The Graveface Museum HORROR Exhibits- John Wayne Gacy, Church of Satan, Ed Gein and MORE 4K

whenever I come bad luck just my way wherever I go hard luck is that isfe good luck never stays a day B always to my [Music] way welcome to Savannah Georgia our old stop grounds in fact this square that we're standing in right now this is where we got married it's a very uh very special place to us Savannah has creepy churches beyond beautiful historical houses pretty much on every corner you can pretty much find Spanish moss in every single tree here just remember don't touch it there's Little Critters that live up inside it you can take a bus tour throughout the different squares here in Savannah during the day it's like a historical tour and at night time it turns into a ghost tour so it's something for everybody now here's the thing we only have a few hours here in Savannah and to us the creepiest the strangest the weirdest thing that you could do in this entire town is not anything to do with the ghosts it's a little Museum down on Riverwalk called the grave face musicum [Music] hello uh my name is Chloe and my husband and I my husband and I run the grayface museum and I'm going to bring you on in and show you a little bit about what we have happen here what is he doing I don't know all right so because we're closed today we all have to go through the tiny baby door so follow me this is right up your alley baby go all right so the museum is a true criman A's Museum we cover lots of different topics throughout recent history ranging from Cults and True Crime to S Show history roadside attractions the occult and Satanism so it's kind of an amalgamation of things that we've acquired over the years Ryan specifically has collected um in his many decades of acquiring things so we're going to head on in through the mouth of Satan and get everything started so this room was built to emulate roadside attractions that were popular in the 40s and 50s big parts of roadside attractions have been animals um taxs that are made uh naturally occurring at anomalies specifically Clementine for example is a five-legged cow and then we have some two-headed animals in the corner of the room uh little piglets are probably my favorite and out of everything in the room this might be my favorite piece in general this is an adorable pair of lambs they look like they're hugging cuz they were conjoined at the waist so they didn't really have a choice and yeah they look so fluffy and lovable I know and I didn't actually know that Lambs had really long tails when they were born yeah they get sheared or they get cut off cuz they are easier to Shear yeah so that's a fun fact but yeah they were Taxidermy in the 1850s so very very old piece of Taxidermy very neat and then on the flip side of the natural stuff we have a bunch of gaffs so all of these shrunken humanoid creatures were made by this guy named Homer Tate who is a really prolific Gaff artist he was around in the 40s and 50s mostly making stuff to sell tode chosen roadside attractions uh fish girl is a big highlight and a popular one in here um she was made with his uh wife's hair his dead cat's teeth and the arm of a mummified Turtle uh Homer Tate was a creative guy he also ended his career very abruptly because he was actually caught digging up human remains to make shrunken heads he was successful in this endeavor until he was arrested so he did make a few shrunken heads we do have a total of three shrunken heads in this room only one of them is real though I'll let you analyze and try to pick out what one is real over here correct so there's these two over here in the corner correct and then there's this little one over here with a really long hair okay oh come on do you want me to tell you no no okay so all right so there's this guy here let's get a to look at them and these over here okay I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna say something okay I I watched an episode of a TV show where they talked about um shrunken heads and how to tell o okay and I couldn't see any on there so I don't know but I remember them saying something along the lines of um fake shrunken heads don't have ear holes or nose holes yes or something like that but which one's real well so those are typical shrunken heads that are made from people that know what they're doing um this guy dude his best so this one was made with actual human remains before he was caught this one right here in the middle hello hello so another thing worth mentioning in this room is all of the wood on the wall this burnt wood came from a hoodoo house that was lived in by a lady her name was ailia Baker she also went by the name Madame truth cuz she was a really well-known psychic and teller in Savannah in the early 1900s so she passed away in the 70s and her house sat abandoned for quite some time burnt down just a few years ago luckily Ryan and I were able to rescue some of the wood from the property with the family's permission before it was just thrown away so that's where this burnt wood came from and then when we did some build outs in here some things that we were seeing on the blueprint weren't lining up to what we were seeing in real life so this little corner we should have had a closet here but we just saw an unfinished plywood wall so we pride it off trying to find that closet and I have a flashlight here so all of this stuff that's way back in here that was left behind by somebody we don't know exactly who left the stuff here on city of paper the place was abandoned um and now obviously it wasn't set up like it is right