American Horror Real Story

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Many of the episodes, characters, and stories throughout every season of American Horror Story are actually based on true crime events, famous supernatural stories, and historical figures. American Horror Story is an anthology series in which each season focuses on a particular story. Many cast members have played multiple roles in the series as it has continued. While each season has its own story, there have been cases of connections and crossovers between the seasons, especially in the case of AHS: Apocalypse as characters from previous seasons were involved in the storyline.

In American Horror Story: Cult, Kai Anderson is a demented cult leader that is obsessed with anarchy and chaos. He creates and develops the starring cult of the season, very similar to how the Manson Family operated. In fact, he acts like a blue-haired version of the famous cult leader, even hallucinating the monster as a sort of mentor toward the end of the season.

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Dr. Thredson is heavily based on the notorious serial killer, Ed Gein, who butchered his victims and used their skin to make himself household items and clothes. Thredson's fleshy lamp is the perfect example of what could be found among Gein's trophies. Thredson's sinister intentions may seem like they can only exist in a dark show like AHS, but Gein is proof that, as Judy Martin says, "all monsters are human."

Much of the AHS: Coven season is actually inspired by the real history of New Orleans. The story of the real Madame LaLaurie and her torture house is probably one of the darkest, sickest stories in American history. Naturally, it is a central storyline in the third season of the series, Coven. The LaLaurie mansion resides in New Orleans, Louisiana, and its disturbing history wards off tourists and locals alike from going anywhere near the well-known haunted house.

The character Madame LaLaurie is based on a real person. She was a rich slave owner who presented herself well and hosted great parties. Behind closed doors, she would brutally torture her slaves and often kill them in the attic of the slave house. The season covers some of her atrocities throughout a few of the episodes, from her bloodbath of a nightly ritual to her torture chamber, and the grisly results of human experimentation.

At the beginning of American Horror Story Season 6's very first episode, a message flashed on screen: "The following story is based on true events." The events that transpire after that are presented in documentary format, with married couple Shelby (Lily Rabe) and Matt (Andr Holland) speaking directly to the camera in a talking head format while two actors playing them (Sarah Paulson and Cuba Gooding, Jr.) act out everything they're describing. But how deep does the meta go? Are the events of the series fictional, but just referred to as "true" to preserve the documentary style (a la The Blair Witch Project)? Or was this actually based on something that really happened? Is Shelby real on American Horror Story?

AHS has often depicted real people or characters inspired by real people during its run. AHS: Hotel was populated by a mix of both: there were vampirized versions of real people like Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova, and Evan Peters' Mr. March was inspired by real life serial killer H. H. Holmes. Even Season 6's Roanoke setting harkens back to a real location with a real mystery attached to it. But are Shelby and Matt Miller a real couple who were terrorized while living there? That's less clear. Romper reached out to FX about whether or not the season is based on a true story but did not hear back at the time of publication.

One thing is for sure: Shelby and Matt's house isn't real. It was built specifically for the show over the course of four months. It's not even really in North Carolina; it's in California, where the series films. That's perhaps the first tip-off that Shelby and Matt aren't based on real people, particularly because there doesn't seem to be a real location in NC that inspired this particular house. There also doesn't seem to be any record of a married couple dealing with a major haunting in Dare County (which Roanoke Island is a part of, and which was named after one of the lost settlers).

In my opinion, the warning at the opening of the episode was merely part of the show within a show, My Roanoke Nightmare. All sorts of true crime and real life ghost story shows start with similar messages to built up anticipation and add to the scare factor. If the audience thinks there is some truth at the root of the horror, then it feels all the more real; if it happened to these people, maybe it could happen to the audience, too.

American Horror Story series regular Lily Rabe plays the "real" Shelby while the queen of AHS herself, Sarah Paulson, portrays the dramatic reenactment version of Shelby. That's because the season is set up like a true crime show, with interviews from the people who lived the experience giving on-camera interviews and then actors recreating those life events. In this case though, it's all fake, with actors portraying both the people in the interviews and the people in the reenactments.

