MAN SAYS HE CREATED 'ZOMBIE FUNGUS' FROM HIS SKIN AND BLOOD

HBO’s The Last of Us was supposed to be a cautionary tale, as well as a fictional one. But mushroom TikToker @southernspore is freaking a lot of people out with his latest video. “This is Cordyceps, the zombie fungus, and I grew it off my own blood and skin,” he says in the video.

He offers a close-up view of the specimen, and it certainly looks eerily like some of the images from The Last of Us.

He puts some of his skin sample under a microscope, which is indeed “absolutely disgusting.”

He claims that the Cordyceps are now growing on the skin sample. Then, he eats one of the Cordyceps. (They are edible if grown in the right conditions.)

Predictably, the comments are filled with people raising red flags about this experiment: “Bro trynna speedrun the last of us,” one person said. Others chimed in: “If you look closely you can see how it looks like you really weren’t supposed to do that,” another chimed in.