Bath Salt Zombies

2012 was such an innocent year. Barack Obama was the president, the first Avengers movie was in theaters, and the media was very certain that drug-addicted zombies were gorging themselves on the road. The rise of the famed bath salts zombies started in this way.

A man was attacked on a Miami road in the nude in May 2012. The assault was caught on camera, and it happened during the day. Rudy Eugene, the assailant, nearly severed his victim's face by biting it all the way through to the bone. He had to be shot four times by police. The episode was also immediately associated with bath salts, a relatively recent and unheard-of substance. According to authorities, it caused users to become wild, overheat, and to act violently and with more physical strength. Other tales also surfaced, albeit they were not nearly as gory as the first. In essence, they were speaking about a substance that rendered you a zombie.

Surprisingly, there was no sign of bath salts in Eugene's system when the toxicology result was released a short while later; only marijuana. They weren't necessarily attributing the problem to marijuana; they were just stumped. The articles stopped by the end of 2012, and bath salts were essentially forgotten.