realaustinite

OK I'm from Austin Texas. Born n raised! My grandma's dad was a deputy when this happened. This is not the original house... how this house looks like it I don't know. This did not happen in Waco in bastrop it is not fake! I have newspaper clippings. People say it's based on Ed Gein. Or Buffalo Bill. My mother was playing in the yard when the radio announced that a psychopath was killing people with a chainsaw. That gas station was one of the very few back then. People in Austin knew not to mess around with that area or family. The reason it is a hoax or based on true events doesn't mean it didn't happen... it didn't happen how portrayed in movie. My great grandfather told us it was a cover up and the producer of the original film said it was based on Ed Gein cuz of personal proprietary rights. Some say it was torn down and moved made into a museum or cafe or here this prop house. I was a little girl when my great grandfather told us and he passed. My grandma has passed. So as a child hearing the stories I dont have all the facts but we do have records bcuz he was a deputy... any true Austinite from the 70s w