Short profiles or features on real scientists, mycologists, epidemiologists, or virologists who study infectious disease or brain-altering pathogens.

Stay tuned for real and fictional interviews with famous zombie researchers from books/movies.

Real researchers, real monsters.

Behind every legendary virus or terrifying outbreak is a scientist who tried to warn us—or accidentally created it. In this section, we profile the real-world heroes and fringe researchers whose work underpins the horror stories.

Meet Dr. Władysław Szymonowicz, the Polish pathologist who first studied the brain effects of rabies. Or Dr. Christof Koch, a neuroscientist exploring the nature of consciousness—because if you want to understand how to shut it off, you have to know how it works.

We also explore present-day researchers like Dr. Arturo Casadevall, who studies pathogenic fungi and warns that warming climates are helping fungi evolve into forms that can survive in human bodies—something previously rare. Could a heat-tolerant fungus cross the blood-brain barrier and alter behavior? Dr. Casadevall thinks we should be paying attention.

Each profile is grounded in real science, with eerie echoes of our fictional fears.