As much as it's known for its odd humor and gore-soaked set pieces, AMC's hit horror television series, American Horror Story, is just as notorious for its grotesquely convoluted storytelling and shocking, soap-opera-style plot twists. Fans of AHS are definitely used to being surprised, but when it comes to behind-the-scenes trivia, even loyal viewers might not know the whole story. How much do you really know about American Horror Story? What are the most surprising BTS facts and American Horror Story Easter eggs?
Which American Horror Story characters were inspired by real people? Wasn't that song you just heard in a different movie you once saw, or are you just slowly losing your mind? What other plans to series creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have in store? Never fear - we're here to assist you with these, and plenty of other important American Horror Story facts you never knew you needed to know.
From fun facts about the cast and life on the American Horror Story set, to casting choices that fell through (for better or worse) there's plenty of AHS trivia for fans of the TV show to nerd over. Read through the list below and be sure to vote for the most surprising tidbits about your favorite creepy series, American Horror Story.
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Naomi Grossman once got kicked off the set.
It takes Naomi Grossman over three hours to get into her costume and make-up to play Pepper, and when she's out of costume, needless to say, she looks pretty different. So much so, in fact, that she was once thrown off the set by confused security officers who didn't recognize her.
The flashback version of James Cromwell's character was played by Cromwell's son.
If you were feeling kind of freaked out by the uncanny physiognomic similarities between James Cromwell and that guy who plays the youthful, Nazi version of his character in the flashback sequence from Asylum, rest assured you're not crazy. The actor was actually James Cromwell's son, John Cromwell, hence the eerie family resemblance.
The murder house is an actual place.
Rosenheim Mansion is located in Los Angeles's Country Club Park, just up the road from the similarly ostentatious family homes of the Del Amos and Dohenys (both of whom have a lot of stuff in Los Angeles named after them, even major streets).
Murder House wasn't the Rosenheim Mansion's screen debut, either - it had already been used as a shooting location for countless movies and TV shows, including an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Alma and Kit Walker were inspired by real people.
It turns out that the weird season two subplot everyone hated about the interracial couple getting abducted by aliens was there for a reason, (well, sort of. It was based on a true (or, at least, "true") story.
Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple living in New Hampshire in the early '60s, were, it turns out, the first people ever to widely disseminate an "alien abduction" story, and many common alien abduction tropes in modern science fiction derive from their account.
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka were originally slated to appear on Murder House.
You probably heard rumors about how Neil Patrick Harris and his husband David Burtka were threatening to show up on Freak Show, but you might not realize that the couple was originally supposed to appear on season one as the embittered, undead gay couple.
They turned it down, supposedly, because they had very recently played a feuding married couple in A Very Harold and Kumar 3-D Christmas, and they didn't want to start giving people ideas about their actual marriage.
The guy who plays meep on Freak Show was also in Murder House (and has a surprising day job).
When he's not pretending to bite the heads off chickens, Ben Woolf, that guy who played Meep on Freak Show, spends his day-to-day life (believe it or not) teaching core curriculum to school children.
His occasional dabbling in show business didn't start with his portrayal of the hapless geek, however - aside from his assorted roles in smaller productions, Woolf also played the deformed mutant baby, Thaddeus Montgomery, on AHS season one.
Evan Peters had to be covered in lubricant to wiggle into that fetish suit.
It had to have been a little cumbersome getting in and out of that PVC bondage suit, but we bet you never imagined Evan Peters had to be slathered from head to foot in KY to wiggle in and out of it.
Jyoti Amge is considered a deity in her home country.
19-year-old Jyoti Amge, who plays Ma Petite, quickly became a lot of people's favorite new character from Freak Show. Though her premiere in show business may seem thrilling to the rest of us, in Amge's home country of India, where the majority of the population is Hindu, she's widely regarded as a living incarnation of a goddess due to her unorthodox stature. Becoming an American television star is probably no big deal by comparison.
Frances Conroy and James Cromwell were married on Six Feet Under.
If you're a fan of HBO's Six Feet Under then you probably already know this, but AHS perennial Frances Conroy appeared on that show, too, as family matriarch Ruth Fisher. James Conroy, who appeared as the terrifying Nazi surgeon Dr. Arden on season two of AHS, also appeared on Six Feet Under as Ruth's lover, and eventually problematic second husband, George Sibley.
Evan Peters and Emma Roberts are engaged in real life.
They've enjoyed many and various instances of shared sexual chaos onscreen, but were you aware that Evan Peters and Emma Roberts are a thing, in real life? Apparently it's so serious, they're even planning to get married, although there's no word yet regarding an actual wedding date.