A scene from The Return of the Living Dead 1985
Freddy

What's the weirdest thing you ever saw in here?

Frank

Oh, kid, I have seen weird things come and I have seen weird things go. But the weirdest thing I ever saw just had to cap it all.

Freddy

Oh, yeah? What's that?

Frank

Let me ask you a question, kid. Did you see that movie, Night of the Living Dead?

Freddy

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the one where the corpses start eating the people, right? Sure. Wh-what about it?

Frank

Did you know that movie was based on a true case?

Freddy

Come on, you're shitting me, right?

Frank

I've never been more serious in my life.

Freddy

That's not possible. I mean, they showed zombies taking over the world.

Frank

They changed it all around. What really happened was back in 1969, in Pittsburgh, at the V.A. hospital, there was a chemical spill and all that stuff kinda leaked down into the morgue and it made all the dead bodies kinda jump around as though it was alive.

Freddy

What chemical?

Frank

2-4-5 Trioxin, it's called. It was to kinda spray on marijuana or something. And the Darrow Chemical Company was trying to develop it for the Army. And they told the guy who made the movie that if he told the true story, they'd just sue his ass off. So he changed all the facts around.

Freddy

So what really happened?

Frank

Well, they closed it all down, see, and the Army shipped all that contaminated dirt and all those dead bodies out. And they kept it a secret.

Freddy

So how come you know about it?

Frank

A typical Army **** up. The Transportation Department got the orders crossed, and they shipped those bodies here instead of to the Darrow Chemical Company.

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