5. Many of the story-lines are based off creepy past events
Thankfully, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk didn’t think up these terrifying and disturbing plots completely by themselves. They actually took great inspiration from history and all the weird, gruesome tales of the past few centuries.
Season 5, Hotel was based on a real life horror story
The deadly setting of Hotel Cortez in season 5, was inspired by a genuine hotel that was built by owner H.H. Holmes in late-1800s Chicago. He built the hotel in order to murder its many guests, and store their bodies behind the hotel’s trap doors of secluded secret rooms.
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It is believed that Holmes killed nearly 200 people, which is probably why the hotel later became known as ‘The Murder Castle’. A pretty chilling stimulus for a TV show, but when it comes to A.H.S, it seems more than appropriate.
Holmes’ Murder Castle wouldn’t be well reviewed on Trip Advisor
Hotel Cortez is one of many Hotels to be used as a site for a horror. Much like The Shining and Psycho, there’s just something brilliantly eerie and off-putting about those long, deserted, dark corridors.
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In Hotel we also see Mare Winningham’s character Ms Evers flashback to the death of her young son. Believe it or not, the sad and horrifying tale behind these deaths were real too.
The man behind the Chicken Coop Murders
They related to the Chicken Coop Murders of the 1920s, in which Gordon Northcott abducted and killed scores of young boys and hid their bodies underneath his chicken coop. Grim.
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