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0:00November 16, 1957 There was a hardware shop in the middle of a small town
0:09called Plainfield in Wisconsin State, USA, whose owner was an
0:12elderly woman named Bernice Warden.
0:13Whenever the people of the village needed anything, they used to come here.
0:16And that's why everyone knew Bernice well.
0:18His son was the deputy sheriff of Frank Warden Plainfield Town.
0:21On the evening of November 16, when Frank reached the store at 5 o'clock,
0:27the close board was hanging on the store.
0:28She was very surprised to see this because Because the store
0:31was always open till this time.
0:32Although the store's door was not locked, so he thought that maybe
0:35his mother must be working inside.
0:37But as soon as he entered the store, what he saw, he lost his mind.
0:41Fresh blood stains were scattered on the floor of the store and where some
0:45guns were kept in the racks of the store, one of them was a 22 caliber
0:49gun was kept away from its place.
0:51Apart from this, at the back door of the store, there were signs of being
0:55pulled by someone on the ground.
0:57All these things were clearly indicating that someone was inside the store.
1:00The local sheriff Arthur Schley was informed of this which was a small
1:08town where only 700 people lived and where the crime was almost zero.
1:12Therefore, this scene was truly scary.
1:14On top of that, this case was related to the mother of deputy sheriff Frank Warden.
1:18Therefore, Sheriff Arthur Schley came to the store immediately
1:22and started the investigation.
1:23There was a logbook in the store in which the customer's
1:26purchase information was written.
1:27When the pages of the shop's logbook were turned, the last entry in it
1:32was of a man named Ed Gein, who had come to buy antifreeze liquid.
1:36The people of the town considered Ed Gein a dimwit because he spoke less than
1:40anyone and was often lost in himself.
1:42He lived alone in a house like a big farmhouse.
1:45In the eyes of the townspeople, Ed Gein was such a person who did not
1:51understand much about the world.
1:52Because Ed Gein Warden's mother disappear for the last time.
1:59So Sheriff Arthur Schley and Frank Warden thought that maybe
2:02Ed Gein knew something about it.
2:04So they went to his house to inquire.
2:07When Arthur and Frank reached the deserted and rusty farmhouse, there was
2:11a strange heaviness in the air there.
2:13Ed Gein was not present there, but the door of the house was open.
2:18First they called Ed Gein many times, but when Ed Gein did
2:21not answer, they went inside.
2:23But as soon as they stepped inside the house, they felt a strange heaviness.
2:27It was so scary that Sheriff Arthur Schley came out and started vomiting.
2:32After a while, when he and Frank Warden somehow managed to get inside, the scene
2:36that came in front of them was enough to spoil anyone's mental stability.
2:41As soon as the light of the torch fell in the dark rooms, the first
2:45thing I saw was a human skull.
2:48Some of them were the same and some of them were given the shape
2:52as if they were everyday things.
2:55But this was nothing, as soon as the two policemen entered the house, their
2:59feet began to scratch the ground.
3:01They saw that the decoration in the house was not made of wood or
3:06cloth, but of human skin and bones.
3:09Things hanging on the walls, things in the cupboards and things in the
3:12corners of the room, everything was made of the human body.
3:15The belt and documents kept in a cupboard were also prepared in the same way.
3:20There were real skulls on all four corners of the bed of Ed Gein, which
3:24seemed to be part of a strange ritual.
3:26There were some masks in a corner of the room.
3:29When Sheriff looked at a mask carefully, he stopped breathing.
3:32That mask was not of anyone else, but of the face of the
3:36missing woman Mary Hogan in 1954.
3:38This scene was enough to shake someone's soul, but the scene found in
3:43the kitchen was even more disturbing.
3:45There, things related to the human body were in such a state
3:49that no one could even imagine.
3:51where some parts were boiling in the water on the stove, while the secret parts of
3:55the nine women were kept in the fridge.
3:58During the search, the police also found a women's suit from Ed Gein's house,
4:02which made the Sheriff Shlay shudder.
