We've posted before about Frozen Dead Guy Days, a festival held in Colorado every year in honor of Bredo Morstoel, who has been frozen since his death in 1989. Since 1993, he has been kept on ice in Nederland, Colorado, which threw the festival every year from 2002 until the pandemic. The festival in 2023 was canceled by city authorities because it had grown out of hand.
But Frozen Dead Guy Days is back for 2024, and will be held on Saturday, March 16, in Estes Park, Colorado. Morstoel's body has been moved there to a permanent home in the ice house of the historic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, the inn that inspired Stephen King to write The Shining. But that's not all that's new. The ice house has been transformed into a museum. It is now the the International Cryonics Museum. It is the only museum dedicated to cryonics, the science of "long-term, ultra-cold storage of human remains for possible future organ banking and transplantation of viable organs, up to and including the brain."
Since there are plenty of tourists visiting the Stanley Hotel every year, and a larger town to accommodate festival crowds, the organizers are hoping that Frozen Dead Guy Days has now found a permanent home in Estes Park, and Morstoel can once again begin receiving visitors. Read about Morstoel, the festival, and the new museum at Smithsonian. -via Metafilter
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Ooh! I must correct that. Thanks!
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The Shinning was not filmed at the Stanley hotel. The Stanley was inspiration for Stephen King’s book The Shinning. The movie was filmed primarily in Oregon and Montana.
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