In the winter of 1957, the rural town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, was thrust into national horror when investigators stepped inside the farmhouse of Ed Gein, only to uncover a nightmarish collection of human remains turned into masks, clothing, and household décor. Gein, a reclusive handyman shaped by an obsessive devotion to his mother and a lifetime of isolation, blurred the line between grief, delusion, and ritual. His crimes would go on to birth some of the most iconic monsters in American film, but the reality was far stranger than fiction. In this episode, we trace the path from Gein's suffocating childhood to the macabre discoveries that stunned the world, and examine how his Virgo Sun, Sagittarius Moon, and Gemini Rising reflect the unsettling mix of compulsive ritual, moral distortion, and fractured identity that defined the Ghoul of Plainfield.

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