Walt Disney

Urban Legends

It is really Walt Disney freeze?

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. 

A long-standing urban legend maintains that Disney was cryonically frozen, and his frozen corpse stored beneath the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, but Disney's remains were cremated on December 17, 1966, and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park inGlendale, California. The first known human cryonic freezing was in January 1967, more than a month after Disney's death.

According to "at least one Disney publicist", as reported in the French magazine Ici Paris in 1969, the source of the rumor was a group of Disney Studio animators with "a bizarre sense of humor" who were playing a final prank on their late boss.

His daughter Diane wrote in 1972, "There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that my father, Walt Disney, wished to be frozen. I doubt that my father had ever heard of cryonics.

Legal documents show that his ashes were laid to rest two days subsequent to his cremation in a marked tomb at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. Walt Disney died on the 5th of December, 1966, but the rumours have long continued that his body was cryogenically frozen.