The story takes place in 2011 and follows the Harmon family: psychiatrist Ben, his wife Vivien, and their teenage daughter Violet, who move from Boston to a restored mansion in Los Angeles after Vivien has a miscarriage and Ben had an affair with one of his students. Soon after moving they encounter the home's former residents, the Langdons – Constance and her two children, Tate and Addie and the disfigured Larry Harvey. Ben begins seeing patients out of his home office. One in particular, a possibly psychotic teenage boy named Tate Langdon, takes interest in kindred spirit Violet, who suffers from depression. Ben is unaware that Tate is both a ghost and the son of Constance. As they settle in, weird and wonderful events begin to occur increasing regularity. It is soon revealed that there have been upwards of 20 violent deaths in the home over the course of its history, and is known to be haunted by anyone who has ever died on the property. The season is primarily set in the modern day, with flashbacks to the 1920s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
During the series, while exploring the attic, Vivien discovers a latex bondage suit that was owned by the previous gay couple who was murdered in the house. She later is raped by a man wearing it, who she believes is Ben, but is actually Tate. Vivien's rape results in the rare condition that the womb can hold twins by different fathers. It is later revealed that the reasoning behind Tate's actions was to conceive a baby for Nora, a ghost in the house who lost her own child.
On Halloween, the only day the the dead can walk among the living, Violet learns that Tate is an infamous school shooter, who murdered a library full of his classmates, as well as crippling a teacher and setting Larry Harvey on fire to punish his mother Constance for having Tate's younger (and deformed) brother murdered. Trying to come to terms with the monster Tate is, and her own romantic feelings for him, Violet then commits suicide, however she doesn't realise was successful until weeks later when she discovers she cannot leave the house and Tate shows her, her own body. After many poltergeists, Vivien is committed to an insane asylum, while Ben is convinced that the second twin was fathered by Luke, a neighbourhood security officer but then later finds out Vivien was actually assaulted by Tate and has her leave the asylum.
During Vivien’s birth she later dies and as a result Ben contemplates suicide to be with them. Instead, Vivien shows herself after not wanting Ben to see her, and convinces Ben to leave the house immediately for the protection of the baby. As Ben is leaving the house, he is caught and murdered by Hayden, who hangs him to simulate a suicide. Now trapped in the house, the Harmons team up with Moira and the other spirits to keep other families from moving in by scaring them away. Meanwhile, Tate is now living with Hayden as they have both been blocked out by the Harmons. Three years later, Constance returns to Los Angeles, but finds that her grandson, Michael (the Antichrist), has murdered his nanny. She slowly walks towards the smiling child as he rocks back and forth. She then smiles and whispers, "Now what am I gonna do with you?"
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