Zombies are possible

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I have a feeling you're replying based on personal opinion/experience rather than grounded fact.

Why would I have to radically expand anything? The quotes were there because grammatically you're supposed to put them when you're referring to a word in itself.
If you want to go the whole "it depends on how you want to stretch the term" route; according to the dictionary, it means: "an undead creature with a reanimated body, typically depicted in science fiction or horror stories as contagious to the living by bite".
According to Wikipedia: "A zombie is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse." ( referring to the Haitian folklore zombies. )

Back when George Romero made "Night of the Living Dead", there was no mention of the term "zombie", it wasn't until later when the creatures in his movie and the term for the "undead slaves" in Haitian folklore got intertwined. Today, when people mention the term Zombie, they are often referring to reanimated corpses (usually achieved through some sort of virus/infection/parasite, such as in this thread for WWZ).

Now that we've narrowed the definition for the word (and not radically expanded it), we can get to the actual facts (and not arbitrary opinions).

There are parasites that infect and hijack it's hosts body to do it's bidding, kind of like the people going crazy in "28 Days Later".
Ants, roaches, fish, beetles, spiders and rats, to name a few. Some are transmitted through bites, like in the movies.

I did put "return" in quotations when I said "the dead 'return' all the time", because for some parasites, when it's host dies and it's corpse is taken over, it's not really the original creature, it's the new parasite/host (similar to many zombie movies).

There are many, many articles on the subject though (with many from reputed sources) if you were actually interested in learning about it.

It seems like you're more interested in debating the use of quotation marks than you are the actual subject at hand. Other than "no, no, you are flatly wrong" (I used quotation marks there because I was quoting...no need to question them now that I've explained lol), you have very little (nothing) to contribute to your side of the "argument" (I used quotation marks there because although we're both making arguments, we aren't arguing in itself...no need to question them now that I've explained lol). You've actually contributed SO little to the debate, that I'm not sure it was worth posting in the first place. Although, had you not, you wouldn't have been able to feel some sense of superiority by telling someone they're wrong about something you seem to know very little.

I use quotations where grammatically appropriate though. Sorry I don't use leetspeak and t@lk L1k3 Th15 (or however they do it lol) or that I don't just ignore punctuation simply because I'm online? Not really sorry...but you know.

Edits: (Formatting kept fucking with me and wouldn't let me put my full reply in one post. I figured it out, though)