has embraced its history with witches! (Probably after the pandemic though!)

@LindaC616 3 года назад

I was just there 2 weeks ago with 2 coworkers from other countries. The one from France said something to that effect. They're open for business, just mask up

@raphniamagna2567 4 года назад

I feel like the modern depiction of a zombie is influenced by the Chinese Jiangshi. Jiangshi were both undead, had their arms stretched out and could turn people who are alive into Jiangshi, doesn't that sound familiar to many of the zombies in fiction?

@hamsilog3834 4 года назад

Once the modern zombies start jumping non-stop then I'll agree.

@brenandemossita1000 4 года назад

The original demonstration of zombies were slow , and had no thought or mind. The word zombie is west african. The change in how zombies have been depicted started in the 80s.

@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat 3 года назад

I don't think the depiction is influenced, just a similar concept separately invented. It happens.

@MrCmon113 3 года назад

Yeah, unless there is another undead monster that also has his arms stretched out and turns others into more of it's kind.

@ncapone87 2 месяца назад

@@MrCmon113Frankenstein's monster is another undead creature with outstretched arms

@lisaheisey6168 4 года назад

My mom & dad let me watch horror movies, starting when I was 3 years old. I've always considered it smart parenting, on their part. They started me off early and I grew up loving horror movies and all things "spooky" and never had nightmares about the things I saw. I think, by watching them along with my parents, it didn't allow those things to install fear in me.

@marielaveau6362 3 года назад

well I didn't watch them with my parents and I went on to have nightmares. But still I love them.

@zebimicio5204 3 года назад

i literally watched a video of recue mission where they're trying to find a person who have been missing for days after they were bathin in the river I thik (didn't remember the details). There, they found a croc and killed it cause it was suspected to ate the man. They pretty much open up the stomach of the croc and they found the remains of the man still digested. this was all in the video that was hook up to the tv my caretacker was watching. I was around 8-10 that time lmao.

@vibewithvalerie8018 3 года назад

other young kids used the quote "zombie on the earth"

@Rockapella66 4 года назад

I'm so excited for this series! I'm also fascinated by zombies and I had the opportunity to write a paper about them in college. They continue to be my favorite movie/TV monster. To me, they are the most human of monsters and, in many ways, embody our worst fears. I love zombies! P.S. I cited Dr. Coleman's book in my paper, so it was really cool to hear her talk about zombies.

@Givemepeacealone 4 года назад

Of course the term “zombie” originates from voo-doo but there has been tales of the rotting dead coming back to life in multiple religions for thousands of years... it’s not a unique idea..

@EdslilNeko 4 года назад

I mean, I think that's kinda the point of the whole series. This video is looking at the history of the common term for the risen undead, but the pop culture idea of a zombie is definitely an amalgamation of a bunch of different ideas from multiple cultures.

@gerardtay 4 года назад

this is just one episode dude

@elolong 4 года назад

I wishj I can have a PhD. In whatever passion I had when I was a child. That's Soooo COOL

@elolong 4 года назад

@Raisy Rosye mythology, legends, magic, fairytales these kind of stuff

@elolong 3 года назад

@Raisy Rosye TKS 💙 I'll try to get on that direction

@elolong 3 года назад

@Raisy Rosye TKS 💙💙

@jamesneff3795 4 года назад

The original mention of "zombies," aka the risen dead is far older than West Africa. If you look at The Epic of Gilgamesh, (the oldest written myth) Ishtar, goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and war, threatens to break the gates of the underworld and allow the dead to devour the living. Sounds like zombies to me. The term "zombie" comes from Haitian zombi, which is a distortion of the West African zumbi, which means an idol or religious fetish. (I was bored a couple years ago and tried to find the origin of the undead in mythology. Fascinating stuff.)

@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat 3 года назад

@@vr5076 nor can we say the two weren't independently developed. Cultural influence is certainly a possibility, but it's always possibility the two developed separately.

@marcelogoncalvesdocouto4080 3 года назад

@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat Agree. If you think in a way, basically all cultures have some kind of mith about the living dead, I guess it's just part of the curiosity and existential anxiety we all share about death and what may or may not come after that.

@GDIEternal 3 года назад

James Neff, you talk a lot but don’t know what you’re talking about...at all.

@MrCmon113 3 года назад

@@marcelogoncalvesdocouto4080 Not so much anxiety about your own death, but anxiety about something refusing to die. Or seeming to have died and coming back. People seem to have really feared their relatives not dying.

