The new season of AHS (American Horror Story) is called “My Roanoke Nightmare” and takes place on Roanoke Island in NC. Although it’s not much of an island anymore, in the story it is an island. The story takes place in a house in the middle of a swamp/forest area. The TV show hasn’t shown much of the land that they are on. The couple in the story bought a house from a competing family that the couple calls “Hillbillies” and believe them to be angry over the house purchased by a stuck up, rich family. The reason that the couple decided to buy a house in such a rural area was the wife’s husband was attacked in the city for a gang initiation. Along that time, the wife also has a nightmare of her own: she has a miscarriage, one of the worst types of nightmares. So after all this happens, they win the house and have a happy life living in the middle of nowhere or so they believed. Shelby, the wife, wants to have or at least try to have another child, but their lives turned upside down. They hear an inhuman screeching coming from outside their house so the husband, Matt, goes outside to investigate. Their trashcans are thrown all over and some covered in blood. This triggers a few events leading up to a tape discovered of inhuman rituals being performed and crazy people who lived in their house before them. If you want to know the rest the show is on every night at 9 pm on FX.

So the question raised most about this season is “What does all this paranormal stuff have to do with the Roanoke lost colony?” The lost colony was technically never lost; they just up and vanished or that’s just what’s said. At the first time the colony disappeared, they discovered that the land was too hard to live on so the colony left Roanoke and went back to England. All but a few stayed behind, and when England (John White) came back, there was no one left; not a single soul was found. The only thing to be found was a single skeleton. Theories began to arise that a nearby Indian tribe (Croatoans) killed them. Some solid evidence is that Chief Powhatan boasted about killing the settlers. They may have died in conflict with the Croatoans or in a war between tribes. That doesn’t confirm anything to be true, but it’s one of the biggest and most believable theories. So what does “My Roanoke Nightmare” have in common with the lost colony of Roanoke Island? Nothing, absolutely nothing, or viewers are led to believe and the American Horror Story writers will reveal what it does have to do with the lost colony.