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<v Speaker 1>Unsolved mysteries. Truth is stranger than fiction. We are endeavoring

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<v Speaker 1>to bring to you little known mysteries of the entire world.

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<v Speaker 1>And in this series of unexplained true happenings, we cannot

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<v Speaker 1>overlook the puzzling and weird practices found in Voodooism. There

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<v Speaker 1>are strange stories of zombies, stories which kills are into

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<v Speaker 1>the world of everyday life, leaving no room for doubt

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<v Speaker 1>that within the cult of Buddhism. In it zombies do exist.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I sco nothing happen for something and.

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<v Speaker 1>The scene is glamorous. At a few miles from Porto Prance,

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<v Speaker 1>a long, low, rambling bungalow, bathed in the liquid beams

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<v Speaker 1>of a silver moon, faces the open sea. Behind the

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<v Speaker 1>cape rises in serid ridges of blacks and purples, and

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<v Speaker 1>beyond that saintly ominous. The deep, constant rhythm of the

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<v Speaker 1>voodoo drums seems to belong to another world. Three men

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<v Speaker 1>sit on the lanai or veranda, facing the beach. One

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<v Speaker 1>of them tall, slender, young in years, but with gray

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<v Speaker 1>hair and blind face, stares out into nothing. The elderly

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<v Speaker 1>man by his side looks at the third and raises

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<v Speaker 1>bushy eyebrows the third man, a stranger to a t

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<v Speaker 1>speaks very decent of you, fellows to invite me out here.

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<v Speaker 1>I sort of feel that hell that I'm putting you

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<v Speaker 1>to a lot of extra work. Lot of better servants

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<v Speaker 1>take care of all the extra work. We're glad of

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<v Speaker 1>your company, pluck yestrong. I'm going down there. You must, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>but don't belong. I won't, but don't wait up for me.

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<v Speaker 1>Good night, good night night. In a moment, after Strong's

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<v Speaker 1>out of hearing, I'll be able to explain that's all right,

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<v Speaker 1>I think I understand. Just a minute, I'll look down

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<v Speaker 1>the pathway. Yes, he's gone all right. In spite of

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<v Speaker 1>what he said, we can't turn in. Although you're a

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<v Speaker 1>stranger here. I'm going to do what white men have

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<v Speaker 1>to do in the tropics. I'm going to ask for

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<v Speaker 1>your help if I need it. You won't have to ask, Quice.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't think so. That's why I asked you at

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<v Speaker 1>the hotel if you'd like to come off to our place.

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<v Speaker 1>A few moments ago. You said you thought you understood. Yes.

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<v Speaker 1>I know, of course, as it was just a.

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<v Speaker 3>Year ago to day that Strong's wife died.

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<v Speaker 1>I was in New York at the time, and we

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<v Speaker 1>were all very much upset. I never knew Strong, but

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<v Speaker 1>I went to school with his wife, Helen, and I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't because of his wife's death that I want you tonight,

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<v Speaker 1>because of what happened after her death. After her death, Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>do you know where Strong went?

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<v Speaker 4>Just now?

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<v Speaker 1>He went down to her grave, because he has every

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<v Speaker 1>night for six months, Am good heavens? Why That's what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to explain. When Strong first came out here,

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<v Speaker 1>he had a native servant girl, Clarissima. Her name was

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<v Speaker 1>attractive little thing, and she fell in love with Strong.

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<v Speaker 1>Strong never gave her a thought, but you know native women,

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<v Speaker 1>of course. Well, Helen came out here and the night

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<v Speaker 1>before their marriage they were sitting just about here of

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<v Speaker 1>a verandah, oh, Johnny, it's too grehend to be here

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<v Speaker 1>with you.

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<v Speaker 4>Then?

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<v Speaker 3>What do you think it is for me, deling, to

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<v Speaker 3>have you here in my arms, to know that tomorrow

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<v Speaker 3>you'll be mine?

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<v Speaker 1>Forever? Darling? Yes, Johnny, forever.

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<v Speaker 3>When I think of the nights I've sat out here

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<v Speaker 3>dreaming watching the ships sailing for the States, and then

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<v Speaker 3>other nights when I've watched these seen steamers come into

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<v Speaker 3>the harbor and tried to imagine what you'd look like

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<v Speaker 3>standing there on the deck coming out to me. Did

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<v Speaker 3>your dream come true to you? Did you find me changed?

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<v Speaker 1>Little James?

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<v Speaker 3>Dear spelling, but better than a thousand dreams. So welcome

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<v Speaker 3>at luck Dot. Time for little girls to be in bed,

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<v Speaker 3>especially when they're going to be married in the morning.