@LindaC616 3 года назад

@@MrCmon113 check out the short novel "Handling the Undead"

@equesdeventusoccasus 3 года назад

You misrepresented Seabrook who was a rationalist who wrote his books about people around the world and at home who held beliefs in magic. He didn't try to say that all nor even most followers of Vodoun were involved in zombies. Quite frankly he stated the opposite that most wanted nothing to do with the practice and that only one small group took up the practice of making zombies. If you have a copy of the book that does not contain the author's notes, you should really get a copy that has them. They are worth reading. Also I am surprised that you didn't mention the girl and the goat, as that would possibly fit into the narrative of your video.

@perfectionistfranz 3 года назад

Thank you for discerning the difference between voodoo and vodou. I did not know that! It's great to have people who have that expertise and someone who practices it as well. I really like this series and you are fun to watch. You're doing a great job!

@halee9888 4 года назад

In the Philippines we also have zombie, we call them Amalanhig...

@random_user1014 3 года назад

Thats a vampire not a zombie

@matiasdelgado7011 2 года назад

@@random_user1014 Romero ripped off a vampire novel (I am Legend), but the people called his creatures as zombis when they were undead ghuls.

@Severd666 4 года назад

My 8 year old daughter and I just watched Night of the Living Dead a couple weeks ago 🎃🖤

@ihcfn 4 года назад

Is it just me or is this a bit less tongue in cheek due to Dr Z's love of the topic. Either way, great video again!

@My6119 4 года назад

Why are zombies described as vegetables

@TroublingPath 4 года назад

Any chance we could get a video on the pishtaco or kharisiri? Colonial influence on monsters is fascinating.

@sentineloforder 4 года назад

The thought of an undead that looks alive but is both mute and lifeless is by far more terrifying than zombies we think of today. Instead of those seeking human flesh to satisfy their hunger which we view today they are more of a human puppet that is used for personal needs under the dark of night... But still, that is pretty cool that it was managed to be conjured by fiction or even made real.

@theguyishere249 4 года назад

I love this show its awesome. Could you do an episode on succubus and incubus.

@IftiAlam1999 4 года назад

Thank God. Another Monstrum episode.

@trudy101 4 года назад

I never heard of this version of zombies before. I like it better than the Walking Dead version.

@lissettem4509 4 года назад

THERE ARE STILL ZOMBIES IN HAITI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@PopSmokeAura 4 года назад

Fr tho!

@angelicaa3597 4 года назад

Thank you for this amazing video: I'm really looking forward to the next installments! It was incredibly interesting and mind opening... I especially loved the insights from the experts you interviewed. I will admit my ignorance and that as a European I had absolutely no idea that the origin of the zombi tradition came from Haiti and West African culture. I can't underestimate how humbling this revelation was. Thank you for your hard work and for your passion for what you do, which really shines through every topic you cover. You are a role model for women all around the world doctor ❤️

@daneroberts1996 4 года назад

Ok, but Scooby Doo on Zombie Island was the only Scooby Doo story to actually frighten me. When I first watched it as a young kid I couldn't even finish it, and had to come back to it years later

@Satan-nw4lv 4 года назад

Ikr especially when the gang figured out that they're real zombies

@hatguy8225 4 года назад

Furry cats eat souls and make people zombies. Ah!

@Raccon_Detective. 3 года назад

Agreed

@Splexsychiick 3 года назад

Now I want to listen to the song they played while being chased by zombies during scooby doo and the zombie island. I do t remember the words but I remember liking the sing very much.

@Slothi_Deathi 4 года назад

today we found out Emily plays as necromancer on Dungeons and Dragons

@stevevondoom4140 4 года назад

or a cleric of the death domain. ;)

@oucyan 4 года назад

I'll be a bit upset if you don't touch upon the Jiang Shi at some point, since they're basically just the Chinese version of the Zombi.

@matiasdelgado7011 2 года назад

@amatatas 4 года назад

Just plant a lot of gatling peas and giant wallnuts.

@josephdanieljirehdimacali4418 4 года назад

Darn u for tellin their secret.

@twstf8905 4 года назад

Haha Voodoo Witch Doctors arguing on social media platforms about what language their various disparate sects are allowed to use, and which has the "true" version or denomination lol define; "Absurdity." 🤣

@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat 3 года назад

Not much more ridiculous than catholics arguing the same thing.

@arronmalt 3 года назад

I mean yeah I knew zombie lore came from black people but I never and I know everyone I know doesn't watch zombie movies and start unconsciously blaming black people that's stretch. I'm liberal but that got me!

@johnopalko5223 4 года назад

"Making sense of 2020." Good luck with that...

@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat 3 года назад

I come from the future and while some things are arguably slightly better I do have one thing to say: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH".

