The Zombie Book. Nick Redfern

The Berwyn Mountains in Wales are known as a magical place where fairy folk dwell … and also zombies.

       Bhangarh

      When a fictional, on-screen zombie apocalypse erupts big time, one of the very first things that happens is that the cities quickly collapse and fall. As the numbers of the marauding dead increase near-exponentially, and as the cities become overrun by the hungry and deranged dead, those who have managed to avoid getting infected are invariably forced to leave for far more isolated, out of the way areas. But cities from which the living have fled are not just found in the domain of fiction. One such real world example is located in the heart of India: it’s the city of Bhangarh. That the city may be bereft of people because of a deadly virus will surely make all fans of the living dead sit up and take careful notice.

       Bhangarh Palace in India was a thriving center of activity for centuries until a bizarre plague struck the area in the 1800s, and the disease spread to the human residents.

      Located in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Bhangarh has origins that go back to the early 1500s when, thanks to the vision of the Maharaja Bhagwant Das, plans for the creation of the huge, sprawling city were first made. In no time at all, Bhangarh was a veritable hive of activity filled with more than ten thousand homes, a huge market place, and a spacious palace for its rulers. By the early 1600s, Bhangarh became significantly fortified, chiefly to deal with threats posed by the hostile hordes of opposing kingdoms. It was thanks to this careful fortification—combined with the fact that it was surrounded by a number of large hills and hard to penetrate forestland—that Bhangarh remained free of attack for decade upon decade. That life of bliss and relaxation all changed, however, in the latter part of the eighteenth century when the city became a definitive ghost town.

      While the circumstances that provoked the sudden evacuation of Bhangarh are steeped in mystery, one story that persists has more than slightly zombie-themed aspects attached to it. Reportedly, the local animals, which the residents of Bhangarh used as their primary source of food, became the victims of a mysterious virus that killed them with frightening speed. Shades of something akin to so-called mad cow disease, perhaps? Not surprisingly, when the virus reportedly, and suddenly, jumped from animal to human, complete and utter chaos broke out, and the entire population quickly left for new homes—ones just about as far away from Bhangarh as was conceivably possible.

      The dark memories of that long gone exodus still dominate the minds of the people around Bhangarh to this very day. As astonishing as it may sound, in the almost two and a half centuries that have now passed since Bhangarh became a city of the dead, there has not been even a single, solitary attempt to breathe new life into the abandoned city: Bhangarh remains just as dead today as it was back in the eighteenth century.

       Biochip Implants

      In the 1950s and 1960s, a large number of experiments in behavior modification were conducted in the United States, and it is well known that electrical implants were inserted into the brains of animals and humans. Later, when new techniques in influencing brain functions became a priority to military and intelligence services, secret experiments were conducted with such unwilling guinea pigs as inmates of prisons, soldiers, mental patients, handicapped children, the elderly, and any group of people considered expendable.

      Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, M.D., Former Chief Medical Officer of Finland, has stated that mysterious brain implants, the size of one centimeter, began showing up in X-rays in the 1980s. In a few years, implants were found the size of a grain of rice. Dr. Luukanen-Kilde stated that the implants were made of silicon, later of gallium arsenide. Today such implants are small enough that it is nearly impossible to detect or remove them. They can easily be inserted into the neck or back during surgical operations, with or without the consent of the subject.

      It has been stated that within a few years all Americans will be forced to receive a programmable biochip implant somewhere in their body. The biochip is most likely to be implanted on the back of the right or the left hand so it will be easy to scan at stores. The biochip implant will also be used as a universal type of identification card. A number will be assigned at birth and will follow that person throughout life. Eventually, every newborn will be injected with a microchip, which will identify the person for the rest of his or her life.

      Initially, people will be informed that the biochip will be used largely for purposes of identification. The reality is that the implant will be linked to a massive supercomputer system that will make it possible for government agencies to maintain a surveillance of all citizens by ground sensors and satellites. Today’s microchips operate by means of low-frequency radio waves that target them. With the help of satellites, the implanted person can be followed anywhere. Their brain functions may be remotely monitored by supercomputers and even altered through the changing of frequencies. Even worse, say the alarmists, once the surveillance system is in place, the biochips will be implemented to transform every man, woman, and child into a controlled slave, for these devices will make it possible for outside intelligences to influence a person’s brain cell conversations and to talk directly with the individual’s brain neurons. Through cybernetic biochip brain implants, people may be forced to think and to act exactly as government intelligence agencies have preprogrammed them to think and behave.

       Tiny microchips can be implanted in people’s bodies. It’s possible that in the future all Americans will be required to have implanted biochips.

      The technology exists right now to create a New World Order served by the zombie-like masses. Secret government agencies could easily utilize covert neurological communication systems in order to subvert independent thinking and to control social and political activity.

      The National Security Agency’s (NSA) electronic surveillance system can simultaneously follow the unique bioelectrical resonance brain frequency of millions of people. NSAs Signals Intelligence group can remotely monitor information from human brains by decoding the evoked potentials (3.50 hertz, 5 milliwatts) emitted by the brain. Electromagnetic frequency (EMF) brain stimulation signals can be sent to the brains of specific individuals, causing the desired effects to be experienced by the target.

      A U.S. Naval research laboratory, funded by intelligence agencies, has achieved the incredible breakthrough of uniting living brain cells with microchips. When such a chip is injected into a man’s or a woman’s brain, he or she instantly becomes a living vegetable and a subservient slave. And once this device is perfected, the biochip implant could easily be converted by the Defense Department into an army of killer zombies.

      Experts have said that a micromillimeter microchip may be placed into the optical nerve of the eye and draw neuro-impulses from the brain which embody the experiences, smells, sights, and voice of the implanted subject. These neuro-impulses may be stored in a computer and may be projected back to the person’s brain via the microchip to be re-experienced. A computer operator can send electromagnetic messages to the target’s nervous system, thereby inducing hallucinations.

      Beyond all science-fiction scenarios, we could become a nation of zombies.

       Black Death