A serial killer who has haunted pop culture for decades is getting the paranormal treatment. And Discovery+ is exclusively revealing the first trailer for its upcoming documentary, Ed Gein: The Real Psycho, right here at Decider. The documentary will mark the first time anyone has been allowed back on the Gein property to investigate, and this time they’ll be searching for ghosts.
Ed Gein’s case is one that’s almost too horrible to be believed. In November of 1957 Bernice Worden, a hardware store owner in Plainfield, Wis., went missing. Her disappearance led to authorities investigating Gein, who had visited the store the night before Worden went missing. They found their answers along with one of the most sickening crime scenes in American history. While searching Gein’s house, police found a wastebasket and chairs made of human skin, skulls on his bedposts, a corset made from a female torso, leggings made of human skin, and several other horrors. Officially Gein admitted to murdering Worden and Mary Hogan as well as stealing from nine graves in local cemeteries.
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The Gein story has been told time and time again in TV and film. He was the basis for Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses, and Bloody Face in American Horror Story: Asylum. But his real film legacy is serving as the inspiration for Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Now discovery+ is going back to the house of horrors where it all began.
The documentary will follow psychic medium Cindy Kaza and paranormal expert Steve Shippy as they investigate Ed Gein’s home. The documentary will also feature interviews from locals in the area as it dives into Gein’s brutal case. Ed Gein: The Real Psycho is set to premiere on discovery+ on Friday, April 9. Watch the trailer above and prepare to be spooked.