The entire horror genre has been shaped by a guy who only did 2-3 murders, got declared legally insane, and spent the rest of his life living peacefully in the in-patient mental ward of a hospital.
@@lauravampire1276 I mean the dude made furniture out of human skin and had a box full of women bits.. As bad as every serial killer has been none of them made skin furniture and skin clothing. You surpass others when your room looks like it's straight out of Silent Hill.
And you could trust your kids with someone more often back then too which is even scarier, nowadays you can’t trust kids with anyone whatsoever besides family and sometimes not even family
Killers aren't evil, fanged beasts that come out at night to prey on the innocent. They're people that walk would among us everyday and we would never know it. Gacy was a birthday clown. Bundy was a "warm and loving" boyfriend who went to law school.
@@Pnk_Rckr while that is true, Bundy was more of a charismatic boy next door persona. Bundy had multiple attempts on his long time girlfriends life. One of them being closing up all exits ( like space under doors and closing windows ) and leaving the fireplace burning, which almost killed her by suffocation. He resisted in the end and ended up saving her life moments before death.
My grandpa was a security guard at Mendota when Ed Gein was there. My grandpa said he was not scary or threatening, he was just a strange and quiet old man. Which I always thought was kinda creepy considering what he did.
Just read the book “Deviant” by Harold Schechter. I consider myself a strong stomached guy. I don’t think I’ve ever walked out of a horror movie or anything like that because it was too much. I had to set that book down several times. The details of what the cops found in Gein’s house were beyond disturbing.
I have never read that book, but I used to LOVE gory things. Ever since this whole quarantine, I was with my mom and sisters for TOO long. I became obsessed with gore and everytime I read it or saw something I would just giggle. Now that I can go back to school, I can barely stomach gore and gory details, so yee. :'))
Lol i thought it was him. I feel like I could work for them and being them worldly true horror stories. None that made it to a movie. Like the soap nana. She'd open a orphanage for families to bring the unwanted and she had a success rate of adopting kids out at almost 90%, odd isn't it? Well after 6years she was caught and it was discovered all the kids that were "adopted" were actually now missing or never left the place.. at least in one piece. The 80% of kids were turned into soap after she killed them (usually suffercation/drowning) she'd take their body fat and churned it into soap a bit smelly soap but soap none the less. Made bank off it of cause it was "organic". A Russian elder woman during the 1920's i believe it was or it was the 80s.
This dude's talking at the bottom of his range for "radio voice", in order to add inflection you must have ups and down in tone plus inflection to avoid a monotone. When on the lower notes in that natural fluctuation, his voice cannot go lower with ease and so it gets a fry.
Fun fact: When you do the math Ed’s older brother Henry was very likely conceived before marriage, thus making Augusta (the mom) a hypocrite. Augusta and George married December 1900, Henry was born January 1901.
I really feel for the cops who had to go through Ed Gein's house and barn. Discovering all of those gruesome....discoveries. Those guys were likely to be in therapy for the rest of their lives.
@@ephwurd2yurMother how is it phyco to want to study a creature that so drastically differs from the standard norm? Are you not curious as to how and why his mind works that way ? Do you have no scientific curiosity at all?
so this one person inspired texas chainsaw massacre, psycho, silence of the lambs, and halloween, several of the most iconic and horror films of all time, he's basically the literal american boogie man
What disturbs me is that Ed Gein is buried in the same cemetery as a lot of his victims that he dug up and used their bodies for his hellish deeds. If someone did that to my loved one, I'll be damned if that for would be buried in the same cemetery, I'd dig him up and burn his body. That's just an insult and slap in the face to the victims families.
He is buried with his family! You can’t excuse the murders but you can’t excuse the awfulness of his childhood! George and Augusta gein deserves no pity! They turned their son into a killer!
@@priestessmikokikyo77 okay sorry for what I commented. I kind of got a little bit of too far because I just got annoyed a bit since I was watching the Texas Chainsaw massacre with my family.
I actually feel very sorry for Ed Gein. He and his brother were the children of a bitter woman who was incapable to giving love to her male children because of her own mental difficulties and her difficult marriage, drunken probably cruel husband. What he did was horrific but allowing for his mental state, isolation and his childhood he is basically a product of his deranged parents and therefore needs sympathy but with a caution added if ever someone like him is evger encountered!
My aunt lived just up the road from Ed,and said the stories of him dancing in the moonlight while wearing a woman suit was true. And that Ed was the town handyman, doing odd jobs all over town.
