In the African-diasporic religion of Haitian Vodou there is a cosmological space of desirable death and afterlife as well as hell-like states of doom: wandering on earth without their eternal soul, this state of existing is known as zonbi. As it was encountered by Western visitors of the island its story of the pop cultural figure of the Zombie began and has ever since been a product of quite different cosmologies and specific Euro-American fears. This talk will explore selected stations of the entangled history of the Zombie and what its transformations reveal about the dark side of their respective new and old home cultures.