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<v Speaker 1>I hate to think of driving you out of your bungalow,

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<v Speaker 1>even for one night. I could just as easily state

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<v Speaker 1>at the one time. Oh not a bit of it, Dear.

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<v Speaker 3>It'll take me less than five minutes to walk down

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<v Speaker 3>to Clark's place. Good night, Dear, goodnight John, John.

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<v Speaker 1>Larissima, What on earth are you doing here at this

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<v Speaker 1>time of night? Why aren't you home with your father?

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<v Speaker 3>I have been watching you.

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<v Speaker 1>You've been watching me, You and the woman. What's the

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<v Speaker 1>matter with you? What's come over you? What business have

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<v Speaker 1>you watching us? I have every business. You belong to me.

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<v Speaker 1>I have belonged to you. What rubbish is this? You're talking?

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<v Speaker 1>No rubbish, John, You have belonged to me since that

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<v Speaker 1>night that the Polka placed his spell upon him. Have

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<v Speaker 1>you been drinking clarisma? You know I do not drink. John,

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<v Speaker 1>If you marry this woman. I tell you something.

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<v Speaker 3>In three months she will be dead.

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<v Speaker 1>Though now listen to Larissima. I am not afraid of

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<v Speaker 1>your bow oars, your voodoos, or you're a wanger. I

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<v Speaker 1>have told you marry that woman, and before the setting

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<v Speaker 1>of the third moons, she will be dead. Clarisamaus spoke

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<v Speaker 1>the truth. Before the third moon had set, Helen was dead.

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<v Speaker 1>In his grief, John gave no thought of her prophecy,

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<v Speaker 1>gave no thought to the warning that the wangor spell

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<v Speaker 1>of the book or had been placed upon her. Clark,

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<v Speaker 1>John Strong's friend came to live with him, and one afternoon, Strong,

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<v Speaker 1>arriving home earlier than usual, came up the veranda steps

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<v Speaker 1>in time to hear Clark talking to one of the

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<v Speaker 1>native servants. I'll carry it to you. Must. I have

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<v Speaker 1>heard it too many times. It's nonsense longer just jungle talk,

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<v Speaker 1>native rubbish. No must many times before a white man,

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<v Speaker 1>he say rubbish. But me, Loma. He sees Zumbie, not

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<v Speaker 1>one zombie, not two, but many zombies worked back there

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<v Speaker 1>in Sugarcane, but not a white woman, Loma. No one

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<v Speaker 1>ever to follow this Clark or we were just talking,

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<v Speaker 1>didn't hear you come in. I know you didn't, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, old man, but I listened. Oh yes, I listened.

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<v Speaker 1>I know you were talking about Helen. Now what was

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<v Speaker 1>they called? Just jungle nonsense, so nothing to even think about.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll be the best judge of that. Tell me Loma. No, no, Master,

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<v Speaker 1>If Master understand, he show Alona all comes frong. You're

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<v Speaker 1>making a puzzle and not Loma. Yes, must I ever

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<v Speaker 1>beat you? Hell mush time going to Loma. Beat you

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<v Speaker 1>till you can't stand. If you don't tell Nelson John,

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<v Speaker 1>this is no way to behave I tell you you

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<v Speaker 1>come with me and I'll explain. Come where, Come along

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<v Speaker 1>and I'll show you. Together. The two men leave the bungalow. Loma,

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<v Speaker 1>his eyes filled with tears, stands at the top of

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<v Speaker 1>the Lani steps and watches them disappear into the underbrush

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<v Speaker 1>down toward the sea. Clark leads the way, his set

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<v Speaker 1>jaw the only answer to Strong's question for at this

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<v Speaker 1>pathway doesn't lead any place except for the cemetery. I

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<v Speaker 1>know that's where they're going. What in Heaven's names it

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<v Speaker 1>all about? Why don't you tell me? I want to

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<v Speaker 1>prove that the whole thing is nonsense. Before I I

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<v Speaker 1>thought you are my friend. I'm friend enough to want

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<v Speaker 1>to save your reason. Oh there's an open grave. Go ahead,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to get that paid. Clark Clark. What Helen's

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<v Speaker 1>grave it's been opened? What her grave? Clark, it's been opened.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll fight out in a minute. Now stand back while

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<v Speaker 1>I do. Let me talk, let me know.

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<v Speaker 4>In order to be yet, Clark Clark, the casket's gone.

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<v Speaker 4>These devils have taken her.

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<v Speaker 1>By Helen for the dynable voodoo, No John, no Bomby.

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<v Speaker 1>At breakneck speed, the two men race back to their bungalow.