4:04This suit was made from the skin of different women and its purpose
4:08was to take the form of a woman.
4:10Everything present here was so heart rending that at that time
4:13the police were feeling as if they are standing in some alley of hell.
4:17But this horrific scene and the women found in the house
4:21What was the relationship of Ed Gein with these scary things?
4:25Which was considered only by the townspeople as a calm and wise man.
4:30What was the past of Ed Gein that revealed the scariest secrets of his life?
4:36And the biggest question is what happened to the mother of Deputy
4:40Sheriff Frank Warden, Bernice Warden?
4:42Was it just a coincidence that she disappeared or the most
4:46important link in this scary story?
4:48Let's know a story from the beginning that breaks the limits of human
4:53thought and can keep anyone inside.
4:57Ed Gein's full name was Edward Theodore Gein.
5:00He was born on August 27, 1906 in La Crosse Town, Wisconsin.
5:04His father George Gein, his mother Augusta Gein and his elder brother
5:08Henry George Gein lived in his house.
5:11Ed Gein's childhood was no less than a bad dream.
5:14His father used to drink a lot and often got drunk and beat his wife and children.
5:20While Ed Gein's mother Augusta Gein was a very religious woman.
5:24She was very strict with religious rules.
5:26she was a very strict sister, and she would never let her husband divorce her.
5:32However, she always considered marriage to George Gere as her topmost obligation
5:36and she had a bitter hatred towards him, She was so frustrated that when she was
5:43pregnant she didn't want a boy but when Henry was her firstborn and when his
5:49secondborn was born Angela told her with such hate that she had maybe done one big
5:55sin In this world, there will be very few children whose mother hates
6:00them, but Adgi has seen the bitterness of her mother's mind since childhood.
6:05He often used to hear taunts and he was mercilessly punished
6:08for every small mistake.
6:10Agastya had a strange fear of the outside world in his mind.
6:14He felt that evil was following him at every turn, which would devour his family.
6:19Those times were living in the city from lakhs, Agastya, a
6:25place to live, but a prison.
6:26She was a woman whose sinkhole of filth was filled with filth and sin.
6:31She believed that the humid air of the place would corrupt the soul of her sons.
6:36In order to save her family from this evil, she settled in a
6:40very small isolated town called Plainfield with the whole family.
6:44Even in Plainfield, she chose a deserted, remote farmhouse into the outskirts of the
6:48main area of the town, not the main area.
6:51He felt that if his two younger sons would meet the people of the village,
6:56including their bodies or lives.
6:58Due to this isolation, the world of her sons was limited to her voice only.
7:03She used to read her sons the Bible every day for hours but
7:08she never spoke of love or peace.
7:11Rather, her talks are filled with stories of sins, hell and death.
7:15She has put this thought into ed gein's mind.
7:34In the Plainfield farmhouse, he was growing up between hatred
7:37and cruelty of his mother.
7:39Whenever Ed Gein tried to talk to a girl, his mother would lock him in the
7:45room for hours, In this way, Augusta put Ed Gein Although Ed Gein's elder
7:54brother Henry was not so influenced by his mother's words, but Ed Gein's whole
7:58world was surrounded by his mother and he could not avoid any of her words.
8:03Ed Gein used to step out of the farmhouse without his mother just to
8:07go to school, but even there he could not get along like a normal child.
8:12He did not make any friends in school because his upbringing had taught him
8:16that the people outside are impure.
8:18He often said something like this while sitting in class.
8:21He was the only one who could understand him.
8:24Because of his behavior, he was often bullied in school.
8:28But the biggest problem for Ed Gein was that when he returned home, he
8:32did not get sympathy from his mother.
8:35As a result, after 8th grade, Ed Gein said goodbye to school and studies.
8:40Years passed and Ed Gein's life got stuck in a house.
8:44In the middle of 1940, when Ed Gein was 33 years old, his
8:48alcoholic father George Gein died.
8:50Who gave?