My mom said he actually babysat her cousins, he helped anyone in town doing odd jobs and such. They also never talk about how during that time. Many hitchhikers and folk that didn't live in the town, but were walking on roads were reported missing. Last seen near that town. She and others think he killed them also. One of her examples were that he had more nipples than women killed or dug up &many were not treated with embalming fluids used at that time. I'm not sure of much else, except her cousins thought he was a very strange man and uncomfortable around him. (Of course they said this after he was caught)
I think someone dancing in the moonlight wearing a cadavers literal face as a mask is probably high on the list of "most frightening sights I never wish to come across in real life"!
God I really hate this one bc it's so creepy how close he was with the towns people.. Like, he literally gutted a woman in his shed and then just went to have dinner with his neighbours as if nothing happened. Imagine the shock of those people. They let him care for their kids and afterwards he just went home to his human furniture and skin suit 🤢 those people must've been seriously scarred for life after they found out
Worked with one who chased someone all the way down the road to their house with a chainsaw. No blade of course, that dude was so fun to do scares with
"In a trance". Interestingly, the fact that he came up with those alibis would be a point against his legal insanity, which is an inability to understand that what he was doing was wrong in the eyes of society. He even said he went to the cemetery many times but stopped himself, which would imply he knew it was wrong to steal corpses. Still a good call to put him in a mental hospital, since he was some kind of ill, but I doubt he was legally insane.
I saw the newest version of the movie & absolutely figured that it was fiction. The fact that a real human actually did the majority of what was in the movie (in real life) is beyond terrifying. I can't even call him a human at that point.
I grew up in Wisconsin, arriving there in 1968. At a yard sale in the 1970’s I found a tattered paperback book about the trial/ transcripts of the trial of Ed Gein , & in it were actually black & white photos of furniture covered with human skin & a photo of a headless woman’s body, who had been gutted like a deer! Not the best book for a 12 year old to read! I don’t know what happened to the book, it disappeared over the years, but it sure was creepy & I never forgot this!
About time someone went deeper into the family dynamics and what happened to his brother Henry. The poor cops who had to assess the crime scene and go through the house would never have recovered. The same goes for Dahmer's place being searched. Absolutely horrific.
I honestly never really got into the history behind the Texas Chainsaw but definitely sounds like Ed had a lot of unhealed trauma that he could never go to anyone about- this story is giving me chills 👀🤯
Serial killers usually have a split personality it comes from having a bad upbringing.. for example. If you're not strong enough to take the beatens or the psychological pain.. You make a personality that can. Some serial killers have multiple personalities, with all different names.. Personalities and traits. If you have a child..Make sure you love it.
While you are right in the cause of “multiple personalities”(it’s called did now) the rest of your comment is largely untrue and hurtful to those with did, osdd, etc. people with these conditions are actually more likely to be further victims of abuse and violence than the perpetrators. Even if some serial killers have been diagnosed, they are the unique exception, not the rule. Please do not spread this false information. I’m sorry if I come across as rude, I just want to be clear.
@@queerlittlecactus8749 Hey buddy! I've been studying within universities for over 8 years. Studying multiple cases and earning my phd within criminal psychology.. I understand what you're saying. Serial killers aren't a unique exception.. Every if not all serial killers have these issues..That being said.. Just because that's true. Doesn't mean everyone who has these mental issues will become one. That should already be obvious.
I saw the original movie in 1974 and I just got through watching the movie tonight. The blonde girl who survived deserved an academy award for screaming. My throat was sore just hearing it. It's hard to believe that something so horrific really happened.
The fact that Ed Geins life story inspired some of the most horror movies of all time... Including Texas chainsaw massacre, psycho and silence of the lambs... Just shows how terrifying and screwed up this person was...
Haven't watched the full video so idk if he mentions this, but Gein had often gifted his neighbors "venison" which was later found to be the meat of the humans that he would taxidermy.
We have evil living amongst us everyday. Ed Gein was a quiet old man, but you'd never guess he was a murderer. My thing is, he actually hand crafted furniture with human skin which is so bizarre. He took pride in his art. He literally made gloves from human flesh and he actually wore real human faces (women to be exact)...You can see the influence in Silence Of The Lambs, TCM of course, Devil's Rejects, etc etc... It's crazy how one man can do all that. His house was hoarded, but he kept his mother's area fairly clean and untouched.
This sick dude: I was in and out of a Daze when I commited these murders! Also this dude: **has a whole house made out of corpses and mementos of his victims** Did he have a whole 'nother house he lived in? This guy really thought that lie would work 🤦🏾♀️😰
I saw a What makes a Serial Killer doc with a Psychiatrist who interviewed Ed Gein many years later. She said he really wasn't making any sense, despite being medicated, but was quite docile . That says a lot, because modern anti psychotics are usually quite effective if taken regularly.
