*Warning: This blog post contains some frightening imagery. Read at own discretion.*

For about the past month or so I have been thinking a lot about the things that really frighten me. That may sound strange, because who really wants to think about things that frighten them? There are enough things in this day and age that can put enough stress on people minds as it is; E.g. money, health, terrorism, shelter, hunger, etc. Life in general for some people is stressful. But I am not talking about the possibilities of life that make us worry or scare us. I'm talking about the things the things that live in your closet, hide underneath your bed, noises in the forest that bring up frightening imagery of beasts ready to snatch you up when you lose it and begin to run; all of the things that only exist in your mind. And for me, that would have to be Zombies.

The number one scariest (non-realistic) thing that could ever happen in this world, to me, would have to be a Zombie outbreak. There are a lot of things in life that could happen that would be really scary, but in this article I'm strictly speaking about things that could never happen. Things like vampires or werewolves. You get the idea. Nothing in my mind compare to the horror of an all out Zombie apocalypse. And even though they scare the living day lights out of me, I can't help but be fascinated to the idea. Weird, right? Zombies are the only thing I ever have nightmares about. I used to have nightmares all the time as a kid, but as I grew older I stopped having them. That was until about maybe a couple of years ago my friend, Kyle, who is also known as Abigorus here on Gamespot, introduced me to the game Left4Dead. I bought it and played it with him on PC and we had a blast. I watched several Zombie movies throughout my life, but this game was just insane. I actually am afraid when I play this game to the point where my legs have went numb from fright of being chased by a Zombie horde. while I try desperately to get into a safe place so I can turn around and unload a series of shotgun blasts into their faces. I have even screamed out loud on occasion, and I NEVER do that. Any time I play this game I have nightmares. So ever since we began playing Left4Dead together, I have had a growing fascination about Zombies.

I watch all the latest Zombie films that come out if I can. I am currently reading through "The Zombie Survival Guide" written by Max Brooks, which I will be following up with "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War" by the same author. I know in my mind that a Zombie apocalypse could never happen, but it's still a really scary thought; people dying and then reanimating into a being that knows no rest, no fear, and no pain and has an everlasting hunger for human tissue. Just the thought of being eaten alive is scary. "The Zombie Survival Guide" is a really interesting book full of facts about how to survive in a Zombie infested world, and even though I don't believe it could ever happen, it's just fun to read this type of stuff. What would you do if you were trapped in your house/apartment and there were Zombies galore surrounding your premise? Hundreds, maybe thousands, of hungry of the living dead moaning and scratching at your walls trying to reach you, the candidate main course, and your chances for survival are slim. That is probably one of the scariest thoughts ever; trying to escape a mob of undead then being pulled away feeling a number of jaws biting hard into your skin until either absolute death, or worse, you become one of them. Another scary thought is that there are billions of people in the world, and considering how many become infected and are turned, what makes any specific person so special that they can outlast it all? When a horde of Zombies come shambling and dragging their feet towards a person, there's not a whole lot that sets them apart from everyone else. Weapons, Fitness and their wits are a person's only chance for survival against a world populated with beings that don't go down unless their brains are splattered against the wall or until they decay and rot away.

Those are some reasons why I find Zombies are the scariest things ever. But no matter how much they frighten me, even to the point of giving me nightmares, they truly fascinate me. My friend Kyle and I are planning on co-writing a book together based on characters surviving a Zombie outbreak. My wife doesn't like the whole Zombie idea because she knows that it gives me nightmares, so she disapproves about me reading those books and watching the movies, but no matter how much I know she's right I can't help it. Saying all of this is making me sound crazy. But I guess we all need a little bit of crazy in our lives sometimes. I'm looking forward to writing this book with my friend. I hope it turns out well!

Let me know what kind of unrealistic/imagery things scare you if there are any!