Scientists Once Scanned the Brains from Three Suspected Zombie
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Furthermore, the authors of the study described a 26-year-old man who was seen at a local cockfight 19 months after being buried. The man's uncle was later found guilty of using witchcraft to make the man into a zombie, who was then chained to a log at his parents' home.
Again, clinical examination yielded no supernatural findings, and the man was diagnosed with 'organic brain syndrome and epilepsy'.
More importantly, DNA tests revealed that he was not a long-dead person, undermining his claims of being a zombie.
In a similar case, a 31-year-old woman was identified as a villager who had been dead for 13 years. Yet again, medical examinations revealed that she was still very much human while genetic analysis showed that she was not a deceased individual.
Considering these last two examples, the study authors concluded that the misidentification of a wandering, mentally ill, stranger by grieving relatives was the most likely explanation. Of course, they would have gotten away with it if not for the meddling researchers.