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September 18 - September 19, 2018
The “Ed Gein ghoul car” made its first public appearance in July 1958 at the Outgamie County Fair in Seymour, Wisconsin, where it was displayed for three days inside a large canvas tent covered with blaring signs—“SEE THE CAR THAT HAULED THE DEAD FROM THEIR GRAVES! YOU READ IT IN ‘LIFE’ MAGAZINE! IT’S HERE! ED GEIN’S CRIME CAR! $1,000 REWARD IF NOT TRUE!”
Two thousand people paid twenty-five cents each for a peek at the death car.
when darkness fell, all it took was a single threat from an exasperated parent—“If you don’t quiet down and get to sleep right now, Eddie Gein will come to get you!”—to subdue the most obstreperous child.
A peculiar fondness for “Crazy Ed” developed among them—similar to the popularity that Alferd Packer, the nineteenth-century cannibal, enjoys in Colorado, where the student cafeteria at the state university is named the “Alferd Packer Grill.”(A member of a six-man gold-hunting party that became snowbound in the Uncompaghre Mountains, Packer butchered and lived off the flesh of his companions. The legend goes that at his 1883 trial, the judge who sentenced him to hang declared in indignation, “Packer, there were only seven Democrats in all of Hinsdale County, and you ate five of them, you
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“If you have a bird in your hand,” said Eddie, “you might squeeze him too much and kill him.”
