This is about serial killer Ed Gein. In the early 1940s, his mother, father, and brother all died, leaving Gein isolated on their farm in Wisconsin. He began digging up corpses of women who had recently died, and eventually moved on to murder, killing at least two women between 1954-1957.
Gein was used as inspiration for serial killer characters in several movies, including Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence Of The Lambs, and Psycho. He is also the subject of the Blind Melon song "Skinned" and the Slayer song "Dead Skin Mask."
The band's singer, Kud, was quoted saying this song is about "Not a serial killer, but a necrophiliac, cannibal, whatever you want to call him - and he had certain things that could be associated with the moon and he did things under the moon light that I think were important to him."
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