In 1957, an odd, soft-spoken man named Ed Gein shocked the nation. What they discovered on his remote farm in rural Wisconsin was the stuff of nightmares, and would go on to inspire many modern horror movies, including Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence of the Lambs. But the true story of Ed Gein, is so much worse.

Notes:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003L77UI4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

https://www.biography.com/people/ed-gein-11291338

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

All other music from this episode by the incredibly talented Kai Engel: Mist and Clouds, Snowfall Intro, Past the Lanterns, Morbid Imagination, Pacific Garbage Patch, Oneiri, Directing the Sirens, Sopor, Far From Home PON VII, Heart and Mind,

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

The witch trials that went on throughout the Middle Ages are quite well known today. What is less well known is that while these were going on, tens of thousands of people were also being tried and convicted for the crime of being werewolves. Hear the history of these trials, along with some very gruesome crimes that occurred throughout the middle age that were attributed to werewolves.

Merchandise:

https://society6.com/theconspiratorspodcast

 

Notes:

https://www.amazon.com/White-Devil-Werewolf-European-Culture-ebook/dp/B00G6N1JY6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528632024&sr=8-1&keywords=the+white+devil+Matthew+beresford

http://allthatsinteresting.com/hans-werewolf-trials

https://www.livescience.com/24412-werewolves.html

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

All other music in this episode is by Alex Mason and Alex Mason & The Minor Emotion.

Against Ghost, Emptiness, I Will Not Return, No More Words, It’s Time to Go,  Sunrise and Sunset

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason__The_Minor_Emotion/

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason/