Zombies didn’t start with brains, viruses, or apocalyptic gunfights—they started with fear, control, and the loss of autonomy. In this episode of Some Topic, two dangerously underqualified individuals descend headfirst into the real origins of zombies, tracing them from Haitian Vodou and colonial trauma to Hollywood’s flesh-eating spectacle. What begins as a horror discussion quickly becomes a philosophical, historical, and deeply unhinged exploration of what zombies actually represent.

We unpack how zombies originally symbolized spiritual enslavement rather than death itself. Rooted in Haiti under brutal French colonial rule, the zombie myth reflected the lived reality of forced labor, loss of identity, and the terror of existing without free will—even after death. Bokars, Vodou practitioners often misunderstood by outsiders, play ...