BERLIN (Reuters) - German police are investigating the discovery of a headless body near castle Frankenstein in Germany, a ruin many see as the inspiration for the novel about the mad scientist who made a monster from body parts.

Police said on Tuesday the naked male corpse was found by a couple in a car park in the southwestern town of Darmstadt some two miles (3.2 km) from the castle, but added it had probably been moved.

The mediaeval castle was the birthplace in 1673 of Johann Konrad Dippel von Frankenstein, a controversial alchemist famous for his avid interest in the creation of artificial life. He was also rumoured to have experimented with human body parts.


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I think finding a headless body near that particular castle has a big
connection. I feel sorry for the couple who found it, as well as the
poor soul who was decapitated.

They didn't specify if what they found was just a skeleton or the entire body skin and all (minus decapitation). If it was just a skeleton I think there could be a connection. If more, then no way a body would survive that long intact. Either way that's not something I would like to happen upon. Creepy!

maybe it's a sick tribute?

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maybe it's a sick tribute?

Anything is possible anymore it seems. Scary thought.

I can't imagine what the hell I would do if I stumbled upon a body while walking....scary thought. Aside from just finding a body, how the bodies condition was, too, ugh!!

Or there might be a serial killer out there recreating the body list by taking what he/she wants and dumping the rest.

Oaky....someone has to school me on this. I thought FRANKENSTEIN was a fictional character created by Mary shelley. Are you telling me he was real perosn that wanted to create life? Please explain.

What's even creepier still, is that every year they hold a "haunted house" in that castle, right around halloween. There is an American military base pretty close to Darmstadt, so the whole halloween thing is "catching on" over in those areas. I almost went the last year I lived in Germany. Eveyone who did go said that it was an absolutely terrifying experience.

If my memory serves me right and it usually dosen't ... Castle Frankenstien was an allready abandoned building near where Mary Shelly's familly went on holiday's when she was young, and it was the castle that was the main influence for the story .
It was also very similar to an old story(I can't remember dates or names but the story was true enough) .
Quite a long time ago, (somewhere in Europe) when medicine was still a fairly new science a man who thought of himself as a Doctor decided it would be a good idea to dig up the bodies of the recently deceased to help him study the anatomy of the human body . Oddly enough when his necrophillius ( I think I made that word up ) activities were discovered the townspeople did not show the scientific awe he no doubt thought was deserved and I believe he was killed by an angry mob in the end .

I say again though my memory hasn't been the same since I had my two boys ....

Here's a link that's a little more acurate .... Clicker