American Horror Story: Ghost Town
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What's more American than the Wild West?
The year is 1903, just after the turn of the century. The place is Ruby, a booming mining town in the desolate Arizona mountains. When a prominent public individual vanishes without a trace, the citizens of Ruby find themselves entangled in a sinister plot hundreds of years in the making. Nothing can prepare them to face the terrors they will encounter on their hunt for the truth.
And you can bet... not all of them will come out of it alive.
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