People baffled as raw chicken breast 'comes back to life and crawls off table'

28 October 2023 , 09:30

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People baffled as raw chicken breast 'comes back to life and crawls off table'

It's officially spooky season with Halloween right around the corner, and what's more terrifying than zombies? Of course, we know that the undead can't really rise up and take over the planet as they do in so many films, but one viral video seems to show a chicken breast that's trying to do exactly that.

The video first gripped the internet in 2019 when it was shared on social media, and it seems to show a slab of chicken on a plate full of raw meat that suddenly begins wriggling. It then makes it way off the plate and onto the table, where it manages to throw itself onto the floor.

You thought this was just an ordinary plate of chicken (Facebook)

Wrong. The chicken does not want to be cooked thank you (Facebook)

It is unclear where the footage was filmed - although many viewers have noted chopsticks on the table. And it's even less clear how a very dead chicken has supposedly managed to 'reanimate.'

The footage was posted on Facebook by Rie Phillips, and it didn't take long before the comments section was full of theories. Some wondered whether it is possible for a freshly slaughtered chicken's severed parts to still be firing off nerve signals, as they made reference to the famous phrase "running around like a headless chicken".

It is commonly believed that headless chickens run because many of the birds' reflex movements are controlled by their brain stems, not their brains - meaning a chicken will sometimes continue to race about.

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One person suggested: "Usually because the meat is so fresh the muscles can still move," but another didn't need any answers, writing: "Hell no! If my food is walking, I'm walking too." We slowed down the footage to show how the chicken appears to jerk unnaturally from one second to another. So without any scientists - or perhaps special effects experts - to enlighten us all, it was left to one Facebook commenter to sum up the internet's reaction: "What the actual #%*$?"

Zahna Eklund