now we had so many local who practices hoodoo set up like a little alter space using what was back there so yeah people have left little Trinkets and offering since we've opened so that's what the little shelf of good look baby do you want to look at it you want to look at the hole in the wall everyone would everyone does look at the little tiny duckies I know people leave the cutest little offerings yeah now thank you guys there I was wondering where you went Ryan I want we want to thank you guys for opening this up on your day off and I and I know this is going to sound like a commercial all right trust me this is not supposed to be like that but um we're taking basically the tour you're giving us a tour that like anybody who comes here this is this is what they'd be getting more or less yeah we're highlighting some stuff because it's this room usually give some context um because a lot gets missed and then you're it's like a 50% guided 50% not guided museum at this point and full disclosure before we even started this I said just pick out like three or four things so there I mean just walking in this room there are things everywhere to see and that's the thing it's like we try to highlight a few things for as many people as possible but there's other than what I'm just telling you about there's a lot to dive into right I want to see more let's go see more H yeah all right right so this room is the Anton La exhibit we just opened this in April of uh last year so this is a very new exhibit and this is actually all from Anton L's grandson so this is a very large display it's the largest um satanic Church of Satan display um currently um this is insane yeah now yeah so this is all stuff that was P like a range of things that were passed down to U his grandson Stanton over the years things that he had Acquired and kept we have some very interesting like over here is a very life lifik Anton L sculpture it was made by a artist in Canada and that is exactly what Anton Le looked like you know I knew that you guys had this and I forgot that you had it to be honest but I remember whenever you guys put this on um I think you announced it on on Instagram or social media that this was happening and I was like oh man I don't think I'm ever going to get there to see it a here we are oh sure yeah so this is this is insane so aside from the Anton Le likeness which is incredible it's like I'm standing here looking at right so to pick out a couple things that stand out to me this case is probably the most heavy-hitting stuff so this is a personal ashtray that Anton L owned it was in his house um the black house it was on California which we actually did a video on oh nice yeah very cool and U I don't mean to cut you off yeah but fun little fact about this they tore down the black house and the it's a condo now it's a three level condo I think it is and the first numbers of each of the the house numbers go 666 shut up that's awesome right right all right so go back to it I love that I did not know that that's amazing and then Anton's wife Diane she was the co-founder of the Church of state and we have a whole blurb on her these are two Medallion she made in the early days of the Church of Satan and this is probably the most rare piece in here this is a painting that Anton Le did when he was about 14 15 years old yeah so it's some and you know he wasn't known to be an artist he wasn't a super prolific painter or anything he was an excellent musician he was a great musician and he did doodle we have some Doodles actually at our other location in Chicago um we have a lot of stuff from Stanton that we had acquired over the years cuz Ryan had been friends with him for years and this is just all the stuff that we decided to with him to make a whole exhibit a dedicated Anon L definitive Church of Satan exhibit that's open to the public wow yeah so there's one other thing I wanted to really highlight and it's one of my favorite pieces I think in here it's this very simple looking robe but it was a robe that was worn by Diane in the like in her Church of Satan days it was worn at black masses this is the actual garment on display and then we also have some original photos that Stanton had kept over the years that's Anton's wife Diane she was a badass she actually did all of the kind of behind the scenes dealings of the church so she answered all the letters from members and people that were joining asking questions she edited all of his books and was just an awesome lady and she passed away in um just mid I think Midsummer of last year or 2022 rather keep forgetting is 2024 right like man I'm bad with the DAT tripping yeah yeah so she passed away in mid 2022 so I have to say this I feel like we're walking through some sort of like decrepit basement that's what it feels like yes right hopefully in the best way so where are we right now so we're in the satanic Panic area this is kind of the aftermath of the Church of Satan now obviously public perception of what Anton Le did versus the reality not all the same obviously he was an atheists didn't actually worship the devil these are all people that blamed um doing terrible things on Satan like David Berkowitz the Son of Sam and Ramirez and um and Robin gch the Chicago Ripper crew leader so that is this little blur we also have a blur on Damen Eckles and a little section for him so then moving into here we get into the Odd Fellows specifically and they are a Fraternal Order that's pretty interesting and do you know much about the Odd Fellows a little bit okay A little bit so they formed in the 1700s in the