Here’s a conspiracy theory that might blow your brain into a thousand different pieces: The movie Frozen was made to keep people from finding out the truth about Walt Disney freezing himself.
OK, this is going to take some explaining, so bear with me as I rock n’ roll your face off. It all starts with the man himself: Walt Disney. Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901. He was a shy man whose public persona differed from his true personality. He was quiet and somewhat self-deprecating. Despite rumors of racism and anti-semitism, those close to him say otherwise.
But this isn’t a lesson on race or gender or any of the baggage that follows the massive Disney corporation—this is a story about the man himself, and a rumor that just won’t die.
Cryogenics
Let’s get right to the good stuff: There’s this rumor that’s been circulating since before Disney’s death, way before the invention of the internet. Supposedly, Walt Disney grew so obsessed with the idea of cryogenic freezing that he requested his body be frozen after his death. Awesome! But that’s only half the story. The second half comes courtesy of (where else?) Reddit, which posits that the movie Frozen was released purely to detract the public from looking up information on the cryogenic rumor. Because what do you get when you Google “Disney frozen?” Pages upon pages of information on the movie Frozen.
To get to the bottom of the mystery, we sought out answers from a search engine expert and ex-Disney employee.
“I can tell you, as a tour guide, that was one of the most frequent questions,” says Mikey Jacobs, a 26-year veteran Disney employee, when we asked him