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.

This small town is about 25 minutes east of Boulder and it sits 8,000 feet above sea level.

It's a beautiful little town, it's got green pine trees all over the place, they're skiing,

there's hiking, there's mountain biking, and there's one other thing.

Perched on one of its mountains is a very small, very inconspicuous shed.

And inside that shed is the corpse of a Norwegian grandpa.

He's been laying there preserved in ice for more than 30 years.

My name is Dylan Thurus and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange,

incredible, and wondrous places.

Today we're going to Netherlands, Colorado, to tell you how that Norwegian grandpa got

into that shed and where he's going next.

After this.

Once upon a time there was a Norwegian gentleman named Brett Olmostell.

He was a supervisor in the Oslo Public Works Department, so parts of recreation had a

green thumb and he loved the outdoors and was such a kind gentleman that he was a patriarch

of the family.

That is Brad Wickham.

He got to know Brett Olmostell almost a decade ago, at which point he'd only been dead

for, you know, 20 some years.

Brad is Brett Olmostell's caretaker.

Yes, Brett Olmostell is dead, but he still needs a caretaker.

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