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Prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse (Part 3) : Maintenance
So now that you’ve started training physically and practicing with your weapon/weapons of choice, it’s important not to lose sight of the regular care that your body and weapons need in order to maintain optimum functionality. Establishing good habits now will only make things easier when walking dead come trick-or-treating in your neighborhood.
Read More >>>Prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse (Part 2) : Weaponry
Now that you’ve started to hone your body into a weapon, let’s go to the next step and talk about what to do with the actual weapons you may be interested in using. Becoming adept with a firearm or confident with an edged weapon isn’t going to happen overnight.
Read More >>>Prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse (Part 1) : Training Your Body
When things start to fall apart, that’s probably not the most opportune time to start getting in shape. You want to have the physical tools ready and at your disposal with the hopes you’ll never need to use them. So where do you start?
Read More >>>Zombie Proof Safe Houses
Back in 2011, there was a zombie safe house competition where they featured the best ideas for safe-house protection from zombies. In my honest opinion, the best protection you could give yourself is just by having the basics: shelter free of zombies, weapons, an escape route, and an energy source. Still, these are some cool unique ideas that are fun to check out.
Read More >>>Recorded Zombie Attacks
This is a list of all zombie attacks throughout history in the book The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. Each link will take you to Zombiepedia.
Read More >>>Zombie Survival Tip: Know Your Zombies
In the first part of the Zombie Survival Tips: Before the Apocalypse, I reviewed the types of zombies one is likely to encounter. In this second edition, I will take you through them in more detail. Reviewing the movies from the “See them in” sections will help you spot these types of zombies more quickly and be more familiar with their likely actions.
Read More >>>Where the Chewing Began
George A. Romero’s work is the first notable use of the zombie as an explicit comparison to a human consumer-driven society, and therefore his work – and not the origin of the fictional zombie itself – begins the canon.
Read More >>>Zombie Survival Tips: Before the Apocalypse
What do you need in a post-apocalyptic zombie survival situation? Well, actually, having a survival kit for any emergency also provides most of the material needed in a zombie-based situation. Check out the CDC emergency preparedness page and the main page of this website for survival kit inventory.
Read More >>>Zombies: A Scientific and Psychological Approach
Written by Kevin Volkan and Neil Rocklin
Originally published in Bizarre Behavior blog on September 28, 2011. Special thanks to Kevin for allowing us to repost!
Zombie Origins
In order to understand zombies it is important to know their origins. Here I would like to trace our conception of zombies back to Haiti and Africa, explain the ‘original’ zombie types, look at how these zombies come into being, and how they are used. I will conclude with a discussion on the psychology of zombies.
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