Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story opens with Episode 1, “Mother!”. A chilling portrait of isolation, control, and the making of a killer. But how much of what we see is true, and how much is Hollywood horror dressed up as fact?

In this episode, we walk through Netflix’s dramatization, from Augusta Gein’s suffocating grip on her son to the suspicious death of Henry Gein. We’ll explore what the show got right about Ed’s real life, what’s exaggerated or invented, and why Netflix chooses to blur the line between fact and fiction.

Was Henry’s death really murder? Did Ed’s obsessions begin with Nazi atrocity magazines? And how much of the “mother fixation” was as extreme as the series portrays?

Join us as we uncover the truth behind the legend, separating the myth from the man, and the facts from the fiction.