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<v Speaker 1>Loma from the Veranda season coming up the pathway and

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<v Speaker 1>runs to meet them. In silence, Clark points to the

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<v Speaker 1>brush and Loma and the lead breaks into the thick

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<v Speaker 1>tropic growth. Dusk finds them struggling up the steep slopes

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<v Speaker 1>of the cape with that energy born of forensic fear

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<v Speaker 1>and snameless horror. Loma holds up his hand. In the

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<v Speaker 1>strained silence, the men listened to the sharp crack of

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<v Speaker 1>cane knives on stalks of cain. The crackling of falling

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<v Speaker 1>kane leaves Loma motions storm to come forward. He forces

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<v Speaker 1>aside the sugar cane and stares horror stricken into the

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<v Speaker 1>clearing hell him coll him, tell him horrible clock, ghastly story.

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<v Speaker 1>You understand now why John acts as he does, and

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<v Speaker 1>why I wanted you hear some friense. She was buried alive. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>she wasn't buried alive. She wasn't dead as she was dead.

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<v Speaker 1>She was a zombie, a dead person raised from the grave,

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<v Speaker 1>the body without mining or soul.

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<v Speaker 4>It's impossible, That's.

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<v Speaker 1>What I said to No. Helen was dead, killed by

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<v Speaker 1>the curse bought on her like Clarismal's jealous hatred, and

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<v Speaker 1>raised from the grave to be a zombie by the

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<v Speaker 1>same who do it them? That killed? Yes, clarisamore, what

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<v Speaker 1>happened to her? The natives killed and Helen? You you

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<v Speaker 1>buried her? A Gama had a salt. Salt, Yes, salt.

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<v Speaker 1>His zombies eat anything containing salt. They returned to their

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<v Speaker 1>graves in peace. And you fed her salt. Yes, she

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<v Speaker 1>crumpled up at our feet dead, really dead. Out of

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<v Speaker 1>deference to people who are still alive, character names in

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<v Speaker 1>these unsolved mysteries have been changed inasmuch as any solution

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<v Speaker 1>must have necessity, be supposition. Liberties of time, place, and

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<v Speaker 1>character exist in the solution that will be presented after

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<v Speaker 1>you have heard from your sponsor at.

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<v Speaker 2>The focal point.

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<v Speaker 1>Ladies and gentlemen, the solution for which you've been waiting,

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<v Speaker 1>Have you really a reasonable explanation of how such a

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<v Speaker 1>thing could have happened? I'll answer that by asking you

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<v Speaker 1>a question. Do you think that any explanation of such

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<v Speaker 1>a ghastly affair could be classified as reasonable? No? I

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<v Speaker 1>suppose not. But it happened, and so I say, how

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<v Speaker 1>could it happen the first place? Don't imagine this is

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<v Speaker 1>an isolated case. So serious is the matter of zombies

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<v Speaker 1>in the island of Haiti that the government has been

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<v Speaker 1>compelled to pass the following law. Article two forty nine

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<v Speaker 1>of the Court Canal of the Republic of had also

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<v Speaker 1>shall be qualified as attempted murder the employment which may

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<v Speaker 1>be made against any person of substances which, without causing

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<v Speaker 1>actual death, produces a lethargic chma more or less prolonged.

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<v Speaker 1>If after the administration of such substances the person has

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<v Speaker 1>been buried, the acts shall be considered murdered, no matter

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<v Speaker 1>what the result of follows. Then the government thinks that

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<v Speaker 1>these zombies of people who have been poisoned and who

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<v Speaker 1>have been certified as dead and buried while in the

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<v Speaker 1>state of suspended animation. I mean that they have been

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<v Speaker 1>given a poison that kills the brain but leaves their

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<v Speaker 1>motor faculties unimpaired. Between you and me, I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>that the government really believes that. But after all, how

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<v Speaker 1>would you try to fame a law against taking corpses

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<v Speaker 1>out of their grades and making them work in the

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<v Speaker 1>cane field? Yes? I see the difficulty there, but just

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<v Speaker 1>the same I don't see how even Buddhism can make

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<v Speaker 1>a corpse walk. Have you ever heard of inanimate objects

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<v Speaker 1>being moved by the power of mind? And isn't it

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<v Speaker 1>possible as the same worker in black magic or Buddhism

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<v Speaker 1>that kills a person by power of mine could take

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<v Speaker 1>that inanimate object to the corpse and make it move.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you believe that? Yes? And I'll give you the

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<v Speaker 1>final proof, at least my way of thinking.

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<v Speaker 4>What is that?

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<v Speaker 1>The fact that the natives themselves killed Clarisma, the native girl,

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<v Speaker 1>because they knew that were the assistance of the witch doctors.

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<v Speaker 1>She killed and made a zombie house of Helen