Hamilton goes to meet a new bokor deep in the rice fields of Artibonite. To prove his strength, Hamilton takes a large dose of zombie powder and is rewarded with a peak inside a zombie’s shed.

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While waiting to consult another Bokor, Hamilton recruits Haitian guides to help him fetch the ingredients to create a zombie of his own.

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Hamilton is granted a meeting with the leader of the Bizangos, a Haitian secret society and beholder of the formula for zombification. Negotiations are made and a local Bokor agrees to create a nzambi—for a price.

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Hamilton arrives in Port-Au-Prince and checks in to the Adams Family mansion. There he meets his guide Alex, a man who survived fourteen bullets to the face. Together they attend a Vodou ceremony and watch a pig become an ambassador to the gods.

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Hamilton goes to speak with Wade Davis, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow, world renowned ethnobotanist and (don’t call him a) Zombieologist.

After being briefed on the history of the Haitian Zombie, Hamilton takes off for Port-Au-Prince on a quest for the secret poison.

VBS heads to Haiti to hang out with houngans, bokors, mambos, mandingos, and the Pope of Voodoo and learn how to make our own zombie.

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Hamilton Morris was sent to Iceland to cover fashion week, but instead used the trip to scour the country for psychoactive mushrooms. While there he picked up a half-ounce of piney Icelandic weed, partook in some fisherman’s snuff, and ate a bunch of liberty caps picked from a graveyard by some dude named Geri. Read more

Got any terminally ill cancer patients moping around the house? Shrooms should help, according to a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry this month.

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