World | coronavirus 'Zombie' COVID-Infected Mink Re-Emerging From Graves Sounds like something out of a horror story, but this is real life in Denmark By Evann Gastaldo Posted Nov 26, 2020 3:49 AM CST Copied In this file photo dated Friday Nov. 6, 2020, mink look out from a pen on a farm near Naestved, Denmark. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP) Denmark is culling millions of minks to stop a dangerous mutated form of the coronavirus from spreading to humans, but some of those minks don't seem to want to stay in the ground. As USA Today reports, minks infected with the mutated COVID-19 strain are re-emerging after being buried in shallow graves. There's a logical explanation behind the "zombie" minks, the Guardian reports: As the bodies decay, gases are formed that cause them to expand, sometimes pushing them all the way above ground. Officials plan to nearly double the three-foot depth at which minks were being buried in order to put a halt to the creepy phenomenon, but some critics are calling for the bodies to be incinerated instead. Read These Next A big shake-up at the top of Ben and Jerry's hierarchy. Man initially detained in Charlie Kirk case has been charged. The woman whose review of her local Olive Garden went viral has died. Trump to reporter: 'Maybe they'll have to go after you.' Report an error