Frozen Dead Guy (Classic)
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to experience some of the best mountain views that you can in Colorado, you might just want to make a trip to Netherlands. |
| 0:08.0 | This small town is about 25 minutes east of Boulder, and it sits 8,000 feet above sea level. |
| 0:15.0 | It's a beautiful little town. It's got green pine trees all over the place. There's skiing, there's hiking, |
| 0:21.2 | there's mountain biking. And there's one other thing. Perched on one of its mountains is a very small, |
| 0:28.8 | very inconspicuous shed. And inside that shed is the corpse of a Norwegian grandpa. He's been laying |
| 0:36.1 | there preserved in ice for more than 30 years. |
| 0:42.3 | My name is Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas Upskira, a celebration of the world's strange, |
| 0:48.0 | incredible, and wondrous places. |
| 0:50.7 | Today, we are going to Netherlands, Colorado to tell you how that Norwegian grandpa got into that shed and where he's going next. |
| 0:59.7 | After this. Once upon a time, there was a Norwegian gentleman named Bredo Mostell. |
| 1:33.4 | He was a supervisor in the Oslo Public Works Department, so Parks and Recreation. |
| 1:42.7 | He had a green thumb, and he loved the outdoors and was such a kind gentleman that he was the patriarch of the family. |
| 1:45.7 | That is Brad Wickham. He got to know Bredo Morstelle almost a decade ago, at which point he'd only been dead for, you know, 20 some years. |
| 1:53.7 | Brad is Bredo's caretaker. Yes, Bretto is dead, but he still needs a caretaker. But we'll get back to that. |
| 2:02.4 | Bretto grew up in Norway and was a lover of the outdoors. |
| 2:05.8 | He especially loved hunting and cross-country skiing. |
| 2:09.1 | Skiing was his passion, and I believe it was that he was skiing when he had his heart attack at 89 years old. |
| 2:16.0 | When Bretto died in 1989, his grandson, Trigv, had what he considered a brilliant idea. |
| 2:25.4 | Trigvie was a big believer in cryonics. |
| 2:30.2 | Cryonics is the process of freezing a body at hundreds of degrees below zero so that you might |
| 2:35.5 | resurrect that person at some point in the future. The movement was founded by a physics teacher |
| 2:40.6 | and science fiction enthusiast from Detroit in the 1960s, and the first person frozen after death |
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