The Ghoul of Plainfield | Plainfield Cemetery, Wisconsin
About this episode
Kristin explores the haunting history of Plainfield Cemetery, the burial site of notorious body snatcher Ed Gein.
In this episode of The Grim, Kristin opens the gates to Plainfield Cemetery in Plainfield, Wisconsin—a modest Midwestern burial ground rooted in pioneer history, where the quiet rows of headstones conceal one of the most disturbing legacies in American true crime. Home to the earliest settlers of rural Wisconsin, the cemetery is perhaps best known today as the final resting place of Ed Gein—a body snatcher who robbed the very graves he now lies among, buried unmarked between his mother and br...
Topics covered
- true crime
- cemeteries
- American history
- Ed Gein
- burial grounds
- pioneer history
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