The alien premise of American Horror Story season 10’s Death Valley kicks off by putting a new spin on the infamous mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart’s disappearance. Death Valley follows two timelines in which different characters become subject to the supernatural phenomena of aliens who have landed on Earth. The first takes place in the 1950s, documenting President Dwight Eisenhower as a UFO crashes in the desert, having already abducted and manipulated several humans to lead the alien cause. The second occurs in the present day, following four college students who become impregnated by aliens after a camping trip in the desert.
This isn’t the first time American Horror Story has included extraterrestrials as a season’s villains; AHS season 2’s Asylum featured aliens inexplicably abducting and experimenting on several characters. AHS: Death Valley is tackling some of the longest-held conspiracy theories in the United States dealing with extraterrestrials, turning the alien theories into a real, decades-in-the-making government coverup. Taking it a step further, Death Valley intertwines aliens with a rewrite of one of America’s biggest mysteries: The unexplained disappearance of famed aviator Amelia Earhart.
Amelia Earhart is most notable as the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as well as setting countless other aviation records before mysteriously disappearing in 1937. On a trip where she planned to become the first female aviator to circumnavigate the globe, Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on their way to Howland Island. Earhart, Noonan, and their plane were never found, which has led to a plethora of historic American conspiracy theories over what could have possibly happened on that day in 1937. Some have speculated that the plane crashed and sank, some believe they lived and landed on a separate island, others hypothesized the Japanese captured them, and some, like American Horror Story’s depiction, believe she was abducted by aliens.
American Horror Story’s episode sees President Eisenhower (Neal McDonough) called to the desert after a UFO has landed, where he finds a shaken Amelia Earhart (Lily Rabe) near the wreckage, nearly two decades after her disappearance. Earhart says as she and Noonan were flying over the Pacific everything went white, which American Horror Story had already clearly shown means aliens were taking the aviators. She says the aliens had messed with all of their instruments and the plane was going berserk, with the nearby Howland Island missing from the ocean. AHS: Death Valley's character is found with extraterrestrial tattoos all on her back, where the aliens had prodded her with needles, put things inside of her, and taken her blood.
Death Valley’s ‘50s characters also discover that Amelia Earhart was impregnated by the aliens during her abduction, which also happened to the present-day AHS college students - for both the men and women. American Horror Story season 10 also shows that Earhart hasn’t aged a day since her disappearance, even though the ‘50s timeline is placed 20 years after the date she went missing. There are still several other details the show hasn't answered in changing the facts of her disappearance, such as what came of her co-pilot Fred Noonan. With Earhart showing up in the first episode of Death Valley, American Horror Story will likely reinvent several other famous conspiracy-ridden mysteries that could involve aliens throughout the season’s remainder.
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