In this article from Newsweek suggests that a corpse which had did from Ebola that was being filmed by ABC’s Good Morning America had sprung back to life moments before it was hauled into a truck on the way to the crematorium. The video has rapidly gone viral. As men in protective suits sprayed the area with bleach and began to wrap what they thought was a dead body in plastic, the man moved his arm. “He’s alive,” someone yelled, and the surrounding crowd began to cheer. Shortly after, an ambulance came to take the man to a hospital, but with all the hospitals being full, it’s unclear where he was taken. Apparently, this has happened multiple times with Ebola victims in Liberia.

To fact check this very suspicious article, I used four methods:

First, I used Wikipedia to search “Newsweek” and see if it’s a reliable source. I found that it was, but that still wasn’t enough to convince me that Ebola zombies were real. There was another news/blog site that posted about Ebola zombies called Huzlers, so I checked that one. I found that it is a satirical blog.

Second, I used Google to search up the article including the word “hoax”. Immediately, I found multiple articles saying that it was a hoax.

After, I used Snopes.com to see if I could find a trustworthy article on the topic of Ebola zombies. Immediately, I saw that it also provided some reasons as to why the article is fake.

Next, there was an image in the article, so I used Tineye to find the origin of the picture. I then found that it was a prop mask, just like Snopes had said.

After all that, I have come to the conclusion that the article about Ebola Zombies is indeed Fake, or a Hoax.