In what many are calling one of the strangest signs yet of how government agencies are preparing the public for potential emergency scenarios, a courthouse in Burleson, Texas is reportedly distributing a survival guide warning residents how to prepare for a “Zombie Attack.”
According to a video circulating online, a woman walking into her local courthouse noticed something sitting among ordinary public information materials, legal forms, and government pamphlets.
An official looking guide titled:
“Zombie Attack — Are You Prepared?”
Not a novelty item.
Not a Halloween prop.
The pamphlet was reportedly stacked and available for the public to take, sitting alongside everyday courthouse resources as if it were just another emergency preparedness document.
Inside the guide, the content reads less like a joke and more like a full scale disaster response plan.
The pamphlet includes evacuation routes, emergency survival planning instructions, long term supply checklists, and step by step guidance for surviving a catastrophic event. It also includes chilling language warning readers that in a zombie scenario, “when they get hungry… they won’t stop.”
For many observers, the obvious question is simple.
Why would a government building be handing out zombie survival instructions in the first place?
The answer, according to statements made in past preparedness campaigns, may be more revealing than the guide itself.
In previous years, agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have openly acknowledged using “zombie outbreak scenarios” as a training tool to help the public think about disaster readiness.
The logic is that fictional scenarios capture attention and encourage people to learn survival basics such as evacuation planning, supply storage, and emergency communication strategies.
But critics argue that the concept may serve another purpose.
By framing preparedness information in the language of pop culture, agencies can distribute guidance about mass emergencies, outbreaks, or civil breakdown scenarios without directly describing the real world events they might be preparing for.
The result is something that looks almost comedic on the surface but contains the same advice used in serious disaster planning.
That’s what makes the courthouse pamphlet so unsettling to some observers.
It’s not a comic book.
It’s not satire.
It’s a structured emergency preparedness guide placed inside a government building, quietly available to the public.
And it raises a question that many Americans are starting to ask more often.
If agencies are handing out “zombie attack” survival plans, are they really talking about the undead…
Or simply preparing the public for disasters they’re not ready to fully explain?
