Frozen Dead Guy Days
annual celebration in Estes Park, Colorado, US
Frozen Dead Guy Days is an annual celebration held in the town of Nederland, Colorado from 2002 until 2023 and afterward in Estes Park, Colorado, to loosely celebrate the cryopreservation of Bredo Morstøl (1900–1989).
History
In 1989, a Norwegian citizen named Trygve Bauge brought the corpse of his recently deceased grandfather, Bredo Morstøl, to the United States. The body was preserved on dry ice for the trip, and stored in liquid nitrogen at the Trans Time cryonics facility in San Leandro, California from 1990 to 1993.
In 1993, Bredo was returned to dry ice and transported to the town of Nederland, where Trygve and his mother Aud planned to create a cryonics facility of their own. When Trygve was deported from the United States for overstaying his visa, his mother, Aud, continued keeping her father's body cryogenically frozen in a shack behind her unfinished house.
Aud was eventually evicted from her home for living in a house with no electricity or plumbing, in violation of local ordinances. At that time, she told a local reporter about her father's body and that of another individual whose partner had signed a cryonics contract with Trygve, and the reporter went to the local city hall in order to let them know about Aud's fears that her eviction would cause the bodies to thaw out. (The other body was eventually removed and cremated by the family.)
According to an article in the February 7, 1995, The Denver Post, Aud Morstøl was found guilty by a jury of building-use and zoning violations. The Nederland town judge ordered her to remove the frozen body of her father from Nederland by March 6 or face 10 days in jail and a $600.00 fine.
The story caused a sensation.
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