# Zombie observation **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [March 20, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/zombie-observation/63101 "2025-03-20T21:43:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kuplungos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kuplungos/32/54198_2.png) [@Kuplungos](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Kuplungos)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/zombie-observation/63101/1 "2025-03-20T21:43:43Z")
**Platform** : Website **Browser** : Chrome \*\*URLs: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/263271475](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/263271475) [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2025-02-27&user\_id=lovecamp&verifiable=any](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2025-02-27&user_id=lovecamp&verifiable=any) [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon\_id=48484](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=48484) **Description of problem** : The observation’s page doesn’t exist anymore, but it still shows up on the identify page and the user’s list of observations ---
**Author:** ![m\_whitson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/m_whitson/32/25565_2.png) [@m\_whitson](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/m_whitson)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/zombie-observation/63101/2 "2025-03-20T22:31:14Z")
I’ve seen this happen before, too. I think maybe it takes a little while for all the various servers to update after an observation is deleted. ---
**Author:** ![oksanaetal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/oksanaetal/32/60589_2.png) [@oksanaetal](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/oksanaetal)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/zombie-observation/63101/3 "2025-03-21T11:51:12Z")
I’ve seen this happen too. Maybe we need the _braaaaiiinssss_ of the iNat staff to help figure it out. 🧟 ---
**Author:** ![susanne-kasimir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/susanne-kasimir/32/34021_2.png) [@susanne-kasimir](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/susanne-kasimir)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/zombie-observation/63101/4 "2025-03-21T21:17:25Z")
Sorry, very off-topic, but when I just looked at the title, I wondered whether to annotate a zombie as dead or alive… LOL ---
**Author:** ![ItsMeLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/49beb7/32.png) [@ItsMeLucy](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ItsMeLucy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/zombie-observation/63101/5 "2025-03-22T00:40:34Z")
(How would you annotate parasitic observations? 🤔) I stupidly thought it was a post about someone having made an Observation of a zombie, likely because of having read [this thread](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-cryptids-do-you-believe-are-most-likely-to-exist/46888). (Who’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer? It’s me, Lucy.) ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/zombie-observation/63101/6 "2025-03-24T22:21:22Z")
OK, a quick blow to the head with a cricket bat got rid of that observation. (Shaun of the Dead is so good) We don’t know how it happened, but the observation was deleted from the database but not the search index. It’s now been removed from the search index. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/zombie-observation/63101/7 "2025-03-25T15:00:19Z")
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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/zombie-observation/63101/8 "2025-03-31T22:46:00Z")
We just released a fix that should prevent this from occuring in the future.