Frozen Walt Disney

Was Walt Disney's body put in cryonic storage?

Was Walt Disney’s body frozen after his death? Today we take a look at this long-standing urban legend.

It's one of the coolest Hollywood rumors (literally). Was animation legend Walt Disney frozen after death so he could be reanimated in the future? Read on for the truth about Disney's deep freeze...

More details from my interview with Bob Nelson, the cryonics expert who wanted to freeze Walt Disney.

Contrary to popular belief, Disney was cremated—not frozen.

One of the enduring urban legends surrounding Walt Disney: that after he died from lung cancer in 1966 his body (his head in some versions) was cryogenically preserved so that future generations could enjoy his genius once the technology to reanimate the dead has been perfected.

THE tale that the body of Walt Disney has been cryogenically frozen has become an urban legend – but how much of this story is actually true?

It's one of those urban legends that just won't die. Was Walt Disney actually cryogenically frozen after he died so that he could be reanimated in the future? No.