This is one of those Zombiology
articles that I just have to postulate theories because I don’t have a lot of
scientific data to back this concept up. However, I feel it is important and
could save your life.
I am wondering why rigor mortis has
not set in.
I am by no means a medical doctor but
as is my understanding, rigor mortis is one of the reasons why we call dead
bodies “stiffs.” The muscles lock and go ridged. I have no idea what the time
frame is but I am guessing it must be anywhere around 24 to 48 hours. I am
wondering why rigor mortis has not set in.
Shouldn’t these guys all be stiff as a
board at some point and unable to move? Maybe it is the fact that they are up
and moving around quiet soon after they expire. Is that it? We have already
done several articles about how zoms will power down in the event of zero
stimulation. If Farmer Frank gets trapped in his house and there is no food
around. He will power down and go into a “sleep mode.” Then, when a trigger
comes along, they wake back up and are ready to chow down.
If rigor mortis becomes an issue,
maybe it can take some time for them to shake off whatever it is that makes
their muscles stiff. Maybe… Now, I mention this because what if you walk past
and the zom senses your presence. But because rigor mortis has set in, he
cannot sit up and come after you right away.
If something like this is true, you
might walk past a zom and it takes him a few moments to shake off the rigor
mortis and get back up and moving. So imagine you are skulking through a
hallway of a school and there are multiple bodies scattered about. You are on
the alert. You walk past and you think the corpse is not going to reanimate.
Surely you came close enough for this thing to come after you if it was going
to come after you.
And then you walk past, thinking that
the hallway is clear, and then suddenly you have a threat at your back when you
are looking for threats from the front. Now, we cannot prove any of this. We
have no scientific evidence. Maybe we need to try to see if we can access the
web and look it up.
But still, I cannot stress this
enough. Any corpse is a threat. Any corpse without visible brain trauma is a
potential threat. If you have the ammo or the weapon set, double tap that skull
and take it out. Better to be safe than sorry.
The Net is so sporadic and random
these days… but we will try to look into it.