UK or originally um the io is the international order of the Oddfellows so that's what you'll see in the US so any building that has those IO and like three interlock chains that's an odd fellow's building or Lodge and so they typically they're just a Fraternal Order charitable doter basically but they had a lot of really creepy imagery and they used a ton of human remains in their rituals or even just the imagery and iconography of death skulls and crossbones and there was a lot of um the ideas with their initiations we're facing your immortality to be a good person in this life and kind of force you to kind of reconcile with your ultimate demise and so you'd have like this is a carved human skull that was part of the odd fellow's rituals now they're a secret society so what were they doing with this I don't specifically know and we've asked so many people that collect oddfellow stuff more about this and this is actually the only one that we know to exist and that anybody we have met over the years that collects this kind of stuff has seen so well that's the thing about like the odd fellas like you hear a name like that you know the imagery and if somebody doesn't know it's like okay this is like some sort of like society that you don't want to mess with and then the funny thing about that is in almost every town almost every town I should say there is an oddfellow Cemetery so I mean they were pretty big oh sure yeah yeah very big yeah similar they're similar to like the Masons and again Fraternal Order kind of stuff so in this room aside from the skull I have to ask you got some stuff over here can we talk about this guy absolutely so this is an articulated skeleton um not just any skeleton this is Ryan's great great-grandfather Ryan your husband's yes oh okay so Grandpa works here so this works here he seems to like it but yeah this is an example of what would happen so a lot of Oddfellows would donate their bodies to science and then they would be repurposed later by the Oddfellows so you could wholesale purchase basically as the lodge human remains but a lot of universities and again like doctors and stuff had some in with the Oddfellows and so that's how a lot of the people that were in the Oddfellows made their way back to The Lodges permanently as skeletons that were used in rituals as opposed to just random ones now some people use papier-mâché too but yes real human skulls are pretty common and skeletons in general and there's faces up there on the wall yeah so during initiations this okay so let's put it in context a bit this is a executioner robe no they weren't actually executing people that was one of their initiations that would simulate a near-death experience and a new initiate would be blindfolded taken to an undisclosed location stuck in this Guillotine that looked really convincing all of the people surrounding him like these other people that were members of The Lodge would be wearing these masks that are very effective for disguising identity surprisingly but they look very scary and then executioner would drop the guillotine but it would stop before your neck I think one of the very first times Ryan are you around here Ryan what where you at where' he go they're they're hiding so we're talking about these masks in here yeah and I just realized I had this weird flashback to I think one of the very first times that we met or hung out with you you were wearing one of these masks and it might have been a marshmallow ghost performance that makes so he was probably wearing this robe too I I think so I think so the the Executioner Ro that's a that's a regular Halloween costume for tri or treat in this one yes that was my trick or treat I think that's the pretty lady mask cuz one of them has yeah you can be this wire it would cut into the the sides of my head when I would trick or treat yeah so the fishing line that it's actually like hung by that's not what we did to display it that was just Ryan's like go-to mask yeah his go-to mask we just hung up and this is why we're all friends it just makes sense say hi to Grandpa we added uh my relatives paintings too mhm that's really good that's the definition of keeping it in the family yeah oh there's more over here too I mean they're not good but there is now before we move to the next location we're passing these beautiful pinball machines and one of the the beauty beautiful things about this place when you come here and you see a bunch of creepy stuff you can actually play some creepy pinball machines now this one right here is alviva and the party monsters now we have a Story Don't We Baby G we do so tell the viewers about us and this pinball machine one of our first correspondences if you will like way before we even met way before we ever met kind of what catapulted us into becoming friends is that you had posted on Instagram about playing an alvir pinball machine and I grew up playing the exact same machine and I had commented under your post about my story and everything and that really was our very first I I went back and looked I dug it up our first ever contact with each other was over an alvir pin ma machine not this one but so it's it's always something that's in our hearts every time I see it I get a little and then many years later we have this crazy thing called the Grim life yeah now at the end of this hallway that we're walking down right now I'm going to turn the camera so you guys can see this there is a giant house baby gou this house wasn't here the last time that we came to visit they built this and I know what's inside you guys don't but you're