SINKING SPRING, Pa. – What’s a better time to visit one of Berks County’s biggest attractions, Shocktoberfest, than Halloween on a Friday night.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been doing Shocktoberfest for 35 years,” says Patrick Konopelski, owner of Shocktoberfest.<\/p>\n
Bringing tons of fright and of course some fun to Berks County.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s important for humans to experience life,” Konopelski says.<\/p>\n
And to feel laughter, chills and face our biggest fears.<\/p>\n
“So we have a little bit of clowns and claustrophobia,” says Mackenzie Graybio, manager at Shocktoberfest. “What a better time to come to Shocktoberfest than Halloween on a Friday night.”<\/p>\n
As they prepare for their last two weeks of the year, they’ll be working the rest of the year preparing for the next season.<\/p>\n
“Making it better and different for the customer when they come out year after year,” Konopelski says.<\/p>\n
As generations come and go, “People have grown up with us. We’ve hired three generations in one family, grandmother, the mother, the daughter,” Konopelski says.<\/p>\n
One thing is the same, a shared love for the spooky, the mysterious, and unknown.<\/p>\n
“I’m super into this. I come back every year,” Graybio says. “It’s really like a hobby at this point. I just love the atmosphere, I love all my friends, I love what I do. It’s so fun.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINKING SPRING, Pa. – What’s a better time to visit one of Berks County’s biggest attractions, Shocktoberfest, than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-21656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}