8:51After the death of his father, the responsibility to take care of
8:54the responsibilities of house came on both brothers.
8:56That's why he started spending all his time on his family's farmhouse and
9:00started working in the agricultural field.
9:02To manage the expenses of the house, they both used to do small jobs
9:06as handymen in Plainfield Town.
9:08Ed Gein often worked in people's homes to install windows, repair
9:11old roofs, paint on the walls, and fix the hair of the fields.
9:15His elder brother Henry was also a handyman.
9:17He did listen to his mother's words, but he did not agree with them.
9:22Despite his mother's dominance, he kept in touch with the outside world.
9:26Even his two child widow living in the pre infield was having an
9:30affair with his mother and he was thinking about moving with her soon.
9:34But in 1944, this dream of his remained a dream forever.
9:38In 1944, one day, Henry and Ed Gein were cleaning the bushes around the farmhouse.
9:43The two set up a pile of bushes together and set it on fire.
9:47But in a little while, the fire became so uncontrollable that Henry did not
9:52get a chance to handle it and he died.
9:54But the surprising thing was that without any post mortem, the cause of his death
9:59was told to suffocate, while he also had a severe head injury, which was ignored.
10:03After the death of his father and brother, Ed Gein had a deep shock, but
10:08his mother's shadow still held him.
10:10In addition to this, he was fond of reading books, which was the
10:13reason for his interest in life.
10:15Ed Gein had a large collection of books and magazines, which contained
10:19stories and news related to World War II and especially German atrocities.
10:22He used to read what kind of inhumane behavior was done to prisoners in Nazi
10:25concentration camps during the war.
10:27Those magazines had such news and pictures in which it was mentioned
10:33to be used with human organs,
10:46Magazines or human.
10:55that he looked simple or less intelligent from the outside.
10:58But there was a terrible storm brewing inside him that just needed a spark.
11:03And that spark was ignited when in December 1945, his beloved mother,
11:07Augusta, also died due to a stroke.
11:09The death of his mother left him shivering inside.
11:12He could not even imagine living a day without his mother.
11:15The death of his mother created such an emptiness in Ed Gein
11:19that it was impossible to fill.
11:21He spent hours sitting next to his mother's empty bed.
11:25Ed Gein was a poor orphan for the entire Plainfield Town, but behind
11:30the walls of that silent farmhouse, Ed Gein, who had been left alone,
11:35was mentally completely broken.
11:36In the memory of his mother, he made the whole house a kind of temple.
11:42He closed the rooms that his mother used and started living in
11:47a small bedroom near the kitchen.
11:50He spoke little to people and spent most of his time indoors. During those dark days of isolation, Ed Gein gradually began to hear whispers in his ears.
11:56Call it his delusion or the beginning of his madness, but 18 months after his mother's death,one night, driven by an extreme obsession, he went straight to the cemetery with a pickaxe and a shovel.
12:08In the darkness of the night, Ed started digging his mother's grave like a madman.
12:13His hands were not shaking while removing the soil, but there
12:16was a strange madness in them.
12:18When he opened the coffin and saw his mother's rotting
12:21body, he got a strange peace.
12:23He separated his mother's head from the body and brought it home with him.
12:28He used to sit next to his head and talk for hours.
12:31He felt that his mother was just in deep sleep and would
12:35wake up at any time and hug her.
12:37But he was not satisfied even by keeping his mother's head at home.
12:40He was missing his mother a lot.
12:42He now wanted to bring his mother back to life.
12:45And he wanted to feel her presence on his body.
12:48He thought that if he could somehow make a suit that looked like his mother, then
12:52he could wear it and feel his mother.
12:55He could feel her presence on his body.
12:57To make this suit, a devilish idea was born in his mind and this is where
13:03the process of digging graves and collecting human skin began, which
13:06turned him from an ordinary human being to the Butcher of Plainfield.
13:11He would go to the graveyard again and again, dig up the
13:14corpses and bring them home.
