The True Story That Inspired The Nurses Of American Horror Story: Roanoke
Season six of American Horror Story is now under way, the theme, ‘My Roanoke Nightmare’. This season is set up like a show, ‘My Roanoke Nightmare’. Odds are you ave seen those ghost shows like ‘My Ghost Story’ which reenact people’s experiences with paranormal activity. This season is heavy with true story inspired details. In the premiere AHS revealed the season’s connection to The Lost Colony, the true story of the disappearance of 117 people in 1590 in Roanoke, North Carolina. Episode two introduced two murderous sisters who served as nurses (Maya Berko, Kristen Rakes) while murdering patients, whose first letters of their names made up the word “Murder”. The two disappeared before finishing the word painted on the wall of the house, leaving “Murde”. What makes this so unnerving is that it was based in reality. We haven’t sen the last of the killer nurses on the series. In 1996, Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine Wood met while working at
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