every season american horror story draws inspiration from real characters and events, but makes significant changes to fit the style and tone of the show, and American Horror Story: Asylum It features many characters based on real-life people. After discovering stories of ghosts living in a haunted house American Horror Story: Murder HouseThe series took the audience to the 1960s. AHS: Asylum to see the horrific events that took place at the fictional mental institution Briarcliff Manor. Asylum He mixed the horrors of social experimentation, racism, and a serial killer with a supernatural element that might seem out of place: aliens.
American Horror Story: Asylum It followed the stories of Kit Walker (Evan Peters), an innocent man arrested on suspicion of being the Bloody Face murderer; Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson), a journalist whose research on Briarcliff prompted her to commit to it; and Briarcliff’s High Priestess, Sister Jude Martin (Jessica Lange), their faith is put to the ultimate test. American Horror Story: Asylum It’s widely regarded as the show’s best season, and knowing that some of its main characters are based on real-life people can make it even more frightening.
one Kit and Alma Walker – Barney and Betty Hill
Kit and Alma Walker (Britne Oldford) were a young couple in the 1960s who were forced to keep their marriage secret because it was an interracial relationship that was stigmatized and illegal. While at their house one night, Kit heard strange noises outside, but when she went out to investigate, she was startled by a blinding flash of light and a sound like thunder. Kit rushed back to the house, but saw the objects in the living room hang in the air and were then glued to the ceiling by an unseen force. Kit saw a series of strange visions of green humanoids standing around her, but since Alma disappeared after this incident and her story was so strange, no one believed her and instead was believed to be the Bloodface killer.
The story of Kit and Alma AHS: Asylum It was inspired by Barney and Betty Hill, an interracial American couple who claimed to have been abducted by aliens in 1961. According to Hills, on September 19, 1961, on their way home from vacation, they encountered a UFO. After observing a strange object in the sky, Hills explained that it was descending rapidly towards their car, and Barney claimed, using binoculars, that he saw eight to eleven humanoid figures peering out of the vehicle’s windows. Hills then drove away as fast as they could, but they heard a series of rhythmic beeps, the car vibrated and a tingling sensation passed through their bodies, after which they experienced the onset of altered consciousness. A series of beeps brought them back to full consciousness, and they realized that they had traveled about 35 miles south and had vague memories of the road. Their stories have been analyzed and disproved countless times.
2 Grace BertrandLizzie Borden
Grace Bertrand (Lizzie Brocheré) was a patient at Briarcliff, who later became Kit’s second wife and mother of her son. Grace moved with her family from France to America when she was nine, but was constantly raped by her father at night. When Grace told her stepmother about this, she told her not to tell anyone and bribed her with candy. One day, fed up with abuse, Grace killed her father and stepmother with an ax, and her step-sister, who witnessed the murders, testified that she killed them for no reason because she refused to believe that her father had hurt Grace so much. so Grace was sent to Briarcliff.
Grace’s story AHS: Asylum It takes many elements from Lizzie Borden’s. Lizzie Borden’s story inspired a number of movies, TV shows, and books as her case became widely publicized in the late 1890s. On August 4, 1892, the bodies of Lizzie’s father Andrew and stepmother Abby were found in their home, and Lizzie’s conflicting answers to police officers made her a suspect. After a long process and many theories about Lizzie’s motives and more, she was acquitted of the murders, but all these events followed her for the rest of her life. That Lizzie was physically and s*xually abused by her father, that she and her maid had an affair, and that Abby found them together (and confessed that her maid had changed her expression on her deathbed to protect Lizzie), and this maid was the real murderer.
3 Pepper – Schlitz Surtees
Pepper (Naomi Grossman) was a woman with microcephaly who performed in Fräulein Elsa’s Cabinet. American Horror Story: Freak Show, then dedicated to Briarcliff Manor. After the death of her “husband” and performance partner, Salty, Pepper refused to continue performing, and Elsa took him in with her sister, Rita Gayheart, who had abused Pepper with her husband. Rita and her husband murdered their disfigured baby niece and blamed Pepper for it, after which she was convicted of murder and sent to Briarcliff.
Pepper was inspired by Schlitzie Surtees, an American sideshow artist who also appeared in several films, most notably the 1932 classic horror film. freaks. Like Pepper, Schlitzie was born with microcephaly and an intellectual disability and was often presented as female or androgynous on shows to add to the mystery of her unique appearance. Schlitzie died in 1971 at the age of 70.
4 Oliver Thredson/Bloodface – Ed Gein
Dr. Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto) was a psychiatrist brought to Briarcliff to assess Kit’s adequacy to stand trial, but eventually manipulated Kit into admitting to the murders Thredson had committed because he was the real Bloody Face killer. Thredson’s many crimes included the murder of Lana Winters’ girlfriend, Wendy, and the rape of Lana, who had their son for adoption. When Lana got out of Briarcliff, she used her pregnancy to trick Thredson into confessing to her crimes and then murdered him at her home.
Thredson has become one of the series’ scariest characters. american horror story, so it should come as no surprise that it was based on one of the most brutal killers in American history: Ed Gein. Gein removed bodies from local cemeteries and confessed to murdering two women (Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden), and found a truly horrific scene when police raided his home following Worden’s disappearance. Gein used the corpses of his victims and all the corpses he exhumed to make trophies, including a corset, bowls, leggings, masks, and a lampshade. Gein was found guilty of Worden’s murder, but was also found legally insane and spent the rest of his life in a psychiatric institution.
5 Lana Winters – Nellie Bly
After Lana Winters sneaked into Briarcliff to investigate what happened there, Sister Jude was a committed journalist, as Sister Jude threatened to expose her girlfriend, Wendy, to exposing their relationship, which was considered taboo and illegal at the time, and so she signed a statement. Lana was mentally ill. Thredson gained Lana’s trust and helped her escape, but took her home and raped her there. Lana eventually left Briarcliff for good and not only got a confession from Thredson but killed him, proving Kit’s innocence and exposing the cruelty of Briarcliff and her team. Knowing that she was following in her father’s footsteps, Lana also killed her and her son John, who confronted her about Thredson’s past.
Lana Winters was based on Nellie Bly (real name: Elizabeth Cochran Seaman), an American journalist best known for her record-breaking 72-day trip around the world and exposing a mental institution where she worked undercover. In 1887, she took a secret mission. New York World She agreed to pretend to be insane to investigate reports of atrocities and neglect at the Women’s Asylum. After some obstacles while trying to get into the mental hospital, she spent 10 days there before she was released. WorldHis order and exposure not only brought him fame, but also led the institution to implement reforms. Nellie Bly died of pneumonia in 1922 at the age of 57.
6 Dr. Arden-Josef Mengele
Oliver Thredson wasn’t the only monster out there. American Horror Story: AsylumDr. Arthur Arden (James Cromwell), doctor and manager at Briarcliff. Arden was a Nazi war criminal who conducted experiments on various patients at Briarcliff and was responsible for the altered humans in the surrounding forest. Arden had feelings for the captured Sister Mary Eunice (Lily Rabe) and therefore persuaded him to torture Sister Jude and the other patients, but this does not excuse all the experiments, deaths, and torture for which she was responsible.
Dr. Arden, II. It was based on Josef Mengele, an SS officer and doctor known for his deadly experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz II concentration camp during World War II, earning the nickname “Angel of Death”. His best-known experiments were those on identical twins, in which Mengele sought to prove the superiority of the Aryan race through them. Mengele fled to Argentina after the war and escaped capture despite numerous international efforts to bring him to court.