‘In a Walmart, Somebody Bit Someone’: Tennessee Man on TikTok Says There is a Zombie Outbreak

With The Last of Us and the never-ending The Walking Dead series, perhaps some people have developed a fear of a real zombie outbreak. But AJ (@hitfirehg) from Tennessee seems to be convinced that zombies have started taking over his state. Others on TikTok seem to agree that Tennessee is infected by zombies.

“I’m about to put this out now before it’s too late to listen,” AJ said in his “exposé” video. He claimed that it’s a warning and that some mysterious forces will take his video down eventually.

“The zombie outbreak s***? Some of y’all don’t even know about it because they’ve been keeping it under wraps,” he alleged. The shocking revelation follows a supposed zombie outbreak from the UK, and it has found its way in Tennessee.

“It done happen in Tennessee. In a Walmart, somebody bit someone else,” he alleged. AJ further claimed that the infected had to go to the hospital, and the Walmart had to be shut down and “quarantined.” For anyone who’s lived through COVID-19, even the word itself invokes unpleasant flashbacks.

“That person went to the hospital, they was in work in some days, and then they started attacking… doctors and biting on them. This is an outbreak,” AJ said, claiming that this situation was no joke.

“In Texas, at a courthouse, they started handing out zombie outbreak pamphlets. And then the CDC started telling you what to do in a zombie outbreak,” he added. If true, it seems like this zombie outbreak is infinitely worse than the recent Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship. Maybe it’s too late to lockdown after all.

What to do in a zombie apocalypse? Get out of the city

“What I would advise you to do,” AJ said of the impending zombie apocalypse, “if you can find a place in the woods, far away from the city and everything, like farmland? Go there, because a lot of people are not near there.”

The man said this is a heads-up for the internet to see. If those seeing it are outside of Tennessee, perhaps there’s still hope for those people.

But what could possibly go wrong on farmland? Perhaps The Walking Dead series has the best answer for that question. Nevertheless, AJ said that those on the seaside aren’t safe either. The zombies can swim and infect fishes too.

TikTok says they’ve seen zombies too

But is there really a zombie outbreak? TikTok users agree with AJ, and they’re collating “news” evidence that the zombie apocalypse is nigh.

One comment on TikTok said, “People he is telling the truth I looked it up and it said Texas was handing out pamphlets on zombie attacks.”

Another reads, “Facts! I’m in Texas and have seen zombie trucks riding around!”

And someone else said, “Bruh I got asthma, I can’t run from no damn zombie!” Many people seem to only be concerned about whether or not the zombies are runners or limpers.

Some didn’t seem to be afraid at all, saying that they still had a job to do—and under these economic conditions, not even a zombie outbreak can deter the hourly wage earner.

But the video is clearly a bit from AJ, and those piling onto it are doing so sarcastically. Other TikTok users were pointing out that the zombie apocalypse is not true and were worried that the gag would genuinely misinform some people.

A commenter said, “People genuinely just hop online and spread misinformation.”

And another reads, “Zombies aren’t even scientifically possible.”

Needless to say, AJ is pranking people, and those adding on to the alleged “zombie outbreak” are just playing along. Besides, a zombie apocalypse seems like the last thing on the list that would end humanity.

(featured images: JeepersMedia, hitfirehg)

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