Step inside the quiet farmhouse of Ed Gein in Plainfield, Wisconsin, and you’d think it was just another cluttered home in a small town. But nothing inside those walls was ordinary. Investigators who entered discovered lampshades stitched from human faces, chairs covered in skin, and bowls made from skulls. What appeared to be furniture was a nightmare come to life. The man who lived there had turned his victims—and the graves he robbed—into household décor. Ed Gein wasn’t just a killer; he was