Shelby Miller starts out as a loving wife in Roanoke. All she and her husband Matt (André Holland) wanted to do was start over after a traumatizing attack, buying a cheap farm home in North Carolina. Spooky sh*t starts happening around the home, and so she and Matt return to Los Angeles, where Sidney Aaron James creates the show My Roanoke Nightmare about their experiences with reenactment actors — Audrey Tindall (Sarah Paulson) for her and Dominic Banks (Cuba Gooding Jr.) for her husband. She ends up in an affair with Dominic, and it's awkward because both the actors and real people go back to the house for a follow-up show.
When Shelby catches Matt having sex with Scáthach (Lady Gaga), she bludgeons him to death then slits her own throat.