Frozen Dead Guy Days, this strange festival is celebrated each and every year on the 1st full weekend in the March. This strange festival began in 2002 to celebrate the winter and the frozen corpse of the Bredo Morstel that was kept in the cryogenically frozen in the shack in town.
Bredo Morstel was the Norwegian citizen. Upon his death, his grandson Trygve brought his body to United States, using the dry ice to preserve the body until it arrived at cryonics facility in California where it remained stored in liquid nitrogen from 1990 to 1993.
The Frozen Dead Guy Days are celebrated during the cold of winter, when snow, ice, and chilly air can be incorporated into the festivities. Some of the most popular events include coffin racing, costume polar plunging (jumping into icy water in full costume), snow sculpture contests, Ice Queen & Grandpa look alike costume contests, a frozen T-shirt contest (contestants race to thaw and wear a T-shirt that has been frozen in a block of ice), and a dance called the “Blue Ball”.
The community experiences the new burst of life with the festival’s creative contests, icy events including the coffin racing, polar plunging, frozen salmon tossing basically if it is fun and can be done in the cold, it goes!
People come from around the world every year in the month of March to experience the legacy of Grandpa Bredo – even representatives of cryonics organizations who want share the science behind this unique story.
Many businesses come out to promote themselves at the event, selling beer and themed foods like “frozen dead guy ice cream,” and some contest winners may even get helicopter tours from one Colorado Company.
Frozen Dead Guy Days is one of the oddest festivals that exist– which is also why it is considered by many to be one of the most fun.
Bredo Morstel was the Norwegian citizen. Upon his death, his grandson Trygve brought his body to United States, using the dry ice to preserve the body until it arrived at cryonics facility in California where it remained stored in liquid nitrogen from 1990 to 1993.
The Frozen Dead Guy Days are celebrated during the cold of winter, when snow, ice, and chilly air can be incorporated into the festivities. Some of the most popular events include coffin racing, costume polar plunging (jumping into icy water in full costume), snow sculpture contests, Ice Queen & Grandpa look alike costume contests, a frozen T-shirt contest (contestants race to thaw and wear a T-shirt that has been frozen in a block of ice), and a dance called the “Blue Ball”.
The community experiences the new burst of life with the festival’s creative contests, icy events including the coffin racing, polar plunging, frozen salmon tossing basically if it is fun and can be done in the cold, it goes!
People come from around the world every year in the month of March to experience the legacy of Grandpa Bredo – even representatives of cryonics organizations who want share the science behind this unique story.
Many businesses come out to promote themselves at the event, selling beer and themed foods like “frozen dead guy ice cream,” and some contest winners may even get helicopter tours from one Colorado Company.
Frozen Dead Guy Days is one of the oddest festivals that exist– which is also why it is considered by many to be one of the most fun.
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