going to see it in just a moment this is this is this is nuts these people are nuts nuts so before we get to the house um we'll have some more light-hearted stuff before the really gross stuff and these are all uh this is our Sideshow exhibit so we have a lot of incredible old photos from uh and cdvs from various Sideshow performers over the years probably my favorite area is this whole Captain Dawn exhibit he was a sword swallower fire breather human pin cushion he did everything he was the one one stop sh Sideshow basically and he was also a very fun artist these are some of his banners that he painted himself of himself and just some really unique things that you don't really get to see from some SRO performers uh as you know a lot of this isn't preserved super well and then like I mentioned the gross stuff this whole exhibit is deep diving on the edgin exhibit so or deep diving on the edgin case so you know who is oh yeah so we've actually went and did a big video on it and last time we were here th this was in a separate area yes and there was some things that you guys had that just blew me away and then I walk in now you have a a whole house made a house for it his house yeah oh God okay so we recreated Loosely his house so the first floor because what we were noticing when the exhibit it was much smaller scaled um we hardly displayed a fraction of what we had up in the True Crime room when you were in here last so we expanded on the stuff that we do have and then we Al were noticing a lot of people there was still a lot of fuzziness and misconceptions like involved in the case so a lot of people interpret things from psycho and things from the Texas Chainsaw masacre as the reality of the Edan case when that's just not what happened so there's a lot of misconceptions that were kind of debunk on the first floor so it's going to be like walking through an over-the-top gross horror movie set that was inspired by Ed um it is a lot of again very gruesome stuff that you'll see and we're going to go through misconceptions and then upstairs we're going to go through the reality of the case with the real exhibit and artifacts now real quick before we go in there I don't know what to expect but I will say this they had to go inside there by themselves and turn something on and I'm trying to prepare myself oh wow yeah yeah there's a lot happening in here so we'll go through a couple different things first main misconception that we would hear over the years was that Ed made stuff out of um human remains specifically lampshades though no evidence that we can actually point to we have all of these transcripts from the guy who did all the polygraphs with them and interviews we have a lot of lists of what they did find in his house in that was not lampshad so we do have a lampshade over here and then there's one on the fridge behind you but that's the cooler looking one so wa so he did not there's no evidence of him making lampshades out of people not to mention so this is just something that was created corre okay yeah so the first like wow so the first floor yeah it's all the like misconceptions these are all props that were made with Ed gain in mind specifically the misconceptions that spun up around him yeah and so this is a nice silicone face lamp and yeah so his house not to mention didn't have electricity so he wasn't needing to make lampshades for the lamps he didn't own and couldn't use even if he really really wanted to so that is one misconception number one this is a chair this does ride the line of fact and fiction there were two chairs taken out of his house both of them were made using human remains they did not look anything like this they didn't have hair and noses and faces on them they just look like normal chairs when we go upstairs I will try to remember to point out the photo with the actual chairs in them cuz we do have an original evidence photo and then the mannequin touches on a couple of things this is Warden right to yeah to a degree we had to tone it down a lot like we you know you get the idea enough the only similarities because the state that she was found in was much more gruesome and terrible um the only similarities were the removal of genitalia which actually did happen however the removal of the nipples that is our nod to the nipple belt that is 100% fiction uh it did not exist and upstairs we'll go through why there were so many misconceptions about the case um in a little bit more detail gotcha gotcha so coming up the stairs um you're seeing some really gnarly crime scene photos and those are all Chicago mob hits and they do tie into this case in a really interesting way so the guy who took all of these photos coming up the stairs was this fellow his name was Joe willamowski he's the guy who later in his career became the polygraph expert for the Wisconsin crime lab he did every single interview with Edge got confessions out of him of course did his polygraph test so we have all their transcripts and we that's how we're able to verify some of the things that actually were pulled out of the house some of the things that were happening and first really have some things that weren't of course can I just say that like walking through the museum I was like okay like this is a museum this is a museum walking through an actual house yes is a different level I feel like I'm on like some sort of like horror MTV Cribs like so welcome to my crib yeah welcome to my cribs what else we got here so continue yes so so Joe willamowski and his brother Allan he also worked the G case he was a ballistics expert but