
It claims that, at some point in the 1950s, Eisenhower was visited at the White House by an inhumanly handsome man calling himself Valiant Thor, who claimed to come from an advanced civilization beneath the surface of Venus and wanted to help humanity avoid destroying itself by preventing nuclear war. Fern, who cut his teeth on American Horror Story playing the Antichrist in Apocalypse, brings the requisite poisonous charm to the part.ĭefinitive stories vary, like many urban legends, but the basic assertions come from a book called The Stranger at the Pentagon by Frank E. As he later explains to Eisenhower, the aliens believe that their true forms would be so horrifying to humans that Eisenhower would call the deal off immediately. He appears to be an artificial creation of some kind, even opening the top of his head to reveal alien technology working beneath it. Thor's precise nature on the show is unknown, though he is not a possessed human being, which has been the aliens' preferred means of communication thus far. Far from benevolent, he's played as the smiling face on a monstrous conspiracy.

He reveals a piece of the aliens' long promised technology – a device deliberately similar to modern phones and mobile devices – as well as mitigating the shock and horror of national leadership at the grotesque results of their efforts. In "Blue Moon," Thor appears in 1957, casually brushing aside White House security's every effort to contain him. American Horror Story imagines the figure as a liaison between humanity and the aliens Eisenhower has signed a deal with.