Bernice was my great aunt. I never know how to feel about anything inspired by her murder. Honestly I could only watch half this video before stopping despite my love for buzzfeed
This one makes me questions my views. I'm so tired of people acting crazy at the time of the trial that I was thinking we should eliminate insanity as a plea. But then there's this guy...how can you not be completely insane if this is what you do?
There's a story behind the Texas Chainsaw Massacre that never seems to get covered. There was a Vietnam war vet who was out of his mind who dug up graves and made totem poles out of various body parts on the side of the highway. That was some of what inspired the movie.
We need more in between seasonal content of unsolved like this please I’m sure you guys can find someone who will sit here and make these all day for you guys so I hope this isn’t too hard to come across in the future you guys really do have good content tho
I know this case before and for me *ED GEIN* was still the most Insane and Disturbing Serial Killer 💀 He was Shy , vulnerable and timid introvert man compared to other Narcissist and self-centered Serial Killers but when it comes to _Psychological_ aspect GEIN will top the list 💀
Y'know who else Ed Gein inspired? Robert Bloch. Who did he inspire? Alfred Hitchcock. And who came about before Leatherface? Norman Bates from Psycho! EDIT: I wrote this comment before the end of the video, lmao. Nobody ever mentions Norman Bates, and hearing you mention him made me really happy. :D Thanks for that!
Ive got a story about this sicko.. In the late 1970s my uncle was using his hovercraft on some lake in Madison Wisconsin. His hovercraft was having issues, so he pulled up to the shore of this little island that was connected to the main land. His friend and him were trying to pull it onto the beach and noticed a guy sitting at a table under a tree about 100 feet away, so they yelled to him for help. The guy didn't move or say anything. My uncle walked up to him and asked for help again, and all the guy did was stare into the distance. Two doctors came running from the nearest building and took the guy away. Then one of the doctors asked my uncle if the guy said anything while he was talking to him. He said no and asked why. The doctor said "We just wanted to make sure he didn't say anything to you. Do you know who he is?" Turns out that man was none other than Ed Gein.. living his last few Schizophrenic years of life at the Mendota Mental Health Hospital. Thanks for reading my family story!
i have one too, my grandpa ended up in prison and he was in the same exsact prison he was being held in. my grandpa never spoke to him but he always walked by his cell. It's kinda creepy to know you're in the same prison with a person who tears people's skin off. my grandpa said to my dad "he was off his walker" and he definitely was not wrong about that
That was at Mendota Mental Health. You can walk out to the point and go fishing there now. There are a couple old sheds out there with Ed Gein sayings written on them whenever I've gone out there
I'm currently at my grandmas who lives less than 30 minutes from plainfield. Grew up in central Wisconsin and never knew how close the horrors that took place were until I was an adult.
The Texas chainsaw massacre is truly one of the most terrifying films of all time what’s so scary about is because it could ACTUALLY happen like it doesn’t have ghosts or anything in it it could actually happen that’s the terrifying thing and not to mention it takes place in the middle of nowhere
@@daniellelawman9724if thats how it worked, there would be 95% less police officers. They become a police officer people they wanna help people and stop criminals. Not to see disgusting brutal murder scenes most officers will go their entire career without seeing one
I am glad that they talked about it because not alot of people knew it was based on a true story. Sadly I wish Shane and Ryan covered this on true crimes
Crazy to think that your family lived where a serial killer did. I don't know why but a town I would visit so much filled with so much horror... Freaky
I loved listening to this because my dad had watched it when it came out when he was 13 and he was scared of any wind chime noise and still is mostly scared of them.
I’m catholic and my family was never strict like this I just moved to the Bible Belt and the Baptist’s here are more strict than any Catholic Church I have ever been to up north
Let’s remember that his father was very abusive towards him and his brother. His mother possibly played a part but his father definitely played a larger one, considering sociopathy stems from childhood abuse and teasing. It’s more likely Gein did such horrible things because of his fathers influence instead of his mothers.
@@folkloricmoon I agree, I don't know why they put so much importance on his mothers strictness. All serial killers are said to have had some sort of childhood abuse
I find it interesting that they had to remove his gravestone and the gravestone of his mother because people either kept leaving gifts or people would come and destroy it.
I am a Plainfield native and the story of him is still alive but yet forgotten the store that he killed the clerk at still stands to this day as a true value hardware