the two of them combined is how we actually have everything that you're seeing in this room these documents photos and artifacts from the case came about through their their Estates collectively okay and so this is that photo I was going to point out um these two photos I will mention that is an original photo of evidence that's a bunch of human bone fragments that were found onan's property looks like nothing when you're far away but zoomed in it's pretty intense and then this is all the evidence that was taken out of his house it was put in bags and processed at the Wisconsin crime lab those were the two little chairs that were taken out of his house found to be made using human skin so they just again look like normal chairs not like the one we had downstairs of course so that evidence was processed and it nothing immediately went to trial because Gan was not competent to stand trial right off the bat he was criminally insane so they put him in an institution for about 10 years then in 1968 the case finally goes to trial but they acquit him of every single crime except for one murder which was the murder of Bernie Warden behind you are some pretty nasty crime scene F of how she was found then that's the prosecutive summary of the case coroners report but in a nutshell that's what went to trial nothing else because when they got all this evidence nobody had a search warrant they didn't need one in the case of Bernice CU they were trying to find her they grabbed all this other stuff which they totally weren't able to so they weren't able to legally use it in the trial not to mention they had already drugged the case out for like 10 years so it was kind of a matter of like let's just get this done and that's what happened so what happens to the inadmissible evidence they burn it including the evidence photos which is why if you hop on Google right this second and you you search Edge evidence it's not like you won't see anything you'll see stuff it's just all stuff that was made using like the inspiration of edin but it's mostly silicone and special effects no different than what we have downstairs so I've this this is a question to put to both you and Ryan um I have never been around anybody or seen an article or read anything that has accumulated so much about G like this is insane this is the only public dis of of Edan artifacts like actual artifacts from the case there's cuz there's just not much left really we were shocked that this existed and it was just there's a museum in Vegas that pretends they have a cauldron or something like that but the I was at that auction and the auctioneer stated that it might be Gans cuz it was from the same city but that is not proof that it was g at all other than that there's nothing I mean some people have like he he mailed some letters and so there's some cutesy stuff but pertaining to the and some of the gruesome stuff that doesn't exist I mean the the pictures behind you have never been published like we should probably write a book quite frankly yeah right yeah now can I ask a question it might sound like a stupid question but I'm actually genuinely genuine I can't say the word genuinely curious yes when it comes to his house burning down what's your take on that oh the city probably some people in the city definitely burned his house down you think it was like it was an intentional arson likely likely because they just they knew that it was right before the the auction that was going to take place at his property right was the night before they burned it down they weren't looking for spectacle no they didn't want it to become a you think it was like the town's folk that did it yeah nobody was charged with arson but it was arson gotcha so it was more of a like oops okay well not even not even a question yeah yeah also he wasn't technically a a serial killer cuz he did kill two women not three or more but I do think that personally I think he did kill his brother Henry I don't know if you guys have brother but I I I I believe there's probably other too but the brother would be the obvious choice that's a lot of a lot of people believe believe that one there's one thing I always like to highlight in this room specifically because the evidence was of course destroyed that we know of and there's one living piece of of human remain evidence of him making stuff out of V out of people's remains that actually has survived and it's in this room it's this little piece of hair it's a keychain and it was take it was given to Alan willamowski I don't know why he kept it but he did so it was not destroyed because it was never cataloged as evidence and it has edgin's name he wrote his address on the back is the Shell service station which happened to be right across the street from where Bernie warten was actually murdered and we unfortunately don't know exactly whose Hair It Is it could have been a grave robbing victims of course right so I kind of lean toward it might be his mom's hair and you know she was he was obsessed with her as a way of coping with her abuse all the victims looked like or resembled her reminded him of her in some capacity so if it is his mom's hair that means that that is the first thing ever made out of human remains because we know it was taken postmortem it there was still scalp attached to it so if that is the case that's disturbing on many levels but right yeah and his mom did actually have she had long dark hair and um yeah and the fact that this even exists and like I mean it's behind glass so I mean I can't touch it but I'm guessing that you guys have touched this