You might have read my popular post called “As California burns, I still fear Zombies”
If not, check it out.

Anyways, there’s an article from Dispatch Online, a South African newspaper, about a man that was thought to be dead for about 8 years and suddenly found walking about his hometown, as if in a daze. This news story resembles the post the post that I wrote about the zombification process in voodoo rituals and the story of Clairvius Narcisse.

Check out today’s news story:

HUNDREDS of people have walked long distances to Hluleka in the Transkei this week to hear a minibus taxi driver who claims he returned from the dead eight years after he was buried.

The true facts of how Nkosinathi Ntsente, 39, was supposedly shot dead in taxi violence and publicly buried, and was then found wandering around a village eight years later remains a mystery.

Ntsente himself tells a story that is filled with mysticism, but comes no closer to explaining what happened.

Ntsente’s supposed “resurrection” has spread like a wildfire through Transkei, drawing crowds to his homestead.

From the early hours of the morning until late, he keeps repeating his story of how he was forced to survive on human blood, sorghum and wild berries while living in the forest.

“I’m tired of telling the same story, the whole day, every day,” he said.

It was believed Ntsente had been shot dead in 2001 during taxi-related violence between the Ncedo and Border taxi associations.

Ntsente claims the gunmen were in white minibus taxi – and that he saw it all happening. “During the shooting I saw myself standing on another side watching a person who resembled me being shot in the forehead, right knee stomach and spine.”

Ntsente said his badly injured “duplicate” was taken to St Barnabas Hospital in Libode . “I witnessed this person dying. The body was taken to the hospital’s mortuary where (it was) cut open to remove internal organs before it was kept in a fridge.”

Ntsente claims he even witnessed his night vigil and funeral and was then taken by “four female witches” to a dark forest where he met “lots of other abducted people”.

“We mostly drank blood and ate izinsipa (used sorghum) and wild berries. I was released after witches said I was too powerful for them to make me do evil things,” he said.

The news of his “awakening” broke on March 23 when his uncle, Washington Qalingoma, 59, and his elderly mother Mabhikani Ntsente found him wandering the streets in Ngqeleni and took him home.

Qalingoma said he believed Ntsente had been abducted, but could not explain why a funeral had been held. “It would be up to his father’s family to decide whether or not to open the grave in order to see what is inside the coffin,” said Qalingoma.

Mabhikani said she was only interested in taking care of her son: “I’m only happy that I have my son again after I had buried his body.”

On Monday, local minibus taxi owners threw a party at the Hluleka taxi rank to celebrate Ntsente’ s “return from the death”.

His old friend Duma Ndzendze said people in the local taxi industry were still celebrating. “We are going to support him until he fully recovers,” he said. “Right now his mind does not sound stable.” – By BONGANI HANS, Mthatha Bureau.

BACK AT HOME: Nkosinathi Ntsente, of Hluleka near Mqanduli, who was believed to have been shot dead during taxi violence eight years ago but was found wandering in the area by his mother and uncle last week. Picture: LULAMILE FENI

Full source: Dispatch Online

This story is unique. Unique in a sense that it is not really related to Zombies from Haiti or under a Voodoo spell, but rather of a man that was known to have died and then come back after 8 years of being buried.

In all honesty, this sounds more like a case of mistaken identity. Given that fact that Nkosinathi Ntsente said that he had witnessed his own autopsy is a red flag for this whole case being suspect.

I do believe in the possibility of there being a “zombie potion” that can cause people to be in a coma-like induced state of mind.

As far as a person dying and going through an autopsy, certified by doctors and buried. Then 8 years later the person coming back to life…..I think there is more to this story.