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I remember watching a show on the History or Scifi channel, and it had said that Mary Shelley had gone on a trip through Germany and had seen an old castle that had once been owned by the von Frankenstein family. There was also rumors that the castle was occupied an alchemist doing experiments with electricity and that this may have been the actual inspiration for the story.
The TV show also mention that the original von Frankenstein, who was a knight and not a doctor, had fought against Vlad the Impaler. I thought that was really cool -- Frankenstein vs. Dracula in real life.
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