have like that's well it's funny because we again were nobody knows whose hair it was so when we received this stuff I remember Ryan had already gotten everything out and was like playing with the papers and looking through stuff and he asked if I wanted to hold the hair and my first thought was I think it's his mom's hair and he said to that I thought the exact same thing the first time I held it wow so that was interesting and you know fast forward now we've had this museum for a while now we've had this exhibit live for a couple years and there was just a family from Wisconsin that came in and from around the area but one guy actually knew about the hair cuz the tour guide was telling him about he's like oh I know about that cuz my grandparents always told me he carried a lock of his mom's hair around with him before the tour guide even got to telling them about this hair he was just like I didn't know I would ever see that she like how did you know it existed so so that was interesting to kind of corroborate and specifically that it was his mom's hair he was carrying around so that's that was interesting and yeah little stories and whatnot again there's plenty of them but okay we're in the cult and true crime area now so there are a lot of cult related stuff that you you'll probably recognize through recent history of the Manson family Jonestown Heaven's Gate so Heaven's Gate is very fascinating um we've become actually really close friends with Sawyer who is an ex-member he's where we got some of this stuff and so we try to again acquire a lot of stuff from just meeting people who were directly impacted and tied to these different cases people and things so a lot of interesting stories come along with them and the flip side of the Heaven's Gate cult stuff we have Jonestown and probably the flavorade packs are the most heavy hitting thing in here I in my opinion they're one of those just innocuous small these right up here yeah so those were taken from Jonestown from the scene by a member of the military who was there at the cleanup and again they're just something you would look at and think out of context this is just garbage and meanwhile they're tied to something so much bigger now that's Jim that's a papier-mâché jym a papier-mâché jym but those are actually his glasses so he would give he would carry an extra pair of glasses around with him and give them as like gifts and calling cards to mostly ladies that he would find attractive so those came about through a person who lives in Savannah whose aunt was a member of the people's Temple who received a pair of those glasses and that was a very is one of those again little things that we didn't we didn't know that little part but that's an interesting story again another example why we're all friends here because I mean we did a video on uh the church that when it was in Los Angeles but I have to ask which one of you two has has put on the glasses I mean I I do all the time you do all the time so do you remember should I tell him about when they disappeared into a Vortex wait what the the glasses so before we had the museum we would travel with some of these items just do pop-up Galleries and that's how we raise Capital to build a makes sense right cuz we had some of this stuff and it was just yeah we travel around the country with it and the glasses would come on the road with us of course they would always be in this little baggie that we got them in originally that says father Jones 1960 bubble wrapped and put with all the other stuff so there would be months between different shows and we were packing for one and Ryan said did you see the Jim Jones glasses and I was like oh yeah I saw them they were in this box that I packed them into at the last event let me go grab them they weren't there uh I went through all cuz we had probably four or five boxes I went through every single one of them like emptied them out dumped out little bags of stuff I'm and I did not find them so then and this is in Ryan's office area so limited space that's the only place they would go however I searched our warehouse our house the store the record store and his office again couldn't find them this and then weeks go by and it was eating away at me we were also fighting we were ALS cuz he was like you lost them they're irreplaceable I wasn't happy no and also the guy that we got them from we didn't like he wasn't trying to sell them like technically those are just on loan we didn't pay a pen because he wants them to be seen he thought it was a cool story that should be shared and that was before we even had the museum you had those in the record store so so yeah we were you know it was bugging me so much and you were annoyed I was mad and frustrated and I went to look for them again and they were on top of a box inside of a clown hat that you also we were traveling was tied into this but it was right it was right there I didn't go through anything I have no clue but that was the box that I remember them being in so where the hell they went I don't know but I found them and I thought that he was with me and brought them back I think my anger for like the week on end was proof that I was F yeah I I don't actually but at first I was like oh you found them why didn't you tell me he was like what are you talking about I said they're right there we went through this box you were with me yeah I don't know don't know what happened but but you said they were on they were on a a box of a clown yes now is this the same clown where you have his ashes is that you're talking cuz he had a little hat yeah