The halloween party I was invited to go to was last night was at Frankenstein's Castle (or the rather, the remains of it) near Darmstadt, Germany, just a little bit south of Frankfurt. Mary 
Shelly, the author of Frankenstien, was inspired by the castle and used it as the setting for her novel. It has been called the Frankenstein Castle ever since and is the site of the oldest halloween celebration in all of Germany!
These may or may not seem scary to you...but they certainly did a good job sneaking up on me and getting me to scream like crazy all night! It was a total blast, a once in a lifetime opportunity that I'm so thankful to have experienced!
Shelly, the author of Frankenstien, was inspired by the castle and used it as the setting for her novel. It has been called the Frankenstein Castle ever since and is the site of the oldest halloween celebration in all of Germany!To get to the castle (there are only two towers and a chapel still standing today), you have to drive up a really steep, two-mile windy road that takes you through the woods and up to the top. We went on one of the two tour buses with the USO which takes only people in the military and their guests (the party was open to the public, but the tour was strictly military). They dropped us off around 6:00pm, just as it was getting dark, and we were blessed with warm weather and no rain the entire time (which isn't common during this time of year in Germany).
Okay...so let me ask you something... If you were going to a Halloween party, wouldn't you
want to dress up?! I mean, COME ON PEOPLE, that's half of the fun of Halloween is wearing a costume! Apparently I like to have more fun than the rest of the American people on this side of the world because when I showed up to get on the bus dressed all in black with my witch hat on, there was not a SINGLE other person that was wearing a costume! NOT ONE!!! (go ahead...you can laugh...I did!!) At that point I was glad that my mom and I had decided it would take too long for her to ship a really good costume over to me! Luckily my friend I went with brought a mask (not like it mattered at that point anyway), but I couldn't believe it! Someone said they were too old for dressing up and I just started laughing because I think I will still be wearing costumes when I am 90 years old! When we got to the castle, there were a lot of German people dressed up so I wasn't out of place anymore. It's interesting here though because all of the German's dress up with crazy face-paint more than actual costumes like you see in the U.S.
want to dress up?! I mean, COME ON PEOPLE, that's half of the fun of Halloween is wearing a costume! Apparently I like to have more fun than the rest of the American people on this side of the world because when I showed up to get on the bus dressed all in black with my witch hat on, there was not a SINGLE other person that was wearing a costume! NOT ONE!!! (go ahead...you can laugh...I did!!) At that point I was glad that my mom and I had decided it would take too long for her to ship a really good costume over to me! Luckily my friend I went with brought a mask (not like it mattered at that point anyway), but I couldn't believe it! Someone said they were too old for dressing up and I just started laughing because I think I will still be wearing costumes when I am 90 years old! When we got to the castle, there were a lot of German people dressed up so I wasn't out of place anymore. It's interesting here though because all of the German's dress up with crazy face-paint more than actual costumes like you see in the U.S. When we got inside they had to go through all of our bags at security and they took my mase! Grandma and Grandpa...ever since you gave that to me for my highschool graduation I don't go anywhere without it! Of course I wasn't going to be walking around spraying monsters in the castle with it, but I still would have felt a little less scared entering the "haunted-mansion" with it in my purse! I came out alive at the end of the night though and they gave it back to me, so now I can feel safe again :)
Burg Frankenstein (which means Frankenstein Castle), was packed full of different monsters
who were ready to give us a good scare! I was with a group of eight people and one of the girls got snatched up and put in a coffin! They certainly don't have rules here like we would have in the U.S. about not touching or grabbing people in haunted houses! One monster snuck up behind me and scared the life out of me and I took off running trying to ditch him but he literally chased me around in circles for a full minute before I gave up. He dragged me over and tied me to a cross! They also had comedy skits going on at different locations that we could watch and those were pretty funny. The best part though was just walking through and being scared by all the unexpected monsters! Here are a few pictures of some of them:
who were ready to give us a good scare! I was with a group of eight people and one of the girls got snatched up and put in a coffin! They certainly don't have rules here like we would have in the U.S. about not touching or grabbing people in haunted houses! One monster snuck up behind me and scared the life out of me and I took off running trying to ditch him but he literally chased me around in circles for a full minute before I gave up. He dragged me over and tied me to a cross! They also had comedy skits going on at different locations that we could watch and those were pretty funny. The best part though was just walking through and being scared by all the unexpected monsters! Here are a few pictures of some of them:
These may or may not seem scary to you...but they certainly did a good job sneaking up on me and getting me to scream like crazy all night! It was a total blast, a once in a lifetime opportunity that I'm so thankful to have experienced!
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