Frozen Dead Guy Days

The story of Grandpa Bredo begins with his death. In 1989, Bredo Morstoel’s corpse was shipped to a cryonics facility in California, where bodies are preserved in hopes of a future resurrection, and later to Nederland, where his grandson had fashioned a custom cryonics facility out of a Tuff Shed and some ice. When the odd body was discovered a few years later, a city ordinance was passed banning the “keeping of bodies,” but the residents of Nederland rallied to maintain it, then started a party in its honor. Frozen Dead Guy Days has since outgrown its Nederland roots and in 2023 moved to Estes Park, along with Grandpa Bredo’s body, which is now stored at the world’s first cryogenics museum at the Stanley Hotel.