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Lights Out

270: Netflix Botched Ed Gein… Here’s the Terrifying True Story

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True Crime, News, History

4.89.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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0:00.0

Light Out, everybody.

0:13.6

What's up, everybody?

0:14.4

Welcome back to another episode of Lights Out.

0:18.7

I'm your host Josh.

0:19.7

And I'm your host Austin. And I'm the producer Daniel and today we just had to because I've been seeing a lot of people talking about Ed Gein monster on Netflix and there's a lot of people I feel like don't really understand the full accurate story of Ed Gein.

0:41.1

And it's one that I haven't talked about or covered in a number of years.

0:46.5

And I thought, what a great opportunity to dive in deep.

0:50.4

And I've never covered it with you before either.

0:52.8

True.

0:53.1

And so I figured, hey, you know, while everybody's talking about it, let's, let's dive back

0:57.9

into it because I think there's a lot that people missed. Also, the show missed, which we'll talk

1:04.4

about, some major inconsistencies and inaccuracies. Straight up. Offensive. up. Some problematic inaccuracies there, yeah.

1:14.5

On a whole other level.

1:16.5

But I mean, Ed Gein is just one of those individuals who, man, I don't think he gets much more depraved than him.

1:25.4

I mean, he's just, he's kind of this enigma and just, we're all kind of like,

1:34.3

wondering, like, what happened here?

1:37.1

What happened with him?

1:38.6

Why did he do what he did?

1:39.9

And I think that's where most of us kind of find the curiosity for him is just trying to wrap our heads

1:46.4

around why he did what he did.

1:49.4

And especially when you put yourself back in the mid-1900s, it's like we didn't really even

1:54.9

coined the term yet really of a serial killer.

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