A new limited podcast series from Wondery tells a twisted tale that investigates the quest for eternal life and the lengths people will go to achieve it.
Frozen Head is hosted by New York Times best-selling author Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley, the voices behind the chart-topping true-crime podcast series Morbid.
This new series begins at the last and ordinary day of Laurence Pilgeram’s life. His routine consisted of a shower at the clubhouse, to keep his water bill low; and a dinner at the hospital cafeteria, because it was cheap.
Then, on the way home that evening, the 90-year-old dropped dead on the sidewalk outside his Santa Barbara condo. But that was just the beginning of Laurence’s journey, because he wanted to live again. And he had a plan to do just that!
Laurence’s dream to be frozen and brought back to life in the future, is a cryonics soap opera filled with dead pets, gold coins, grenades, fist fights, mysterious packages, family feuds, Hall of Fame baseball legends, and frozen heads … lots of frozen heads!
It’s a story about the desire to avoid death, the lengths people will go to make that a reality, and what it means to be alive to begin with.
“Any story that involves a highly secretive organization and missing body parts is bound to get interesting, but the surprises we encountered while working on this show were truly unsettling,” said Frozen Head hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart.
“Diving into this twisted tale over a series of six episodes was incredibly exciting to us as storytellers, especially because of how far-reaching and existential it ends up getting. We can’t wait for listeners to hear this story, which feels like sci-fi, but is, in fact, real life.”
The first episode of Frozen Head is available from today, 12 December on Wondery+, with the full series to follow on 19 December. The series will be available on Amazon Music and everywhere you get your podcasts from 23 January.
