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  • With eight narratively complex seasons under its belt, American Horror Story has left us

  • with a number of doozies to puzzle over.

  • With that in mind, here's a look at this long-running hit anthology's biggest unanswered questions

  • and there's more than a few.

  • Spoilers ahead!

  • Murder House, American Horror Story's first season, set the foundation for the series

  • by introducing us to the Montgomery House, an infamous mansion in Los Angeles with a

  • disturbingly high death count and a history of violence that goes all the way back to

  • its first owners in 1922: Dr. Charles Montgomery played by Matt Ross and his wife Nora played

  • by Lily Rabe.

  • Dr. Montgomery, a surgeon to all of Hollywood's finest in the 1920s, built the Victorian home

  • for his wife.

  • He never fails to remind her, and it always fails to impress her.

  • "I built you this house, exactly the way you wanted it."

  • "And how many servants do we have?

  • Two?"

  • When they fell on hard times, Nora decided that Charles should start offering abortions

  • out of the basement.

  • "No one will ever know

  • But we do require payment up front."

  • After an abortion went very wrong, Charles was exposed and the father of the baby dismembered

  • the Montgomery's newborn in retaliation.

  • "Charles…?

  • Oh my god."

  • Crazed with grief, Charles sewed the baby back together and reanimated it.

  • The child was bloodthirsty, and Nora ended up killing all three of them.

  • Their ghosts continue to haunt the housealong with anyone else who died there.

  • Were these terrible events enough to shatter a psychic veil and create the house where

  • the eventual Antichrist would be conceived and born?

  • Or was there something more?

  • This vital question to the entire AHS arc has never been answered.

  • If people kept going missing after booking a stay at a particular hotel, you'd think

  • the place would be positively crawling with law enforcement

  • But no, not at the Hotel Cortez.

  • "I need a room, one night."

  • "$150."

  • "Says here $30."

  • "That's out of date."

  • Like Murder House, the hotel racks up an enormous body count due to the evil energy of the place,

  • yet people keep booking stays at the Cortezand when they die terribly and violently within

  • its walls, nobody seems to come looking for them there.

  • Does this have something to do with an enchantment on the site laid by the vampire Countess,

  • played by Lady Gaga?

  • She's been in the fashion industry for decades, yet nobody seems bothered that she doesn't

  • age.

  • Did she cast a glamour over herself as well as the hotel?

  • Is this somehow related to Gaga's role as the original Supreme Scathach in Roanoke ? Something

  • definitely seems to be up.

  • After all, the Robichaux witches even know Queenie is there, and yet nobody goes looking

  • for her.

  • That may be due to some sort of black magic.

  • And consider this.

  • When Will Drake is killed at the hotel, his son Lachlan is also staying at the hotel but

  • we never see Lachlan again.

  • Did the Countess turn him into one of the ravaging vampire children?

  • Is he still there and is he still alive?

  • We just don't know.

  • We willprobably never know, will we?

  • American Horror Story: Asylum is packed to the brim with bizarre occurrences.

  • We meet a supposed Anne Frank who lived.

  • We get acquainted with the serial killer Bloody Face.

  • We witness the evildoing of a Nazi doctor, who continues his vile medical experiments

  • on patients.

  • But one of the plot threads that still leaves us scratching our heads involves Kit Walker

  • played by Evan Peters and his abduction by aliens.

  • After his supposed abduction and return, his wife also disappears.

  • Authorities arrest Kit under suspicion of being serial rapist and murderer Bloody Face.

  • Kit is locked away in Briarcliff Asylum, and nobody believes his alien abduction story.

  • "Your story about little green men - no, that won't do here."

  • "They weren't human."

  • He suffers terribly for crimes he didn't commit.

  • We never get a definitive answer about the aliens in American Horror Story, but Ryan

  • Murphy discussed the puzzling plotline with Entertainment Weekly, explaining that:

  • "For me, [aliens] were always an obvious metaphor for God.

  • It fit very easily into the world of a Catholic sanitarium asylum.

  • [...] It was also about science versus faith so it made sense to me."

  • Still, we'd like to know what these malignant extraterrestrials were up to.

  • Then again, aliens are notorious for their wild ways.

  • American Horror Story: Roanoke features Uber driver Rhett Snow played by actor Billy Snow

  • and he seems to be the only working driver in the area.

  • He gives Cricket a ride, almost killing Flora by accident in the process.

  • "You know, I just prayed to god everyone was alright."

  • He also gives Dylan a ride back to Mott Manor, evidently totally fine with the fact that

  • the guy is wearing a Pig Man mask.

  • Rhett shares the same last name as the fashionista witch Myrtle Snow, and his first name is shared

  • by Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, one of Clark Gable's most famous roles.

  • Could Rhett Snow be a member of Myrtle's extended family?

  • Giving him an old-fashioned name would be such a Myrtle thing to do.

  • Are other members the Snow family similarly driven by glamour and glitzand were they

  • eager to name Rhett after a pop culture figure from days of yore?

  • If so, is Rhett possibly a warlock like his witch relative?

  • Will he feature in a future season?

  • We probably wouldn't have seen him so many times without a reasonbut what is that

  • reason?

  • In a horrifying reveal during American Horror Story: Murder House, we discover that the

  • latex-clad Rubber Man is, in fact, the ghost of Tate Langdon, and he's the one who forced

  • himself upon Vivien, impregnating her with Satan.

  • So who is the second Rubber Man in Apocalypse?

  • It doesn't seem to be Michael, because he's walking the halls and interviewing people

  • in Outpost 3 around the time Rubber Man is doing his sexy business.

  • Then again, Rubber Man clearly gets around.

  • Gallant and the second Rubber Man have sex, and later on, Gallant is startled when Michael

  • claims it wasn't him in the rubber suit.

  • "You're pathetic."

  • When Gallant sees the Rubber Man again, he stabs him in a fit of rage.

  • But beneath the mask, it's not a man at all.

  • No, it's Gallant's grandmother Bubbles, played by the legendary Joan Collins!

  • It's a pretty eventful night, all told.

  • Was the second Rubber Man even real, or was he merely a hallucination?

  • It's ironic that Evan Peters played the original Rubber Man in Murder House, only to be on

  • the receiving end of his assault in Apocalypse.

  • Time really is a flat circle, huh?

  • American Horror Story: Apocalypse spends a great deal of time and attention on Emily

  • and Timothy, the star-crossed lovers in the end times living in Outpost 3.

  • When they're captured and taken underground, they're both told that they were selected

  • for their excellent genes.

  • "The elite.

  • The worthy.

  • Those chosen to survive."

  • Their forbidden love only draws them closer together.

  • By the end of Apocalypse and after the time reset, we learn Emily has given birth to the

  • next Antichrist.

  • Why were they included in the apocalypse bunker?

  • Did someone know Emily and Timothy were destined to sire an Antichrist in the event of a time

  • spell being cast to destroy young Michael Langdon?

  • Was Outpost 3 hoping for another devil child to rule the end of the world?

  • Or does this mean that the forces that are trying to foster the Antichrist are well aware

  • of multiple timelines?

  • Also, Emily and Timothy are both human and Satan must be conceived with human and spirit,

  • like Michael was.

  • So, is one of them not who they say they are?

  • Could one of them have been under an identity spell all along?

  • So many questions.

  • American Horror Story: Hotel ended with a number of pressing questions that were never

  • resolved.

  • For example, what happened to the Countess' disfigured vampire baby Bartholemew after

  • she was killed on the property and became one of its ghosts?

  • What was the significance of the recurring 2:25 hour?

  • Oh, and we have some questions about that gang of real-life serial killers.

  • Each year on Halloween, they somehow manage to visit James March, the man who built the

  • Hotel Cortez.

