Random Things About How All Of American Horror Story Seasons Are Connected (21 items)

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  (#9) Pepper Performed In Freak Show Before Landing In Asylum

  As an infant, Pepper (Naomi Grossman) was abandoned by her family because she suffered from microcephaly, a condition that gave her an unusually small head and a range of other disabilities. She grew up in an orphanage until she was 18, when Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange) adopted her into Fräulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities in Season 4's Freak Show.

  After her companion and fellow microcephaly sufferer Salty dies, she becomes too depressed to perform with the freak show and is sent to live with her sister Rita.

  But this was not the first time Pepper appeared on American Horror Story. Pepper first appeared in Season 2 as an inmate of the Briarcliff asylum, where she was sent after supposedly murdering her disabled infant nephew. It turns out that Rita and her husband murdered the baby themselves and framed Pepper, who lacked the cognitive capacities to defend herself.

  So it seems certain that both Seasons 2 and 4 take place in the same world and on the same timeline.
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  (#7) Freak Show's Mott Family Built The Roanoke House

  The wealthy Mott family is to blame for more than just psychopath Dandy (Finn Wittrock), the deranged young heir who murders out of boredom and petulance in Season 4's Freak Show.

  Dandy's mother Gloria Mott (Frances Conroy) warns her son that madness runs in their (very inbred) family and she's right: Dandy's ancestor Edward Phillipe Mott built the Roanoke house from Season 6 in 1792 and later disappeared there.
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  (#11) Jack Colquitt Is A Time-Traveling Detective

  It's only a small callback, but many AHS fans noted that Detective Jack Colquitt (Geoffrey Rivas) appeared in Season 1 to investigate the disappearance of Sally Freeman (Adina Porter). But in Season 4, Freak Show, which takes place six decades before Season 1, another Detective Jack Colquitt (P.J. Marshall) shows up to investigate the many murders and disappearances taking place in Jupiter, Florida.

  Is this a subtle clue, or does Ryan Murphy just a fan of The X-Files?
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  (#3) American Horror Story Is A Documentary Series

  Inspired by the faux reality TV setting of Season 6: Roanoke, MartynLann on Reddit asked, "What if it turns out that all of this seasons have been documentaries and that's why they keep using the same actors and actresses?"

  Other Redditors have also wondered if all of AHS could be a "documentary" series (would that makes Season 6 a meta-documentary?) where all the actors are indeed actors playing different roles. It would explain why the actors keep coming back season after season. You know, unless they're doomed to return to work through their bad karma.
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  (#15) Coven's Queenie Meets Her End At Hotel Cortez

  Queenie, the voodoo witch played by Gabourey Sidibe in Season 3, Coven, possesses powerful magic, including the ability to inflict pain on herself that then transfers to her victims, essentially turning her own body into a voodoo doll.

  Unfortunately, while Queenie can defeat any mortal, she's powerless against ghosts, which is how she winds up trapped in Season 5's Hotel Cortez. The vampiric Ramona Royale (Angela Bassett) attacks Queenie, who nearly defeats her before the ghost of James March comes to Ramona's aid and Queenie is doomed.
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  (#13) The Montgomery Family Gets Around

  Another case of Ryan Murphy reusing last names, or something more? In Season 1, surgeon Charles Montgomery (Matt Ross) was the original owner of the "murder house," which he used to perform twisted Frankenstein-like experiments while high on ether - and that's before things got really ugly.

  In Season 3, Coven, we're introduced to telekinetic starlet Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts).

  Finally, in Season 5, Hotel, Charles Montgomery reappears to perform an abortion on the Countess (Lady Gaga) - without any luck, as the fetus not only lives, but murders Montgomery's nurse.

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