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The Phanatic conquered his fear of zombies with the power of dance

There was a time when, confronted with a gaggle of zombies and other kinds of ghoulish creatures at the Phillies' Zombie Night on Wednesday (held during the team's 2-1 loss to the Nationals), the Phanatic would have run away or cowered in fear.
But the Phanatic has conquered that fear. He chooses, rather, to dance.
He distracted the zombies from devouring his brains by leading them in an activity empirically proven to be irresistible to the undead: Dancing to "Thriller."

Then, when confronted with a young zombified Phillies fan, he embraced the two-months-til-Halloween spirit and boogied to the spookiest tune known to man (... and whatever the Phanatic is): "Monster Mash."

Kinemortophobia thoroughly conquered. Just no ghosts, please.

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