Ed Gein: the Real ‘psycho’
by The real life inspiration of many cinematic serial killers, this deranged man shocked a nation with the crimes he perpetrated. Although he murdered only two women he was found to have exhumed as many as 40 gravesites of recently deceased & buried women and used their skin, bones and other body parts for everyday purposes to decorate his home.
Here is a nightmare that inspired many horror villains from cinematic Hollywood such as the fictional characters of Norman Bates (in Hitchcock’s “Psycho”), Leatherface (from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”) and Jame Gumm (aka “Buffalo Bill” and also identified as “Jame GUMB” in Wikipedia from “The Silence of the Lambs.”)
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Although convicted of just two murders, this deranged man Ed Gein inspired so many cinematic screen horrors that he reigns as one of the most deranged and macabre serial killers of all time.
Born in Vernon County, Wisconsin on August 27, 1906, he grew up in the shadow of a violent homelife of an alcoholic father and discord between his parents whom, according to reports, refused to divorce due to religious beliefs. They eventually moved to a permanent home in Plainfield, WI. where Ed Gein would live and do his evil deeds until his eventual capture by police.
Ed Gein’s mother Augusta, a fervent Lutheran by faith, rigorously instilled her teachings of the evils of drink, the maligned contention that all women were whoring prostitutes (herself exempted, of course) and furthermore, that they were tools of Lucifer himself and should be avoided.
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Instead of readings that taught of a loving and forgiving God and hope for eternal salvation, her frequent readings from the Old Testament of the Holy Bible instilled a fear of divine retribution where tales of murder, death and damnation for those that strayed from the way. These clearly augmented the way her two sons (Ed, and Henry, the older of the two) viewed the world, and one would become the embodiment of all things vile and evil. Chastised and berated with verbal abuse by their mother, the boys were constantly being told that they would be come worthless like their father and this kept them socially retarded and with a feeling of being outcast so as to keep them on the farm.
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Post CommentTarra Buluran
On March 9, 2009 at 8:22 am
Sounds horrible but equally an interesting article. I like it!
thestickman
On March 9, 2009 at 8:58 am
yeah… -I am eager to get back to writing about animals, insects, how~to, and articles about walking my son to school. This one was a disturbing report to write and it gave me bad dreams last night…
Lost in Arizona
On March 9, 2009 at 11:35 am
Ugh! To say that this person was deranged or disturbed is an understatement. I can’t even begin to comprehend the state of mind, and the pyschopathy behind such a person. It’s just sick what this guy did, absolutely fripping sick!
s hayes
On March 9, 2009 at 11:58 am
Very well written, article – terrifying stuff !
Andrew Davies
On March 9, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Nicely done man, as always the truth is stanger than fiction.
Jo Oliver
On March 9, 2009 at 4:58 pm
disturbing! I had never heard this story.
spiritwalker
On March 9, 2009 at 8:44 pm
I loved your article and was actuallly hoping that you would write one on Dahmer,Fish and the clown guy. I am very interested in reading on seriel killers. It is one of my lesser known interests. OH well…now its known
nobert soloria bermosa
On March 9, 2009 at 10:38 pm
real scary…this will certainly give you a nightmare..
Edward J Rodrigues
On March 10, 2009 at 12:21 am
interesting article…
J.L. Eck
On March 10, 2009 at 1:42 am
What a guy! What a story!
kamlesh786
On March 10, 2009 at 3:54 am
scary ,but interesting.
Louie Jerome
On March 10, 2009 at 5:52 am
Interesting article
stephencardiff
On March 10, 2009 at 4:05 pm
great article…. very interesting I enjoyed it makes a good read
mysticdave
On March 10, 2009 at 11:15 pm
scary and cool:)
banana1
On March 10, 2009 at 11:31 pm
very interesting, but a very stuffed up man…
Mr Ghaz
On March 11, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Fantastic! That was great and amazing story too. I always enjoyed reading all your works. Well done and Thanks for sharing this stuff.
Yovita Siswati
On March 12, 2009 at 6:30 am
He was really a psycho!
Bo Russo
On May 11, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Ed Gein,my hero.What a sick twisted f*%#k.I did know about this. The workings of their minds fascinating,those of serial killers I mean.
thestickman
On May 11, 2009 at 2:39 pm
It would not serve this article to include those (probably copyrighted?) images that I found elsewhere on the web of victim Bernice Worden, the woman “… discovered in a shed, headless and hanging upside down by her ankles from a crossbar, field-dressed like a butchered deer.”
Having viewed the police discovery images of her headless, naked & eviscerated corpse hanging in that shed stirs a hatred in me of this man, a hatred that I don’t even have coherent words for.
Makenzie
On July 3, 2009 at 7:04 pm
whoa, you did a awesome job….it was very interesting!
Haha, I’m watching the movie right now:)
thestickman
On July 3, 2009 at 9:53 pm
I didn’t even know that there was a movie until I almost had the article ready for publication.
Another Triond member has told me that he currently lives ‘just miles’ from where the Ed Gein house used to be… Hmm..
Logic
On November 16, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Ed Gein. The Result Of Religion.
Just Think About.
thestickman
On November 17, 2009 at 12:17 am
Some of the nicest, most decent and caring people I know are also the ones that live just outside the law and don’t regularly go to church etc. so yeah, -point clearly taken. Without a doubt this guy was given bad upbringing and religion (or at last his mother’s concept of it) was at fault.
Carter Ward
On November 10, 2010 at 4:19 pm
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ED GEIN!