Edward Theodore Gein, popularly known as Ed Gein was a Serial killer, murderer and body snatcher of Plainfield, Wisconsin. He was the inspiration for the villains of several gruesome horror films, including Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, and Norman Bates in Psycho. After Ed Gein was arrested; authorities conducted a thorough search in his house and discovered number of horrific items. So here are the top 7 items Ed Gein Made from Corpses of the dead.
Belt: After Gein was arrested; officials went to his home for searching more evidence, the first thing they encountered was a calling bell and the worst part about it; was that the switch was made from a female nipple. In his early childhood, Gein exhibited feminine behaviours, which subjected him to his classmates’ bullying at times. After his mother’s death, it seemed that he was increasingly desperate to become a woman himself and out of that he made a belt; that was completely made of nipples, and it just satisfied his lust and increased his collection of feminine attire.
Bowls: Serial killers are generally obsessed with different body parts of their victims; but it has been seen that most of them love the skulls of their victims, the most. Like Richard Ramirez (aka the “Night Stalker”) liked to draw pictures of his victim’s skull. And another Russian serial killer Alexander, loved to split open his victim’s skulls and poured vodka into them and then drink it. Ed Gein was a body snatcher, he used to steal dead body parts from nearby cemeteries and he specifically used to steal skulls for making makeshift soup bowls and ashtrays. He also embedded the heads of forks and spoons in bones to create his cutlery.
Chairs: Officials who visited Gein’s house told that he used to keep organs in his refrigerator and also may have consumed parts of them after cooking them on his stove-top or in his oven. Some say that he occasionally used to share his dinner with acquaintances; who had no idea that the dinner was of dead. Among the gruesome items that authorities discovered in Gein’s house was a set of chairs but the shocking part was that he had upholstered those chairs with the skins of his victims.
Mask: Ed Gein’s whole life history tells that he wanted to be a female and this urge increased more after his mother’s death. He wore women’s body parts as clothing and made sure that his costume included a number of masks, all made from dead women’s faces. The masks looked as real as they were, consisting of their victims’ entire faces, including hair, foreheads, eyebrows, eyes (with eyelashes), noses, ears, lips, chins, and jaws. The only things missing were the eyeballs, which Ed supplied himself when he wore the masks.
Wall Hangings: Ed Gein was kind of decorative but was much undisciplined. In his house, many bizarre artefacts were stacked and jumbled on the floors. These included a wastebasket made of human skin, a collection of noses and the head of victim Mary Hogan in a bag. Gein decorated the walls with different types of wall hangings but these were not just ordinary wall hangings or artefacts, these were hand made by Gein himself and by using several human body parts like fingers and noses.
Gloves: Gein’s wardrobe also included a number of accessories, such as an apron of his victim’s skin. Bizarre even for Gein was that he also owned a pair of wrist-length gloves in which the large, thick stitches follow the contours of the thumbs and fingers similar to those a coroner might use after performing an autopsy; which certainly resonates with the story that as he was lonely, he used to read a lot and probably by reading books he taught himself these skills. But the bizarre part about the gloves was that these gloves were completely made of human skin that he peeled off from his victim’s bodies.
Necklace: During my research; one thing that was popping out sometimes, was a necklace that was found in Gein’s house. Though there is no concrete evidence about its existence or it was really found in Ed Gein’s house or not but if the story is true and it was really found in his house then this necklace is the most horrific item ever found in any serial killer’s house, because this necklace was not an ordinary one, it was a tongue necklace. He used to cut off the tongues of his victims and then made it into a necklace.
So these were the top 7 items Ed Gein Made from Corpses of the dead. What you think, which one of these 7 was the most horrific one? Let me know your thoughts in the comment section.
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