Is it true that the Texas chainsaw masacre really happened? How did everything end? how did they figure out...

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what was going on? were there any survivors?

Answer 1

No, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre did NOT actually happen. However, it was LOOSELY BASED on a true story. The movies The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, and Silence Of The Lambs were all loosely based on the serial killer Ed Gein from Wisconsin. The events and contents of the house in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre were very similar to the things that Ed Gein did with his victims and the things that were found in his house. There was no chainsaw used and none of it happened in Texas.

Here are some links with more information about Ed Gein and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/gein/bill_1.html
http://www.txprisonmuseum.org/articles/tx_chainsaw.html
http://www.texaschainsawmassacre.net/Convinced.htm
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/texaschainsaw.php
http://austin.about.com/od/filmindustry/f/txchainsawtrue.htm
http://ccgi.neilsands.plus.com/cgi-bin/guestread.cgi?datafile=tcm
http://hometown.aol.com/xrealzx/chainsaw.html

I hope this helps. Have a great weekend!!

Answer 2

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Survivor

Answer 3

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Is it true that the Texas chainsaw masacre really happened? How did everything end? how did they figure out...
what was going on? were there any survivors?

Answer 4

On November 17, 1957, police in Plainfield, Wisconsin arrived at the dilapidated farmhouse of Eddie Gein, who was a suspect in the robbery of a local hardware store and disappearance of the owner, Bernice Worden. Gein had been the last customer at the hardware store and had been seen loitering around the premises.

Gein's desolate farmhouse was a study in chaos. Inside, junk and rotting garbage covered the floor and counters. It was almost impossible to walk through the rooms. The smell of filth and decomposition was overwhelming. While the local sheriff, Arthur Schley, inspected the kitchen with his flashlight, he felt something brush against his jacket.

When he looked up to see what it was he ran into, he faced a large, dangling carcass hanging upside down from the beams. The carcass had been decapitated, slit open and gutted. An ugly sight to be sure, but a familiar one in that deer-hunting part of the country, especially during deer season.

It took a few moments to sink in, but soon Schley realized that it wasn't a deer at all, it was the headless butchered body of a woman. Bernice Worden, the fifty-year-old mother of his deputy Frank Worden, had been found.

While the shocked deputies searched through the rubble of Eddie Gein's existence, they realized that the horrible discoveries didn't end at Mrs. Worden's body. They had stumbled into a death farm.

The funny-looking bowl was a top of a human skull. The lampshades and wastebasket were made from human skin.

A ghoulish inventory began to take shape: an armchair made of human skin, female genitalia kept preserved in a shoebox, a belt made of nipples, a human head, four noses and a heart.

The more they looked through the house, the more ghastly trophies they found. Finally a suit made entirely of human skin. Their heads spun as they tried to tally the number of women that may have died at Eddie's hands.

All of this bizarre handicraft made Eddie into a celebrity. Author Robert Bloch was inspired to write a story about Norman Bates, a character based on Eddie, which became the central theme of the Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho.

In 1974, the classic thriller by Tobe Hooper, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has many Geinian touches, although there is no character that is an exact Eddie Gein model. This movie helped put "Ghastly Gein" back in the spotlight in the mid-1970's.

Years later, Eddie provided inspiration for the character of another serial killer, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. Like Eddie, Buffalo Bill treasured women's skin and wore it like clothing in some insane transvestite ritual.

Answer 5

It is "based" on a true story, which means that the real thing happened in a slightly different way...

Well, in a very different way... the guy did not even have a chainsaw! honest!

Anyway his real name was Ed Gein if you want to learn more about him try this link:

http://www.houseofhorrors.com/gein.htm

Hope it helps ;)

Answer 6

no offence, texas chainsaw massacre, the movies, and the whole story with the movies, is bullsh!t, he didnt use a chainsaw, he used a jigsaw(another type of saw, but you can;t carry it around or swing it anywhere), and it wasnt a massacre, he only ever killed two mormons, and there were no survbivors.

he got caught because he moved to the uk, where he met a woman, and the police veventually traced his whereabouts to the murders in america, after he had threatened to kill his UK gf.

and it has nothing to do with ed gein the other notorious american serial killer, as far as i know

Answer 7

http://austin.about.com/od/filmindustry/f/txchainsawtrue.htm







Peace.

Answer 8

From what i understand yes it did happen, the guy was still alive (the killer) and he escaped to either Virginia or South Carolina, i dont know anything else

Answer 9

I would like to ask the same question as the person above.

Answer 10

the story is not true. it is based on a guy in wisconsin named ed gein who murdered,skinned and then wore the skin.