Talk:Ed Gein#Removing fabrications
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Mental health?
Was Gein ever diagnosed with a mental disorder? 50.75.17.106 (talk) 14:56, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
:Schizophrenia. Discussed a bit in the Trial section. Larry Hockett (Talk) 16:08, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
:What 2600:1700:8790:3090:C963:2E33:34A9:188B (talk) 14:59, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
Skinned by Blind Melon inclusion in "Pop Culture"
Skinned, Track 4 of Soup (Blind Melon album) is a whole song about Ed Gein, (Not just a peripheral reference to him.) On the other hand, no matter how good the song is (imho), or how critically acclaimed the album, I doubt this reference could be considered culturally relevant at the level of Psycho (1960 film). I am nevertheless adding this here in talk so others can be aware it was at least considered. Hardgumbo (talk) 20:26, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
Source 16 is sketchy
The Smith dog story fits Augusta’s general vibe but is that “men’s news daily” blog post (let’s be honest, it’s a blog post, not an article) really the best source we have for it? The page is full of bizarre mojibake (every quotation mark has become “““ and every apostrophe “’”, presumably by being recursively mangled by a Unicode parsing screwup multiple times) and the author neither cites any real sources for the Smith story or suggests that they did original research for it which makes it sus