Listen "The Real-Life Texas Chainsaw"
Episode Synopsis
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasn’t born in Hollywood. It came from Plainfield, Wisconsin, 1957 — and from one quiet man named Ed Gein. To neighbors, he was harmless: a shy farmer who fixed fences and muttered to his late mother’s chair. But after her death, his house rotted around her sealed room.Then women began to vanish. A tavern owner. A shopkeeper. When police entered his farmhouse during a snowstorm, what they found would echo through every horror movie that came after. Furniture stitched together. Lamps carved from faces. And a rusted hook swinging gently in the cold.One deputy whispered, “We stopped counting after twelve.”Ed told investigators he wasn’t killing — he was rebuilding. Piece by piece, he was trying to make her live again.The world called him a monster. But this story isn’t about Leatherface. It’s about what happens when grief rots and love refuses to die.
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