he had a hat and it was really like I was a hard hard clown hat so it was really protective that's why I put them in in there and I remember that and I remember seeing the clown hat when I was looking for them and the corpse of a clown was housing housing yeah and at some point they went into a little Vortex and hung out I don't know quick context about this clown that we're just talking about in a video I think it was the very first video we've ever done with you guys we talk about this clown and this display and I'm going to show you some of that footage now so that's kind of interesting how everything kind of just goes full circle this might be the greatest thing on earth there was this clown in the ' 50s named Derwood Belmont Adams this is his hat and nose from the 50s uh he passed in 2007 so I have his hat and nose and his cremated remains in this box here um which you know probably isn't that interesting to a certain group of people but I'm obsessed with clowns so to think I have some of his trajectory so to speak uh Delights me in a bizarre away and if you're watching this video you probably already know who joh gasy is so behind this door we have the world's largest collection of Johan gasy artifacts um they range in from paintings and art and letters that he did on death row that we've acquired from pen pals to more personal items that we got from his younger sister so the reason we ended up with so much stuff in the first place is Ryan has been working on a documentary for the like 10 years he's obsessed with the case has been since I met him so we've been turning everything we know into documentary form cuz there's just a lot of things that were glossed over in the initial investigation unless Stones left unturned pointing to you know other victims and victims in other states and a lot of questions that were brought up over the years that we actually have some case alterate information on but I'll let him talk more about that with you guys and we can head in and kind of look at the artifacts themselves if you want to head in yeah so just like the house downstairs this is like walking into this is like walking pretty much and actually the first thing that you're landing on is a scale model of his own property that's his house that the victims were buried under he built that in prison over the course of 3 months so he built that himself in prison um out of cigar boxes popsicle sticks yarn everything was cut with a tuna can lid so yeah it took 3 months to make so the reason that's super interesting obviously it's the only one that exists and the guy that we got it from is um a fellow who we've picked up on a lot of his research and you know been able to piece together a lot of the puzzle from knowing him and getting to know him and talk to him so this is the and this is this is it this is it I mean this is like the the darkest spookiest dollhous I've ever seen but something that that sticks out to me is the the pictures of clowns in each room did he actually have he cut out from magazines and books and he but yeah there were a lot of clowns in his house in his actual house and he put a clown in every single room I love his uh his plants yeah what crazy is that guest room up there with the bed almost looks like almost looks like a little blood stain on there I don't know again how much of that is intentional I don't know but gayy we know is a very meticulous person he's super super OCD about everything very little is an accident in the gasy realm so so that is a very very heavy piece but he also built it to withstand his weight for some reason there's a actual photo of him standing on it I don't know why but odd strange and if you've seen any gayy painting you kind of know the style this is a very unique piece and it was done for his sister Karen so he actually got that directly from her it was the prompt was he was sending her Seven Dwarf paintings and she didn't want them she she was like they're kind of creepy my kids don't want them I don't want them send me something I could actually hang up in my house so then this shows up in the mail it's actually a really nice still live now he did copy some step by steps over the years out of books and whatnot so likely it was a kind of step-by-step process but what is worth noting is the reflection over here almost looks like prison bars oh wow yeah so that was done in 1983 so also before he started mass kind of producing art cuz in the early ' 80s nobody really it wasn't a big thing to collect death row artwork from gayy or any other person so gayy painted that correct and what's really interesting and I'm just going to say this because if somebody's watching and they don't make the connection almost every gasy picture I've ever seen always has like this childlike feel to it this is the first time I've ever seen something where it's you can actually see like the art yeah you know it's almost like the calmness in the hand yep yeah it's technically well done so what you're seeing in this area are all of the paintings that he was doing on death row except this was one that was hanging in his house uh there's a photo of it in that is that little piece of right down here little corner yep so that's that exact painting that was hanging up in his bar yeah right there yeah so that was the only one that he didn't paint um that's on display in this room everything else were paintings that he did while he was in prison this is how he paid for his appet attorneys CU over the years that what kept Him on death R for song he was filing appeals um using money he made from painting to pay