Delaware is known to have some unique happenings, but the one that just got a shoutout on this list of the wackiest fall festivals in the United States might surprise you.
Wacky fall festival in Delaware
There are plenty of odd and whimsical Delaware traditions that out-of-towners, and even some Delawareans, might see as a bit weird. The one that Thrillist, a media company, chose to highlight for its list of the weirdest and wackiest fall festivals in the country is the Sea Witch Festival in Rehoboth Beach.
If you don’t know what a Sea Witch Festival is, Rehoboth Beach prefaces the event with the following eerie blurb:
“Not all witches hang out in caves with their cauldrons; sometimes they have a strong affinity for the wide-open sea.”
In short, it’s to celebrate the lore of the alternative mermaid mentioned above.
This year’s festival runs from 8 a.m. on Oct. 25 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 27. It includes a haunted bonfire, hayrides, a pet-friendly costume parade with nautical floats, a broom-tossing competition and a lantern-lit story time that tells the “true tale” of a ship that sank off the coast of Delaware in 1785.