After a hiatus due to the pandemic, it’s the return of the festival everyone has been waiting for!

No, not Glastonbury… Frozen Dead Guy Days.

That’s right, you did read that correctly. A festival exists in the US which celebrates exactly what it says – a frozen dead man.

This year sees the 20th anniversary of the weekend-long festival, which is taking place from today through to Sunday, with the main events kicking off tomorrow.

The festival takes place on the second weekend of March in the town of Nederland, Colorado, and first started in 2002.

It is held in honour of a man called Grandpa Bredo Morstol, who is cryogenically frozen in a shed above the town.

Previously named as one of the New York Times’ top 10 best parties of winter, the festival’s website reads: ‘Frostifarian Friends we’ve missed you so and are hoping you will join us on a voyage to the new FDGD Festival Frontier.

‘None of us know for sure exactly what it will feel or look like but we do know there will be great music, excellent artists, fantastic food, craft beer, a frozen dead guy and bacon.’

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The website adds there are three heated ‘super tents’ featuring more than 30 live bands and 14 food vendors serving up everything from vegan dishes to BBQ.

Speciality craft beers will be sold, including a ‘Frozen Dead Guy Days brew’ especially for the festival.

Coffin races, a hearse parade, frozen turkey bowling and a ‘frozen t-shirt’ contest all take place.

‘Frozen dead guy’ lookalike contests are held and a documentary called ‘Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed’ is aired.

Other events include a tour of the shed where Bredo is frozen and a dance called ‘Grandpa’s blue ball’.

Anyone brave enough can attempt a polar plunge, which involves breaking through the ice in Colorado to go swimming.

Tickets are $30 on the door.

According to Uncover Colorado, folklore says Grandpa Bredo was out cross-country skiing in Norway and died of a heart attack.

His grandson, Trygve Bauge, put his body in dry ice and transported him to the US in 1989, where he was stored in liquid nitrogen for four years.

In 1993 he was moved to Nederland, where he is currently kept cryogenically frozen.

Trygve was then deported for overstaying his visa and asked his sister Aud, Bredo’s daughter, to take care of the body.

She kept her dad cryogenically frozen in a shack behind her house. In 1995 she was evicted due to living with no electricity or plumbing and revealed her story to the local press.

Police officers in Nederland investigated and made it illegal to store a dead body on your property, and Aud was found guilty by a jury of building-use and zoning violations.

But as the story had caused a sensation, local authorities decided to allow an exception for Bredo – and called it a ‘grandfather clause’.

Local environmental company Delta Tech were hired to keep the cryonic facility running.

The firm’s CEO Bo – also known as ‘The Iceman’ – deposits dry ice in the shed twice a month.

And that’s how the festival was born, which keeps increasing in popularity every year.

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