While plans for his next big party in his honor are under way, Nederland’s Frozen Dead Guy is quietly celebrating an anniversary Friday.
Twenty years ago Friday, the body of Norwegian Bredo Morstol arrived in Nederland, where his grandson had hoped to open a cryonics facility.
The facility never happened, but “Granpa Bredo,” aka The Frozen Dead Guy, stayed behind — on dry ice in a local shed. He is the town’s adopted son and top celebrity, featured on “The Tonight Show” in 2004 as Colorado’s most interesting person.
Morstol also is the namesake of the annual Frozen Dead Guy Days, which draws tens of thousands of people to this mountain town of 400 each March.
“He’s been a real good sport and given us a reason for a winter carnival,” said local bookstore owner Kimba Stefane, president of the Nederland Area Chamber of Commerce. “It’s a nice way for our small town to have a Day of the Dead, to laugh in the face of death a little bit.”
No observances were planned this week, she said, but committees are busy picking a T-shirt design, lining up sponsors and musical acts and other prepations for the next Frozen Dead Guy Days, March 5-7.
