How I became interested in the subject.

"All things zombie have been cropping up in my reality as well as my no so reality."- Patrick O'Keif

I was first acquainted with the idea of zombies when I was about 7 years old. I was watching t.v. when I flipped to the MTV channel and saw a young man in an all red faux leather outfit dancing and singing to a pretty girl. This young man I later found out was none other than Michael Jackson himself.
Caught up in the dancing and singing aspect of the video I continued to watch. I heard the most entrancing voice of an older gentleman. He spoke of creatures crawling in search of blood and the terrorizing of neighborhoods. In horror, I watched crypts being opened from the inside and grave soil being disturbed from below.
As the deteriorating, and mutilated bodies crawled out of their graves I watched with eyes like saucers. They limped and dragged their limbs across the ground, after the couple, who had been skipping merrily home.
I gasped as the corpses surrounded the lovers and began to close in on them. The girl looked around at all of them, then back at her boyfriend (which was what I assumed him to be) only to see that he had become one. Mortified she yelped, and the camera zoomed in on her, then shot to the man who was apparently leading the band of undead riffraff. The music started back up and the dead people began to dance, and an awesome dance it was. There was hip shaking and, air guitar. I was impressed at how well they all could move considering their poor conditions.
At about, that time my heavily christian grandfather came in and immediately shut off my recently found entertainment. He informed me that, that kind of music came straight from the depths of Hell, and in doing so ensured my pursuing all things Michael Jackson. Whether he knew it or not he had kindled the fire of a new and strange obsession.