- Confirmed
- Jossed. The next season will be set in 1960, so unless Michael has a time machine.....
- Further Jossed, as even though a good portion of the season is present day, he does not show up.
Theory 2: Seth hangs out around Phil a lot in season 1. He accidentally found some of his time travel stuff and transported back to the 80s and become younger where Constance, wanting another child, took him in. She died his hair so he could look more like her actual son, named him Tate because he was too young to remember his name/care, and raised him as her own. When he's growing up he has 2 lives in his head which would be too confusing to almost anyone. He still had his previous intelligence (ex: Poetry and books about birds). From remembering 2 lives and everything at home or his tough 2nd upbringing combined with memories of everyone taunting him as a nerd in his 1st upbringing made him go mad/confused, thus the shooting.
- Seems likely, given the events of "Nor'easter".
- Jossed. Neither were.
- Jossed. Not resolved.
- In fact, the aliens themselves could be more seen as representing faith than science, what with their miraculous appearances and resurrections...
- Jossed. Previews for his origin story seem to show Abusive Parents with subsequent psychosis.
- Jossed. He's really there to frame Kit for the murders.
- Jossed. The little girl is a completely different character and is still alive.
- Jossed. Different reason entirely why the demon recognized him and for his stoicness. See below.
- Jossed. Different reason entirely why he was so calm speaking to Lana. See below.
- Jossed (at least the abduction part), as they could've taken Arden at the end of "Unholy Night" yet took Grace's body instead. Pepper reveals later that they were indeed watching him, though it was to make fun of him.
- Jossed. Sister Jude never had any children, as she was rendered sterile due to syphilis.
- Confirmed to be Dr. Thredson.
- However... the 2012 Bloody Face has blue eyes while Thredson has brown eyes and would be too old in the present, meaning there's a high chance there's two. So who's the 2012 Bloody Face?
- Confirmed in "The Coat Hanger" to be Lana and Thredson's Child by Rape, who also grew up in the foster system. "Spilt Milk" later confirms that Thredson has been dead for years and his Bloody Face activities have become public knowledge.
- Linked through the use of "Dominique" in Poe's "House of Leaves."
- Jossed. Sheer coincidence.
- Shelley references Delta of Venus, a book that did not come out until 1978, in what is said to be 1964.
- Jossed. Just a case of improper research.
- And the different seasons are her incarnations.
- While not a Time Lord, the Angel of Death remarks that Sister Jude's 'song' is plaintive in relation to her previous 'song'. So there is apparently some confirmation of 'incarnations' of characters.
- Those previous 'songs' are explicitly meant to be the other times Sister Jude wished for death - like when her fiancé left her shortly before their wedding day after giving her syphilis and when she hit a girl with her car and fled.
- While not a Time Lord, the Angel of Death remarks that Sister Jude's 'song' is plaintive in relation to her previous 'song'. So there is apparently some confirmation of 'incarnations' of characters.
- His abduction is actually the aliens activating his sleeper protocols, to impregnate women in order to save their race.
- Possibly Jossed, possibly not. We never actually find out why the aliens were so fascinated with Kit.
- With James Wong as producer, all signs point to this theory. If not a relative, then he is the CSM.
- Dr. Arden will be abducted by aliens and experimented on. We, the viewers, want to see him suffer after what he has done.
- Jossed. He's not abducted, mainly because he cremates himself alive.
- The show's Expy of either Damien Thorn or Michael Myers, or perhaps both.
- Both characters are confirmed as having syphilis, a disease that eventually reaches and slowly destroys the mind. The series, now, is a fantasy by Kit or Jude as they themselves are in the normal Briarcliff. All of the characters stand for someone they actually know in the real asylum.
- Jossed. Both characters are survived by others, who still talk about the events as having actually happened. If any of it was a fantasy, it was Lana's, but there are no hints that this is the case.
- Either Sister Jude or someone else will try to kill her in an attempt to kill the demon inside her, but at the last minute, the demon will jump to someone else, letting Sister Mary Eunice die as herself.
