Six Historical Mysteries Explained (With Zombies)

[ I know it's not a story, but I was working on this article for another publication and it turns out it isn't quite their thing. Since it was fun to write, and hopefully amusing to other people, I thought it'd be a waste not to post it here. ]
Sometimes history has huge, suspiciously zombie-shaped gaps in it. There are explanations for historical mysteries far more exciting, and considerably more zombilicious, than the big "dunno" we're supposed to accept from the text books. For example:&nbs...