zombies posts
by Jessica Festa (RSS feed) (4 months ago)
Oct 3rd, 2011 at 2:00PM: Adventure-lovers and zombie-enthusiasts will be excited to hear about a new zombie infested obstacle course coming to the United States this Fall. Like any other obstacle course event, such as Warrior Dash or Spartan Race, Run for Your Lives will include man-made challenges (12, to be exact) as well as tests of physical fitness. This obstacle course in particular will involve mud, water, climbing, ...
by Mike Barish (RSS feed) (9 months ago)
May 16th, 2011 at 6:30PM:
People like to argue over the best time to visit places. You'll hear plenty of people recommend Paris in the spring, wax poetic on the Alaskan winter and suggest New England in autumn. For our money, however, it's all about Columbus, Ohio during the zombie apocalypse. Columbus hosted it's seemingly annual Zombie Walk this past weekend. It's hard to tell what's happening in this video, but it ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Oct 28th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
In order to promote the new show The Walking Dead on AMC, swarms of zombies invaded 26 cities worldwide (including my city of Istanbul, pictured above and filmed here) earlier this week, lurching around major tourist landmarks and generally freaking out passerby. The undead began their sightseeing in Taipei and Hong Kong, then hit European capitols including London, Rome, and Athens. More arose ...
by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Aug 11th, 2010 at 2:30PM: What would you do if you were face-to-face with the undead? Well, if you're smart, you won't show any fear. That's what several visitors to a Taiwanese theme park have been doing recently. Actors dressed as various creatures have been knocked around by tourists who are choosing not to let fear ruin their vacations.
Well, it's having an effect on morale, unsurprisingly. Some of the employees at ...
by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Jan 29th, 2009 at 5:30PM: Hackers delivered a warning to played a prank on Austin, TX commuters this morning, according to local television station KXAN. Near the intersection of Lamar Blvd. and Martin Luther King Blvd., an electronic traffic sign cautioned: "ZOMBIES IN AREA! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
To make matters worse, they are NAZI zombies, as you'll see from the video below.
Local motorists appear to have taken it in ...
by Grant Martin (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
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by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Dec 29th, 2007 at 8:30AM: The Body Farm isn't a tourist attraction, but it should be.
Imagine a plot of land over which forensic scientists have scattered some 150 dead bodies so that they can measure their rate of decomposition. According to a fascinating article in Wired Magazine, the scientists have carefully placed the bodies in cars, houses, fields, and anywhere else where police might find skeletal remains. The aim ...