On December 15, 1966, animation legend Walt Disney died of complications from lung cancer , for which he had undergone surgery just over a month earlier. With his death, the world was “orphaned” of his genius and inherited his characters and fictional universe, but the legend was also born that after he died, Walt Disney had been frozen. But was it really like that?
Walt Disney Is Frozen: Is It True Or A Lie?
The day after he died at Saint Joseph Hospital in Burbank, a private funeral was held and his body was cremated and buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. However, and although it is evident that he is still alive thanks to the legacy of his films and theme parks shortly after his death, that rumor began to circulate that he could be living with his body suspended in a frozen state and hidden in the depths of the promenade. in which he now stands at the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, awaiting the day when medical technology was advanced enough to revive him.
Why was the lie about the Walt Disney freeze born?
Over the years, the Disney family itself, and specifically his nephew Roy E. Disney, has repeatedly denied that Walt is frozen , but there are also many voices that continue to defend the theory of keeping it in a hidden place. waiting for science to unfreeze it. These “believers” claim that the news of his death was deliberately delayed to give time to those who had been charged with the mission of freezing him to place his body in cryonic suspension and that both his funeral and the actual location of his place of his tomb have been kept secret as a means to further conceal the truth of his death.
But in reality, it seems that the legend was born because Disney had a constant interest in the future. He proved it with projects like his EPCOT Center (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) and the technical innovations for which he was known throughout his career. On the other hand, a Time magazine article on cryonic freezing by a 73-year-old psychology professor also helped the legend continue to grow and in fact still hold, for many people, as true. However, the daughter of the famous artist, Diane Disney already declared decades ago that her father was neither frozen nor had he ever heard of cryogenization.