@Luke-fu5co 4 года назад

Once again, Dr Z educates the masses THE UNDEAD MASSES oooOOOOoOH

@toolazy3066 3 года назад

“Zombies can be broken down” ooh i know ive been watching a lot of the walking dead I know she said zombies can be broken down by 3 different types

@grahamcann1761 4 года назад

A nod to one of my favorite Zombies, played by (the great (I think) actor) Noble Johnson in 1940's "The Ghost Breakers" starring Bob Hope. I guess that was what you'd call a "Haitian Zombie." As always thank you so very much for your videos.

@h.calvert3165 4 года назад

Hats off to Noble Johnson & all the other character actors of film history. Movies wouldn't be as rich without them. They didn't get the plaudits given to the big stars, but I honour them & am grateful for their fine work. Glad to see this shout-out. Thank you. 👏

@TheLadyKiel 4 года назад

thank you for actually talking to BLACK practitioners, there's a lot of people who'll go to Louisiana & Haiti and yet search out the white practitioners, not saying they can't practice or believe but to give credit to black practitioners is something important because it came from those people. And, to go to a prodominant black place and yet search out white counterparts. It can offend them and they can feel as if their ancestors aren't honored.

@MrCmon113 3 года назад

Yeah I'm super annoyed when people want to talk to Christians, but they don't seek out a Greek.

@TheDivinePrince 2 года назад

Thank you kindly! Humbled and Honored in Service. All is a Blessing #RespectTheVoodoo

@erinmalone2669 Год назад

As a foster parent of a severely abused child, I have seen the fear silence and shut down expression. I interpret the zombification of being dead inside, and just going through the motions because of abuse and isolation. People in America would refer to themselves as being a zombie. If they got into work, didn’t have coffee, didn’t feel like their brains were turned on, but their body was still going through the motions without any emotion. Drudgery because of your circumstance. I’m sure the trauma of enslavement would Break you emotionally.

@kenster8270 3 года назад

2:20 The French tricolore shown on this map was only flown in Saint-Domingue during the final two decades up until the Haitian Revolution. Prior to that, it was the royal banner that was flown throughout the French colonial empire.

@paulclalchungnunga2052 2 года назад

( Leave your comment in English ) Actually Zombies , Goblins, Ogres, Monsters , Dragons, Aliens ET , Bigfoot ,Demons , UFO , Devils , Fairies , Ghosts, Mermaids etc are all Fallen Angels . But the human spirit exclusively belongs to the human - alive or dead tbh What do ye say guys ?

@johndemeritt3460 4 года назад

My wife remembered the Babylon 5 episode "Soul Hunter" from season 1 in which a renegade priest comes to the station collecting the souls of important people before they could be lost. He collects them in a glass globe that seemed very reminiscent of spirit bottles. Interesting connection?

@brandondavidson4085 3 года назад

I'm really surprised/disappointed the video didn't mention how much cocaine Caribbean slaves were forced to ingest. This is where we get the myth of the "aggressive, angry black man" stereotype from.

@Armphid 4 года назад

I like how deep this is going! Excited to see the whole series, even if I am, personally, very bored with zombies in media.

@mathieuleader8601 3 года назад

Papa Doc the dictator of Haiti was feared to have comeback as a zombie after he died also it was rumoured he had a private army of zombies

@yokhawanha 4 года назад

The origin actually really really sad, i wonder what happened if the "slavery" never happened, i just want to see how the world if that never happened, like what if theres only one religion in this world, how the world history will change? I really like to imagine alternative universe haha, like what if the word human was not a human, what people gonna called a "human" in that world hahah, "what if" actually a strong word for imagination

@brunomilocchi3897 4 года назад

I don't think that this story is all that relevant to zombies. Yes, the corpse that reanimates is a big part of it, but that alone isn't enough. The idea of reanimation is one of the oldest in civilization. Zombies were born with Romero : dead people, infected with some unknown substance, rising and going around eating people. That's the starting point.

@AFilipinoGuyfromsyears 4 года назад

woah, i was waiting for this.... Thank you #Storied for noticing my suggestion 😅👍 @Storied i hope you'll do a episode about Samhain the origin of Halloween as Holloween special.

@Lady.Tijuri 3 года назад

yes, tht information/knowledge is very dangerous & can't, won't, & shouldn't be discussed so easily.

@annvictor9627 4 года назад

Hope you'll mention the fact that the Comics Code Authority banned using the word "zombie," so during the 1970s Marvel Comics used the word "zuvembie" instead (you may read Robert E. Howard's "Pigeons From Hell" at Project Gutenberg, and its TV adaptation is one of my favorite episodes of the old "Thriller" show).