NEDERLAND — It’s that time of year again.
The Frozen Dead Guy Days celebration began Friday afternoon, probably the nation’s most famous festival honoring a frozen corpse.
Yes, Manitou Springs has been celebrating the late Emma Crawford, who died a century ago, with a wake and coffin races for nearly two decades. However, her body is not frozen and does not attend the ceremonies.
The three-day festival in Nederland includes a parade of hearses, frozen salmon tossing, icy turkey bowling and coffin races. The corpse of Bredo Morstoel, a Norwegian immigrant who died in 1989 at the age of 89, has been packed in dry ice in a shed at the mountain town since 1993. His family originally preserved his body in hopes that future technology could bring him back to life. He is the first and last person allowed to be stored this way by Boulder County.
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