Ryan Murphy has confirmed what most fans have suspected – all of the ‘American Horror Story’s seasons are connected one way or another. Murphy gave a few details about how each season relates to the other, but didn’t divulge the entire mystery, while talking with EW.

“This is the first year where we begin to tell you that season two is connected to season four which is connected to season one. People have started to write articles about that. A lot of their hypotheses have been completely right on. That’s the fun of the show. Hopefully by the end of the run, be it 10 years or 15 years, people will be able to stand back and be able to say, “Oh that was connected to x.” Adding, “They’re all connected. We’re just beginning to tell you how they’re connected. They’re all very separate but there’s clues every season that we’re now telling you how the different worlds are intertwined.”

Murphy also teased that season four of the popular FX series contains clues (top hat coffee cups) about season five. Murphy confirmed the connection between all of the chapters after fans begin to take notice after it was announced that actresses Lily Rabe and Naomi Grossman would return to the series.