Ed Gein

His neighbors thought of Eddy as a normal guy with a strange sense of humor but in truth Ed Gein was far from normal. His long, twisted tale of cannibalism, necrophilia, and murder was kept hidden from everyone. the grisly things he did astounded this whole world and intrigued almost anyone who heard about it. Edward Theodore was born on August 27, 1906, the latter of two children of Augusta and George Gein of La Crosse, Wisconsin. …showed first 75 words of 1224 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1224 total…mother not far from the graves he had robbed years before. You may have heard this twisted tale before and just not known it. Eddie Gein was the inspiration for such well-known films as Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. Though fiction stories are great, the non-fiction that Eddie himself created is far more interesting and complex. He is, and will forever be, known as the real American Psycho.