Speculations regarding “American Horror Story” Season 5 have been making their rounds all over the Internet since the horror drama’s Season 4 finale aired. Lady Gaga’s confirmation that the subtitle of Season 5 is “Hotel” has now led fans to link the series to one of America’s most notorious mass murderers.
Design & Trend says that the fifth season of this highly watched show might focus on HH Holmes, America’s first serial killer, who started with his killing obsession in 1886. He lured travelers and immigrants to stay in his hotel, which has now been dubbed as the “Murder Castle.”
The report also says that majority of the travelers who stayed at his hotel were attendees or participants at the World Fair or Columbian Exposition in Chicago. However, he also “took out” lovers who checked into his hotel as well as his hotel staff, instructing them to take out life insurance policies and name him as the sole beneficiary before killing them all off.
Basically, no one enjoyed their stay at his hotel – or even got to leave.
He ventilated gas into their soundproof rooms as well as locked them into airless vaults and watched them suffocate, according to GameNGuide. The lifeless bodies will then be transported to his basement via a chute, and this is when the real scary part takes place, as reported by iHorror.
He dissects the bodies and chops them into more than a dozen pieces. The bodies that he did not sell to medical schools were burned or kept inside jars.
When he was finally arrested in 1894, he was believed to have murdered at least 200 people. However, the report says that the confirmed body count was only 27. Holmes was executed in 1896.
It would certainly appear that Holmes’s story is the perfect story for a show that is titled, “American Horror Story: Hotel.” Additionally, the biggest clue would be the top hat. It was previously reported that the top hat shown in the “AHS” Season 4 finale was one of the biggest clues for the next season.
However, the hat that Holmes wore was not a top hat. It was actually a bowler hat. If last season’s “top hat” revelation was a hint, then it was a very misleading one if Ryan Murphy and the rest of the production team of “AHS” will actually be taking on a Holmes-centered Season 5.
