'American Horror Story' Fans Are Dying to Know: Did Caroline Gibbons Exist?

'American Horror Story: Double Feature' fans had been introduced to little Caroline Gibbons in Episode 9, titled "Blue Moon." But used to be she in keeping with a real person?

Bianca Piazza - Author

FX's standard horror anthology collection, American Horror Story, simply won't die. Season 10, aka American Horror Story: Double Feature, is split into two portions: Red Tide, which is set "by the sea," and Death Valley, which is set "by the sand." Let's listen it for blood-hungry vampires and gray aliens galore.

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Considering the first phase, which aired from Aug. 25 to Sept. 22, 2021, was once largely in keeping with the real-life Cape Cod Vampire, who killed as many as eight women between 1966 and 1969, it isn't unexpected that many characters within the Area 51-inspired Death Valley are according to genuine folks. AHS veteran Sarah Paulson performs Mamie Eisenhower, Neal McDonough plays Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lily Rabe performs Amelia Earhart, and Alisha Soper performs Marilyn Monroe.

There are wild alien-centered conspiracy theories surrounding all of those historic folks — yes, they all — and AHS could not lend a hand however discover said radical speculations. And once we say discover, we mean that AHS loves to upload its personal supernatural and regularly erotic (?) spin on decades-old conspiracy theories. But as for new character Caroline Gibbons, who used to be introduced in Episode 9, fans can't help however surprise, did she in point of fact exist?

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Was Caroline Gibbons in 'AHS' in line with an actual individual?

Caroline Gibbons used to be taken for purposes of human experimentation within the Fifties, which, if we're being fair, is as much as we know about her storyline so far. But what we do know is that Caroline does not seem to be in line with a real individual in history. It is conceivable, alternatively, that Caroline represents unethical human experimentation of the '50s, though a lot of it involved prisoners and knowledgeable consent.

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Decider did theorize, alternatively, that Caroline Gibbons were given her closing identify from Stephanie Gibbons, aka the President of Marketing, Digital Media Marketing, and On-Air Promotions for FX Networks, which would merely be a sort nod to the bright mind in the back of AHS's eerie and steadily viral promotions.

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Was Valiant Thor genuine?

Death Valley's Episode Nine introduced any other new persona, Valiant Thor, played by means of Cody Fern, who is a relatively good-looking cross between a human and an alien. Though he would possibly now not have actually existed, the alien-crafted human-robot (it's sophisticated) is in keeping with an actual conspiracy idea. The Edward Cullen-like hybrid being is hooked up to the long-held conspiracy theory that President Eisenhower met with extraterrestrial beings within the late 1950s.

It used to be in Dr. Frank E. Stranges' 1967 ebook, The Stranger at the Pentagon, that Valiant Thor, in particular hailed as Commander Valiant Thor, was once discussed as the chief of the extraterrestrials who met with Eisenhower. Here's how Frank described Valiant Thor in his well-known e-book: “I was on my guard for fakes and frauds. In walked a man about six ft tall, perhaps 185 pounds, brown wavy hair, brown eyes. His complexion appeared customary and rather tanned.” According to Frank, he's from Venus. Sure, Frank.

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As for who Caroline Gibbons in point of fact is, viewers may have to chunk their nails and to find out extra all the way through the Death Valley finale, "The Future Perfect."

The finale of American Horror Story: Double Feature airs on Oct. 20, 2021, at 10 p.m. EST on FX.

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