standbesidethejedi:

In the house of Ed Gein the police found:

Human skulls mounted upon the corner posts of his bed

Human skullcaps, apparently in use as soup bowls

An array of “shrunken heads”

Skin fashioned into a lampshade and used to upholster chair seats

Skin from the face of Mary Hogan, a local tavern owner, found in a paper bag

A vest crafted from the skin of a woman’s torso

Socks made from human flesh

A sheath made from human skin

A human heart (it is disputed where the heart was found; deputy reports all claimed that the heart was in a saucepan on the stove, while some crime scene photographers claimed it was in a paper bag)

A window shade pull consisting of human lips

Four noses

Organs in the refrigerator

Pieces of salted genitalia in a box

Gein’s most notorious creations were an array of “shrunken heads.” Various neighborhood children — whom Gein occasionally babysat — had seen or heard of these objects, which Gein offhandedly described as relics from the South Seas, purportedly sent by a cousin who had served in World War II. Upon investigation, these turned out to be human facial skins, carefully peeled from cadavers and used by Gein as masks.

The skins from ten human heads were found preserved, and another skin taken from the upper torso of a woman was rolled up on the floor. There was a belt fashioned from carved-off nipples, a chair upholstered in human skin, the crown of a skull used as a soup-bowl, lampshades covered in flesh pilled taut, a table propped up by a human shinbones, and a refrigerator full of human organs. The four posts on Gein’s bed were topped with skulls and a human head hung on the wall alongside nine death-masks - the skinned faces of women - and decorative bracelets made out of human skin. The stunned searchers also uncovered a soup bowls fashioned from skulls, a shoebox full of female genitalia, faces stuffed with newspapers and mounted like hunting trophies on the walls, and a “mammary vest” flayed from the torso of a woman. Gein later confessed that he enjoyed dressing himself in this and other human-skin garments and pretending he was his own mother.

This is where the horror movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre comes from.

damn! fucking sick but sooo fucking intresting!