13:15After that, he would remove the skin of those corpses very
13:18cleanly and dry them and sew them.
13:19In this way, he made different parts of the suit.
13:37Chairs, gloves or purse,
13:41He used to read about them in magazines and books.
14:08He went to a bar in the town, where the owner was a woman named Mary Hogan.
14:13Her face resembled that of Ed Gein's mother.
14:15She knew Ed Gein very well, so she served a drink and started drinking with him.
14:20By that time, it was time for the bar to close, so there were only two of them.
14:26As soon as Mary Hogan turned to the other side for some work, Ed
14:31Gein shot him with his pistol.
14:32Why I do that?
14:33he hit her head with a bullet.
14:35And brought her home in a pickup truck.
14:37He did the same atrocity to Mary Hogan's corpse that he had been doing until now.
14:42There was a stir from the news of Mary Hogan's disappearance because crime was
14:46very few in a small area like Plainfield.
14:48They got along well after a long time.
14:51Until the police investigated the case, no one could have imagined that
14:55such a cowardly man could kill anyone.
14:58So they never doubted him and he kept roaming in the plain field.
15:03He thought that he would commit a crime and hide the dark truth behind
15:08his innocent face again and again.
15:10So he kept doing his dark deeds again and again.
15:14But on November 16, 1977, After the disappearance of the owner of the
15:18hardware store, Bernice Warden, when the police came to his farmhouse,
15:22the first time Ed Gein's horrific form came in front of everyone.
15:26Whatever Sheriff Arthur Schley and Deputy Sheriff Frank Warden had seen
15:30in his house, he had shaken them.
15:32Understanding the seriousness of the situation, the sheriff immediately
15:34called another police force.
15:35The entire police team was now looking for Deputy Sheriff Frank
15:37Warden's mother, Bernice Warden.
15:41Frank Warden's heart was being seated with the suspicion of an
15:44accident because of getting so many disturbing things from there.
15:48He was being fed this fear from inside that Ed Gein might have
15:52killed his mother like this.
15:54However, despite all this, Frank Warden continued to move forward while taking
15:57care of himself as a police officer.
16:00But when Frank Warden heard Ed Gein's voice, he was shocked.
16:02Hello And welcome back to our channel, who lived near a farmhouse,
16:10and he saw his family and announced the existence of a family.
16:17The family was found in an abandoned house and the man For a son, seeing
16:25his mother in this state was the biggest mental trauma in the world.
16:29Frank Warden was not even able to get out of that shock that a pickup
16:33truck comes out of the farmhouse.
16:35Ed Gein was sitting inside the truck, from which the police came to inquire only in
16:40the beginning, but the things that came out of his house changed the whole story.
16:44Ed Gein was not at all surprised to see the police there and instead
16:48of running like a cunning criminal, he slowly got out of the car and
16:52started looking at the police.
16:54The police immediately put handcuffs on his hands and arrested him.
16:57But despite this, there was no scar on his face and no fear.
17:01The police sealed his house and took him with them.
17:04As soon as the news of this incident reached the media, the next day,
17:09the headlines of the newspapers were only seeing the name of Ed Gein.
17:13The pictures of his house were published in the newspapers.
17:16In detail, it was written about the heart touching things found in his house.
17:20All this was so terrible and scary that Wisconsin State's small 700 people,
17:26suddenly came into the eyes of the whole world and a long line of media people
17:30began to appear outside his house.
17:32His house was being called House of Horror and Ed Gein was given the name of
17:37Butcher of Plainfield in the newspapers.
17:38The people of Plainfield were also surprised that how can a person who looks
17:42so straight be so cruel and dangerous?
17:45After this, Ed Gein's interrogation began.
17:49he did not open her mouth for 30 hours, but after that she put a
17:54strange demand from the investigators.
17:56he asked for an apple pie in a very childish way, which
17:58had cheddar cheese on it.
18:00As soon as he was given an apple pie to eat, he was happy like a child and
18:05the next moment he spoke her truth.
