To get you ready for the return of The Walking Dead, how about some stories of the undead from the news? And maybe a cannibal or two? These are what you call "ripped from the headlines," because truth is stranger than fiction. An inordinate number of them come from China.
Not all of China’s zombie occurrences are vicious bloody attacks, though, sometimes they involve sweet old ladies who just want to cook you a homemade meal. Li Xiufeng was 95 when she fell and suffered a head injury that left her laying in bed. The elderly woman was found by a neighbor who couldn’t wake her up and apparently thought “I’m not a doctor, but this lady’s obviously dead.” The neighbor had the woman’s body placed in a coffin where she was to remain for several days before burial in order to abide by local Chinese customs. Thankfully, the woman came to just one day before her funeral and climbed out of her casket when nobody was around. The woman was later found cooking because she was feeling hungry — as being dead for several days will do to a person. “After waking up, I felt so hungry, and wanted to cook something to eat,” said Xiufeng. If being declared dead and shoved into a coffin wasn’t bad enough, the poor lady woke up to find that her neighbor had destroyed or given away all of her stuff because that’s what the tradition called for. Worst. Neighbor. Ever.
Read the rest of the stories all together at Uproxx. Then you can tell them to your loved ones one at a time. Right before bed.
JUST WHAT WAS SHE COOKING, AFTER LEAVING HER COFFIN?