When someone dies, they leave this world, and depending on your beliefs they either move on, or are just gone. While all deaths are tragic, there are some that hit harder than others, such as murder or suicide. Some people die having left something unfinished. Often, we hear of the dead with unfinished business returning as ghosts. The concept of the dead returning as zombies is also well known. Though these cases lean more towards virus outbreak, or other direct means. There is one belief, born from Scandinavian Viking folklore, that combines the ghost and the zombie into a single entity. The gjenganger.

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