for lawyers so that was what prompted a lot of that in the first place and then on the note of his sister this is probably one of the most important things that we got from her so this is Gay's log book from prison he kept track of every five to 15 minutes he was on death row that's from when he woke up what he ate who he mailed stuff to that's the last two days of his life so everything right up to his death but prior to that he lists and logs paintings he people he's communicated with very important like information just Rel pertaining to the um appeals and attorneys and whatnot so that we've used in conjunction with the research that we've already started so that's we've been building off of um in the past few years since we' acquired that and that was really helpful because and I mentioned the documentary that we were working on so some of the things that don't quite add up are the victims there are still five unidentified victims to this day these photos are just all the ones that are currently identified so there are 33 victims total and only you know five of them still don't have names so we do have some leads on who a couple of the victims actually might be that's one of the many things that we're kind of working toward and then on that note too most of the victims were buried under gas's house in his crawl space so this we built very recently this was not here last time you were here but this we built to scale the dimensions of the crwl Bas entryway they've been debated over the years whether or not he could actually fit in there himself cuz there are a lot he a big guy and a lot of people had theorized that there were accomplices over the years which we actually have some proof to back up at this point and one of the many things that amounts to you know these accomplices and the idea that there were some was the width of his space was actually not this whole entire floor space this photo was an original evidence photo that was taken after the detectives took out the entire floor around the crawl space so that's when they lifted it up used it as evidence this is what remained but what's important to note is the support beams coming here and here that was the width of the crawl space it's about 16 to 18 in so he was about 59 240 lb so it was smaller than I thought it was we have this in conjunction with the whole crawl space setup so we did make this interactive Zoo it's you know you can get right up in there and look at interactive so people can actually climb down up inside there yes so like so this is what it looks like and I'm not 240 lbs but this width and this width that's the WID that he was fitting through basically um it would be difficult if not impossible um with his you know size basically so that's one thing worth noting and basically why we built it just to give people a a tangible so you can see it yourself we wanted to see it ourselves because brilliant what you what you folks have done here is is just it's it's mindblowing you know some people might think you know hey you come here and it's this Museum you get your picture taken like this but you're actually teaching people you're informing people I mean you're bringing awareness of things and one the things I love the most about this is you know you hear these stories MH you know these stories you know these nightmares you know these monsters and whenever we do our videos the thing that I've learned is once you actually experience it or once you actually put your feet there when you you can see it touch it put yourself in the surroundings that's how you really learn so for sure much respect much respect and this again it's more again just to get people again interacting and actually actively learning and let me get out of here it's creepy um so that's that's why we built that and we do you know have the dimensions of the crawl space of course we got those from talking to the prosecutor cuz I think I mentioned they're not public record but that is how we ended up getting them um before bill kungl passed away luckily and there there's our two friends over there coh Horton my wife and your husband cohort being creepy just creeping much respect much respect like yeah like we said at the very beginning of this video Savannah has a very special place to both Jessica and and I the friends that we made there and the creepier The Stranger side of Savannah that is off the beaten path like graveface Museum and I am completely blown away of this place the last time that we were here uh there's a video and if you haven't watched that watch that one it's going to be also in the description of this video this one here that you're watching but when we visited last time it was insane it it was the amount of stuff here we talked with Ryan this time we got to talk with his wife and just Next Level I've never seen a museum like this even the first edition was mind-blowing and we had never seen a museum quite like that now that you guys have improvised on it and improved some things and added to it if you're watching and you want to visit this place comfortable shoes hydrate you're going to be here for a long time taking everything in and yeah we we kind of just kind of ran through looking at a lot of highlights but there are things everywhere and truly everywhere and wow with that being said thank you for joining us on another Grim Adventure until next time happy Halloween Lu is day good luck never stay today bad always to in my way

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Length: 45min 24sec (2724 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 28 2024