Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of historically documented murders. Ed Gein (right), aka The Plainfield Butcher, was the real-life inspiration for iconic horror film characters like Psycho s Norman Bates (left) and The Silence of the Lamb s Buffalo Bill. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images/HowStuffWorks
Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of historically documented murders.
Ed Gein was, by any civilized culture s definition, a sicko. Here was a man, clearly in the unforgiving grip of mental illness, who performed horrible, despicable, unspeakable acts on bodies, both living and dead.
His life was the stuff horror movies spring from. Indeed, three scream standards the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho, 1974 s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and 1991 s The Silence of the Lambs all were influenced by Ed Gein s very real, very deranged life.
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Atlanta Monster, there’s no shortage of true crime podcasts. The genre is so huge that Netflix whose offerings in this arena include
The Staircase, and many more even created a parody true crime series (
American Vandal). Which raises the question: Why are we so obsessed with true crime? Here’s what the experts have to say.
1. Because being obsessed with true crime is normal (to a point).
First things first: There’s nothing weird about being true crime obsessed. “It says that we re normal and we re healthy,” Dr. Michael Mantell, former chief psychologist of the San Diego Police Department, told NPR in 2009. “I think our interest in crime serves a number of different healthy psychological purposes.” Of course, there are limits: “If all you do is read about crime and . all you do is talk about it and you have posters of it, and you have newspaper article clippings in your desk drawer, I d be concerned,” he said.
Paranormal investigator claims to communicate with the SPIRIT of serial killer Ed Gein who speaks about the skin suit he made from corpses which inspired Silence of the Lambs and Psycho
Steve Shippy, a paranormal investigator and documentary filmmaker, allegedly successfully talked with the dead serial killer s spirit
The two-hour Discovery+ special titled Ed Gein: The Real Psycho that airs Friday
Gein, who was known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was a murderer and body snatcher who exhumed corpses from graveyards
In the documentary, Shippy partners with psychic medium Cindy Kaza to question Gein and his mom, Augusta Wilhelmine Gein, about their relationship
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