  • As you no doubt recall, Richard Ramirez, Aileen Wuornos, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer,

  • and a masked Zodiac killer all attend a dinner party in celebration of Devil's Night.

  • "I don't get you, man.

  • The real fun starts after you get caught.

  • Don't you know that?"

  • Each year they drink absinthe and murder together with glee.

  • But none of these serial killers happened to die in the Hotel Cortez, obviously.

  • So how do they get there?

  • And where are they all chillaxing the rest of the year?

  • In the world of American Horror Story, ghosts tend to stay where they were killedbut

  • not these prolific murderers.

  • What allows these serial killers to go and join James March at the Cortez for one night

  • a year?

  • Does he have some witchy powers that are never discussed?

  • Or is there something else behind their ability to roam about freely?

  • Can other ghosts do this?

  • Fingers crossed for a future season that clears up these unanswered questions from American

  • Horror Story's fifth season.

  • Theories, anyone?

  • In American Horror Story: Coven, Evan Peters plays Kyle Spencer, the president of a college

  • fraternity.

  • When Madison and Zoe go to a raging party, Madison is drugged and sexually assaulted

  • by a bunch of frat guys until Kyle intervenes.

  • Madison is so furious about the attack, she uses her powers to flip over the frat boys'

  • bus, killing a great many of them and also killing poor sweet Kyle.

  • Feeling guilty about Kyle's death, Madison and Zoe visit the morgue and decide to resurrect

  • himbut there's a problem: The boys were all left in pieces.

  • Madison finds Kyle's head and then picks choice body parts from the various dead frat boys

  • in order to create what we'll respectfully call "Franken-Kyle."

  • The spell doesn't seem to work at first, but when it does, Kyle clearly isn't the same

  • kind-hearted guy he was before.

  • He eventually regains his strength and ability to speak, and by the end of the season, he

  • becomes becomes the Miss Robichaux Academy's butler and protector as Spalding had been.

  • We return to Robichaux in American Horror Story: Apocalypse, but there's no sign of

  • Kyle at all.

  • Evan Peters is all over Apocalypse in fact, he plays four different roles throughout the

  • season: Mr. Gallant, James Patrick March, Tate Langdon, and Jeff Pfister.

  • So it's really rather odd that Franken-Kyle doesn't make a single appearance throughout

  • the season.

  • What happened to him?

  • Did he die again?

  • Or could Ryan Murphy be saving him for a future season?

  • Time will tell.

  • What was the witch Mallory's real identity and why was she so powerful?

  • We know that Queenie's lineage goes all the way back to the Salem witch trials.

  • Misty Dawn comes from a long line of swamp witches.

  • Supreme Fiona and her daughter Cordelia are both white witch royalty, as are Madison Montgomery

  • and Zoe.

  • But we know virtually nothing about Mallory, or her past when we meet her as a personal

  • assistant in American Horror Story: Apocalypse.

  • "Are the Kardashians filming out there?"

  • She was functioning under an identity-cloaking spell, so it makes sense that she didn't know

  • who or what she was, yet it seems nobody else knew either.

  • Apocalypse never really addresses her identity or lineage at all, which is surprising: People

  • with her level of immense power tend to rise from well-known bloodlines.

  • This begs the question: Is Mallory even a witch at all?

  • We need Ryan Murphy to circle back around to this one.

  • We learn in American Horror Story: Coven that there can be only one Supreme at a time, and

  • when her powers and health begin to weaken it means another Supreme is on the rise.

  • Fiona had to die in order for her daughter Cordelia to ascend, just as Cordelia has to

  • die for Mallory to take her powers.

  • But in American Horror Story: Roanoke, many of the terrible events are set in motion by

  • the wood witch Scathach, who they say is the original Supreme.

  • But how can that be if there's only one at a time?

  • Is she a ghost Supreme?

  • Does being the first give her exceptional powers?

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