Zombies galore crawl Youngstown's downtown tonight

YOUNGSTOWN

Hundreds of gruesomely costumed live humans, (fake) wounds leaking blood, unleashed their inner zombies Saturday to shamble and moan and scream their way across the Mahoning Bridge to downtown Youngstown.

There were brides in white and “blood,” enough blood-stained axes to fell a forest, a man calling hoarsely for brains, and even a nun among the un-dead.

The only thing the event, called the Zombie Crawl, lacked is a song of its own.

A zombie, according to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, is a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead; it is also an alcoholic mixed drink made of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice.

Both were enjoyed Saturday.

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