Prey for the Devil attempts to retell this tired story with the gimmick of an aspiring female exorcist but never manages to pull together a narrative cohesive or scary enough to rise above a patchwork of familiar possession horror tropes. What do you guys think of this theory? Is Holmes set to be the inspiration behind “American Horror Story: Hotel’s” antagonist?Ī tale as old as time a Catholic church representative must battle their inner demons to save the soul of a possessed child. Last week it was revealed that Lady Gaga would be starring in the fifth season of “American Horror Story”, dubbed “Hotel”. He is also thought to be a Jack the Ripper suspect…įor those curious to know more about this sadistic murderer, Netflix Instant has John Borowski’s superb 2003 documentary H. While Holmes confessed to 27 murders, it is believed that he took the life of more than 200 people through the year of 1984. Through the connections he had gained in medical school, he sold skeletons and organs with little difficulty.” ( Wiki) Holmes had two giant furnaces as well as pits of acid, bottles of various poisons, and even a stretching rack. Holmes also cremated some of the bodies or placed them in lime pits for destruction. The victims’ bodies were dropped by secret chute to the basement, where some were meticulously dissected, stripped of flesh, crafted into skeleton models, and then sold to medical schools. Other victims were locked in a huge soundproof bank vault near his office, where they were left to suffocate. Some were locked in soundproof bedrooms fitted with gas lines that let him asphyxiate them at any time. It was constructed with the evil ingenuity to murder immigrants and travelers attending the Columbian Exposition (The Chicago World’s Fair).Īfter the completion of what would become known as “Murder Castle”, “Holmes selected mostly female victims from among his employees (many of whom were required as a condition of employment to take out life insurance policies, for which Holmes would pay the premiums but was also the beneficiary), as well as his lovers and hotel guests, whom he would later kill. Henry Howard Holmes) opened the World’s Fair Hotel in Chicago. The Holmes story goes back to 1893 when Herman Webster Mudgett (a.k.a Dr. Holmes, an entrepreneur that is considered to be America’s first serial killer. In the 130 years since Jack the Ripper terrorized London’s Whitechapel neighborhood, hundreds of names have been put forth as possible suspects, but authorities have never been able to definitively conclude who committed the infamous murders.While there are many theories behind what the next season of “American Horror Story” will be about, the most compelling is that “Hotel” will be based on the horrific crimes of H.H. Shortly thereafter he clarified his comments via his personal Facebook page: This means Meghan is related to Jack the Ripper. “We did a study with the FBI and CIA and Scotland Yard regarding handwriting analysis. When asked about his connection to Markle, and their shared connection to Holmes-and, possibly, Jack the Ripper-Mudgett replied: In 2017, American Ripper-an eight-part History Channel series-investigated Mudgett’s belief that Holmes and Jack were indeed one and the same. Mudgett came to this conclusion based on Holmes’s personal diaries, which he inherited. While finding out that you’re related-however distantly-to a man believed to have murdered 27 people isn’t something you’d probably want to share with Queen Elizabeth II when asking her to pass the Yorkshire pudding at Christmas dinner, what makes the story even more interesting is that Mudgett believes that his great-great-grandpa was also Jack the Ripper! If that connection is correct, then it would mean that Markle, too, is related to Holmes. The claim comes from Holmes’s great-great-grandson, American lawyer Jeff Mudgett, who recently discovered that he and Markle are eighth cousins. According to Meet the Markles, a new television documentary produced for England’s Channel Four, the former Suits star has a distant relation to H.H. But it turns out that her bloodline's talent for grabbing headlines dates back much further than the announcement that Markle and Prince Harry were getting hitched-and for much more sinister reasons. Between staging paparazzi photos and writing open letters to Prince Harry advising him to call off his wedding, Meghan Markle’s family has been keeping the media pretty busy lately.
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