At noon Saturday, the first ravaged corpses began to roll into Skyline Park along Arapahoe Street.
By 2 p.m., thousands of scarred and bloodied "walking dead" had made downtown Denver their stronghold, marking the seventh annual Zombie Crawl along the 16th Street Mall.
To the left, an elderly gentleman's eye hung from its socket. To the right, an ax-wielding 5-year-old sought fresh blood. Zombified Big Bird and even a ferret-toting mutant marched through back alleys and business districts as the afternoon plague grew.
Though some of the most vile costumes could repulse the strongest of stomachs, everyone who trolled around the area agreed on one thing — the festive atmosphere that brought more than 10,000 revelers
together was something special."I love to see everyone's creativity," said Danny Newman, founder of the Denver Zombie Crawl. "The costumes that come out here blow my mind every year."
The tradition began in 2006 as a way to celebrate Newman's birthday after he attended a similar event in San Francisco. It has since become one of the nation's premier gathering spots for zombie enthusiasts.
Newman said past years have set world records for the most people dressed as mutants in one place. Though no record keepers were around this year, he expected numbers to approach the 15,000 mark by the end of the day.
"I really always looked at this as a cool Denver tradition," Newman said, blood dripping from his neck as bones protruded. "You can be a dead anything. Whatever your normal Halloween costume was going to be, just throw some blood on it."
Amid the growing chaos, everyone donned disturbing garb and happily posed for photographs celebrating the subculture. Area artists were available to help bloody-up participants. Many didn't need any help, since they had planned for days — even weeks — to make their costumes perfect.
In addition to the crawl that overtook the mall, an adventure
race — the Organ Trail — sent lamebrains rushing in search of clues and completing challenges. The block party also featured a canned food drive for the Food Bank of the Rockies and the Bonfils Blood Drive."I think it's cool that no matter who you are or what you're doing, everyone's here to have fun," said Jessica Paulsen. She and her boyfriend, Chris Wunder, took on the role of walking-dead newlyweds.
While Wunder's ravaged and freshly charred suit came from a thrift store earlier in the day, Paulsen's lavish and flowing dress was a remnant from a canceled wedding and a past relationship. After towing the dress behind a Jeep on an off-roading excursion, she added a few dashes of blood. By the time all was said and done, the couple defined what could only be described as a truly apocalyptic wedding.
"You get really into it," she said of the cultlike genre that has gripped the country in recent years with dark TV shows and disturbing films.
For some enthusiasts, it was a family affair of the strangest sort, involving kids as young as 2 years old and even some zombified babies in strollers.
For others such as David Anved, it was a chance to pay tribute to an upcoming end-of-the-world video-game release. From behind blood-dripping claws that extended 3 feet in front of him, he said it was such an amazing chance to pool together zombie-lovers and curious onlookers.
"Everybody gets together and finds something they love and can express themselves having fun with," he said between snapping photos with curious — even concerned — onlookers. "I'm having a lot of fun."
Jason Pohl: 303-954-1729, jpohl@denverpost.com or twitter.com/pohl_jason
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