re: American Horror Story 12/14 Ep.11 "Birth"

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Who is Thaddeus? He looked awesome!

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Thaddeus is/was the son of Charles and Nora Montgomery (the original owners, the doctor and the chick that told Thaddeus to "go away" in this week's episode) who was kidnapped and mutilated as an infant and now still haunts the house, down in the basement, wearing a lace gown that Nora made for the boy's funeral.

After Thaddeus was returned to the Montgomerys in separate pieces, in jars (not sure why), Charles (addicted to ether) assembled him back together in a horrific Frankenbaby manner and then brought the boy *back to life* using the beating heart of one of his illegal abortion patients.

Although she was horrified Nora herself had become so mentally unbalanced that her desperation for a child drove her to go up to Thaddeus's nursery to see Charles' creation then try to get Thaddeus to suckle her, but she saw that the child now only wanted blood. It was right after that when she killed Charles and herself.

While Thaddeus did die, we still not sure what his motives are nor why he has the face of an old man (my guess to the latter is that anyone whose body is on the property can appear to age). Are we seeing his ghost or the real *re-animated* corpse? Thaddeus is responsible for killing the ginger twins when they broke into the then-abandoned house in the 70s and he also scratched up Leah's face when Violet led her into the basement with the intent to scare her (mission accomplished, btw).