Ed Gein Explained - The Real Cannibal That Inspired Leatherface and Other Horror Icons
119Have you ever heard a story so messed up, it makes every horror movie you have ever watched feel like a cartoon? That’s Ed Gein. The first time I heard it, it messed me up. Not because it was gory, though yeah, it absolutely was, but because it wasn’t a movie. It actually happened! Ed didn’t come out of the woods with a chainsaw, but he might as well have. This quiet, lonely guy from Plainfield, Wisconsin, looked harmless on the outside, a bit shy, a bit odd, but what cops found inside his farmhouse in 1957 shook the world. And in this video, we break it all down for you. Who Ed Gein really was, what went down inside that freaky farmhouse, and how one creepy loner's madness ended up shaping the entire horror genre. This isn’t some ghost story. It’s real. And it’s way creepier than anything you will see on screen. I just hope you have a strong stomach.