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Ed Gein ’s isolated farmhouse in Plainfield, Wisconsin, is almost as notorious as the grave robber, who is the subject of the hit Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story , h imself. But unlike the Lizzie Borden House, which we’ll see extensively in the next season of Netflix’s Monster , the location of Gein’s gory past is no longer standing.

The crude, unheated house—where authorities discovered Gein kept a macabre shrine to his deceased mother, Augusta , and the remains of his victim, Bernice Worden—became a popular tourism site after Gein’s 1957 arrest. Nearby residents worried their typically quiet community would be under siege from morbidly curious onlookers.

However, Gein’s property quickly met its demise, and its true fate remains the subject of mysteri

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