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Obvious plot hole in "The Zombie"


How can the zombie escape its grave without any evidence of doing so beyond an empty coffin? Are we to assume that voodoo enabled the corpse to teleport from its coffin six feet under to the ground above?

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I believe the actual explanation was supposed to be that Mamalois Edmonds had him dug up by someone then had the hole refilled after they took out the body.

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Thanks, Paladin. That's a good explanation.

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A series about supernatural beings in every episode, and this is the plot hole you uncover?

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A zombie is a physical corpse that has been reanimated somehow. In this case it was through voodoo, but that doesn't change the fact that the zombie is still physical in nature and not a ghost that can float thru a coffin and six feet of dirt to the surface. So it's a legit question.

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I don't know anything about voodoo but my friend happens to be a witch doctor. He told me that in these kinds of voodoo cases, the corpse floats thru the ground and coffin like a ghost and gets reanimated once above ground.

I recall every episode being very much the same. And every show has an quick abrupt ending where a news reporter kills the supernatural being

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Is your witch doctor friend also your college professor? (lol)

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How did you know that?

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