- Half-Jossed, she is killed, but apparently so is the demon.
- Once it got tired or forcibly removed from Mary Eunice, it jumped to Lana's baby, killing Lana when she gave birth. Could also explain the voices he's hearing.
- Or alternatively, the demon brought Lana's baby back to life since the possessed Mary Eunice did touch Lana, and plans on using the baby as their next vessel.
- The last shot of "Spilt Milk" is the cross hanging about Lana's bed as she feeds her baby, and from her perspective, it's inverted. The demon could have successfully jumped into the baby...
- Jossed. The voices Johnny's hearing are likely caused by his drug use.
- She created the Charlotte identity as a way of suppressing her traumatic memories from the Holocaust, so much that her husband never found out. Seeing her diary reemerge triggered all those memories and led her to Arden, who she had correctly identified as Gruper.
- [[spoiler: Confirmed. She really was Anne Frank and was telling the truth. Dr.Arden was really the Nazi as seen in Anne/Charlotte's last episode after her lobotomy. (A picture on the memorial shows a young Arden in Nazi uniform behind none other than Adolf Hitler.) What makes it worse is that Anne seems to still have her real memories as she is seen flinching after her husband talks to her but realises now she can't tell the truth anymore because no one will believe her.
- Also a tearjerker when the husband mentions 'I have to admit, we've had people mention similarities and the way she DOES look like Anne.' ]]]
- Not necessarily confirmed. The Nazi hunter was able to perform independent research and discover Dr. Arden’s true identity. If “Anne” really was just Charlotte, her obsessive research into Auschwitz could possibly have lead her to make the same discovery.
- Morgan got his life together at some point and will eventually go to medical school for either psychology, or fail at surgical school and fall back on psychology as a means for him to be like his father. It also explains why Ben is so adamant about having a normal family in the first season, and also helps to explain the troubled past that he mentions to Tate in season 1.
- Jossed. Lana kills him.
- Alternate theory: Ben Harmon is actually Johnny Morgan from an alternate timeline, where he was adopted and raised by the Harmons. And while Ben is not perfect, he has managed to not be a Bloody Face copycat.
- Since the aliens are real and an on-set photo of all three actors in the Briarcliff ruins have been leaked, the aliens are going to abduct him and transport him back to time to see what his parents were truly like. Or maybe the ruins of the asylum cause him to have visions of their ghosts.
- Jossed. No alien involvement, and (as stated by Ryan Murphy before the season even began) there were no ghosts. His visions of them are hallucinations. However, confirmed in that he does get to meet his mother. Unfortunately, he does not survive that meeting.
- Johnny shoots her and she hallucinates that she killed him, when actually he shot her as soon as she started talking about him.
- This is one way of looking at that ending. You can interpret it as an ironic foreshadowing of Jude and Lana's trials over the course of the series, ORRR you could see it as something that happened in "Real Life", followed by Lana, scared off by the crazy Nun, walking away and deciding to become a horror-fiction writer rather than a reporter. You can even see how the light reflecting in Jude's eyes in that line "Evil's gonna look right back at you" could have inspired Sister Mary Eunice and the Demon.
- God/the angels seem to also have a vested interest in "conflict". The Angel of Death was not openly hostile toward the demon, but she did express dislike and disgust. She also didn't seem to approve or disapprove of the aliens. When she took Grace's life, and the aliens brought Grace back, Shachath never seemed upset or even worried. Possibly the aliens are on God's side, or simply angels that fail to take A Form You Are Comfortable With.
- The place they take you when you're "abducted" could easily be Heaven. Bright white lights, miracle resurrections, impossible healing, non-sexual pregnancies, and the fact that the children created by the "aliens" are supposed to be some kind of messiahs. The aliens could easily be angels orchestrating the Second Coming.
- His plan to create an immuno booster backfired and instead of creating the virus that attacks the immune system and cause AIDS. Tuberculosis is one of the most deadly infections people with HIV can contract connecting it further and explaining why tuberculosis is so difficult to detect in HIV patients.