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The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

themindsofmadness

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.46.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid.

When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because Laurence and others like him have signed up to be frozen and brought back to life in the future. And that belief will pull multiple generations of the Pilgeram family into a cryonics soap opera filled with dead pets, gold coins, grenades, fist fights, mysterious packages, family feuds, Hall of Fame baseball legends, and frozen heads — lots of frozen heads. From Wondery, comes a story about life, death, and what comes next.

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0:00.0

If you had the chance to be brought back to life hundreds of years in the future, would you take it?

0:05.2

One Dries News podcast Frozen Head hosted by Ashina Elena from the hit show Morbid tells the true

0:11.5

story of Lawrence Pilgrim, a lifelong scientist who planned for death his entire life.

0:17.0

Because for him, death wasn't the end. It was just the beginning.

0:21.3

Lawrence's dream to be frozen and brought back to life in the future pulls us into a

0:26.4

cryonic soap opera filled with dead pets, grenades, family feuds, hall of fame baseball legends,

0:33.9

and frozen heads. Lots of frozen heads. It's a story about the desire to avoid death,

0:40.5

the lengths people go to to make that a reality, and what it means to be alive to begin with.

0:46.8

I'm about to play your clip from Frozen Head. While you're listening, follow Frozen Head wherever

0:52.0

you get your podcasts. Hey, prime members, you can binge all six episodes at free on Amazon Music.

0:58.6

Download the Amazon Music app today.

1:08.7

It's a fresh spring day in Montana, but inside a modest white ranch house, the living room is filled

1:15.4

with death. There's a dead fox, a couple of dead coyotes, and deer heads mounted on the wall.

1:22.6

This is the Pilgrim's home. Pilgrim, as in Lawrence Pilgrim, the man who tried to have his

1:29.5

wife frozen in Elkhor, the very same. But this is his son Kurt's house. On this day, Kurt's son

1:37.6

Lawrence's grandson Benjamin is at home when he hears something outside.

1:43.2

I remember the dog's barking when he pulled up. The dog's always bark when anybody pulls into the

1:48.4

place. Now, normally, the mailman delivers to the mailbox by the road. But today, he's come all

1:55.5

the way up to the front door, and he's holding a package. He didn't leave it at the door like what

2:00.8

they usually do. So I was like, yeah, well, I'm sure it's just something needs to be signed for it.

2:04.9

So Benjamin opens the door. I met him and I signed for the box. As I'm signed for him looking at

2:10.6

the box, it was just a regular old cardboard box. It's a rectangular shaped box about a foot long

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