As for the real Roanoke, although Shelby and Matt are living in the present, the Roanoke, North Carolina colony from the 1500s is a frightening real story that has never been solved. English settlers established the colony and when they ran out of supplies, the leader John White returned to England. He was delayed in returning by three years due to a war and when he returned to Roanoke, none of the over 100 original colonists were to be found and this mystery of the disappearing colony still intrigues people to this day.

Since Shelby and Matt left Los Angeles to move to North Carolina, it seems like they could possibly be haunted by those colonists. But when it comes to their story of them being terrorized in hot tubs and with raining teeth, I wouldn't get too concerned since that appears to be something directly from the mind of Murphy.

One of many TV franchises created by Ryan Murphy, American Horror Story is an anthology of spooky and terrifying affairs. Featuring ghosts, cults and even aliens, the show has now been running on FX for over a decade. While many of the supernatural elements are entirely fictional, there are some parts of each season's story that ring all too true, namely one story that loosely adapted an infamous 1996 home invasion.

This example can be found in American Horror Story: Murder House, Season 1, Episode 2, "Home Invasion." Featuring a killer who targets a group of innocent nurses, this fiendish murderer is actually based on a real-life killer. Within the universe of the show, the American Horror Story version of the 1966 home invasion supposedly struck fear into America long before another infamous criminal from the real world.

"Home Invasion" opens with a flashback set in the late 1960s. In the episode, two nursing students are shown studying in their dorm before answering a knock at the door. They find a seemingly beaten and bleeding man, but quickly realize the wound on his head is a ruse. Before the nurses can respond, however, the mysterious stranger attacks them, killing one of the young ladies before forcing the other to wear a nurse's uniform and then killing her, as well.

This mysterious killer is established as R. Franklin -- a home-invading killer whose vile actions predated those of Charles Manson and his cult. In the universe of Murder House, Franklin "changed the culture" through his homicides, with a group of serial killer enthusiasts in the episode's present day storyline trying to imitate what he did. The idea of serial killer fanboys and copycats is sadly a reality, but so are the actions of R. Franklin -- sort of.

Shockingly enough, the American Horror Story home invasion is based on a real-life crime, making its murders even more visceral. Series creator Ryan Murphy confirmed that R. Franklin and his murders in the American Horror Story home invasion were somewhat inspired by those of real-life killer Richard Speck. In 1966, Speck broke into a dormitory for nursing students, and brutally assaulted and killed eight students with a knife.

Out of the student nurses staying in the dormitory that night, only Corazon Amurao -- a ninth student -- escaped with her life as she was able to hide from Speck under a bed for several hours. Amurao later identified Speck as the killer at his trial, and her accusation was supported by Lieutenant Emil Giese, who verified that the fingerprints found at the crime scene matched Speck's.

Apart from their names starting with the letter "R," the similarities between American Horror Story: Murder House's R. Franklin and Richard Speck is that they both murdered nursing students. R. Franklin supposedly did so due to a bad experience involving nurses and mercury in a thermometer. The latter is a possible allusion to Mary Telfer -- a British biochemist -- incorrectly speculating Speck had XYY syndrome as part of the insanity defense his attorney, Gerald W. Getty, was pushing for. Speck was karyotyped twice for the extra "Y" chromosome, but was proven to have the normal XY genome both times. Additionally, the features and angular face of Franklin's actor Jamie Harris somewhat resemble those of Richard Speck.

R. Franklin and the slaying of the American Horror Story: Murder House nurses isn't the only fictionalized version of the story, however. The movies Violated Angels and Naked Massacre are also based on Speck's life without directly adapting it. Violated Angels told a similar story to the American Horror Story 1966 home invasion, though with one major difference. The film was shot and set in Japan, and it was one of director Kōji Wakamatsu's infamous "pink films." These were movies known for their nudity and graphic sexual content.

Like a lot of other movies in this genre, the film was seen as being almost exploitative and potentially offensive to women. This sentiment is exacerbated by the brutality seen on display, though the actual murders of the nurses are mostly off-screen. Coming out in 1967 (one year after the crime itself), the movie showed how prolific the real life American Horror Story 1966 home invasion murders were around the world.

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