18:07he admitted that he had killed Mary Hogan and Bernice Warden.
18:10He confessed that on the morning of November 16, 1957, he went to Bernice Worden's store and killed her with a .22 caliber gun he found on a rack there.
18:13And he dragged it, put it in his pickup truck, and took it home. In addition to confessing to these two murders, he also admitted that he had dug up more than nine bodies from the cemetery during that time.
18:33surprising thing was that all the bodies were of women, but the police suspected
18:37that he had killed more people than those two women, who had been missing from
18:41the surrounding area for a long time.
18:43He was also suspected of missing a teenager girl, Evelyn Hartley, eight
18:47year old Georgia Weckler, and two friends named Victor Travis and Ray
18:49Burgess, who were never found again.
18:53But Ed Gein did not accept these allegations.
18:58Gein had also killed his brother Henry because his elder brother used
19:04to talk against his mother, which Ed Gein could not tolerate at all.
19:08This is also strong because at the time of his death, there were
19:12bruises on his brother's head, which the police had ignored.
19:15Because Ed Gein had accepted the murder of two women to remove nine
19:20bodies from the graves, he was soon presented in court for punishment.
19:26Everyone present wanted to see up close the monster who had shamed humanity.
19:29However, when he appeared in court, observing his strange behavior and statements, the court ordered a mental health evaluation before pronouncing any sentence.
19:41When a team of doctors examined Ed Gein, the reports shocked everyone. He suffered from a serious mental illness called
19:44schizophrenia.
19:46Because of this illness, he experienced
19:48hallucinations
19:55He really believed that his dead mother, Agastya Geen, speaks to him.
19:59In addition, he was also found to be a victim of necrophilia.
20:03In this disease, a person feels attracted to the dead.
20:07On the basis of these medical reports, the court declared Ed Geen unfit for trial.
20:12The judge believed that he was not mentally stable.
20:16The judge believed that, due to his mental condition, he was not capable of understanding the gravity of his crime, and therefore he was sent to a mental asylum instead of prison.
20:21A few weeks later, Ed Gein's Plainfield farmhouse and all its gruesome contents were scheduled to be auctioned off. But just one day before the auction, the house burned to the ground under mysterious circumstances.
20:29No one ever found out who burned down the house or why. Some even believed that the evil forces residing in the house
20:39had set it ablaze, reducing it to ashes so that the truth about the house would never be revealed.
20:47Ed Gein spent the next 10 years of his life in the same mental asylum where
20:51Ed's behavior was usually very calm, but he used to get delusional around every
20:55full moon and started talking weird.
20:56Finally, in 1968, the doctors declared him fit to face a trial in the case
21:00of the murder of Bernice Worden.
21:06After this, he was heard in the court and he was found guilty of murder.
21:10But looking at his mental state, he was declared not guilty by reason of insanity.
21:15After this, he stayed at the Mendota Mental Health Institute instead of jail.
21:19And finally, on July 26, 1984, he was sentenced to 37 years in prison.
21:23At the age of 70, he died of respiratory and heart failure at
21:28the Mendota Mental Health Institute.
21:30After Ergin's death, his terrifying shadow remained behind forever.
21:33But his strange and disgusting story changed the world of horror cinema.
21:39Inspired by it, Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of Lambs Many
21:44famous films were made in which the actors who played Ed Gein were forever
21:49attached to the name of their character.
21:51In addition, in October 2025, Netflix also made a series called
21:55Monster The Ed Gein Story on Gein.
21:58Even today, not only Plainfield, but in the history of America, this case
22:02is like such a wound that people want to forget, but they can't
22:06forget it even if they want to.
22:08If this story of Ed Gein has shocked you, then you should definitely
22:13see the story of Cyanide Mohan.
22:15Cyanide Mohan was such a serial killer who trapped innocent girls in
22:20marriage and made physical relations with them and then he would snatch
22:25everything from them and kill them.
22:28You can watch our previous video to know You will find its link in the description.

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