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(#13) "Space" (Season One, Episode 9)
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon where people perceive familiar sounds and shapes in random patterns (like this!). In 2001, NASA released the now-infamous pictures that captured a supposed "Face on Mars."
The photos and their associated mystery inspired The X-Files creator Chris Carter write the episode "Space," with references to both the face and the condition of the unknown planet.
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(#20) "Paper Clip" (Season Three, Episode 2)
After World War II, the U.S. government snatched up various high-ranking Nazi officers and other skilled personnel in an operation called "Operation Paperclip." The episode "Paper Clip" exposes the results of experiments done by Nazi doctors working for the US military in secret. One of the characters was named after a German Jew, Victor Klemperer, who escaped prosecution by hiding in American-controlled territories.
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(#1) "Humbug" (Season Two, Episode 20)
Many decades ago, freak shows were common across the United States as part of traveling carnivals and circuses. One show in particular, called "The Jim Rose Circus," stood out amongst the rest. The episode "Humbug" was inspired by a VHS tape of The Jim Rose Circus. In fact, you can watch some of the freak show members act as characters in the episode, which follows the life of a traveling carnival.
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(#6) "Home" (Season Four, Episode 2)
The episode "Home" is based on the true story of the Ward Family, made up of four illiterate brothers who lived under one roof outside Syracuse, NY. When one of them was found dead, a murder investigation opened by the police found disturbing facts about how the boys lived, and how one of them died. This story, along with a tale told by Charlie Chaplin in his autobiography, formed the basis for this spine-chilling episode.
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(#12) "Blood" (Season Two, Episode 3)
What do you get when you combine chemical insecticides, mass shootings, a crippling fear of blood, and the inhumanity of modern technology? Well, if you're the X-Files writers, you wind up with the episode "Blood," a story loosely based on three separate events: the mass shooter Charles Whitman, the controversy over spraying of crops with the insecticide Malathion, and The X-Files writer Glen Morgan's own hemophobia.
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(#3) "The Jersey Devil" (Season One, Episode 5)
New Jersey - home to the Jersey Shore "guido" and The Jersey Devil sightings. In January 1909, hundreds of people reported that a kangaroo-like animal with leathery bat wings and an elongated horse face attacked trolley cars, social clubs, and hunters around town. Police even claimed to have spotted and fired upon the monster, but despite their best efforts to hunt it down, a body was never found.
The X-Files riffs on the legend of the Jersey Devil in the episode, "The Jersey Devil" (naturally). It focuses on the resurgence of attacks on the New Jersey Turnpike that leave victims with missing their limbs.
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"X-Files" is a suspenseful drama released on FOX, every suspense enthusiast should not miss this TV series. The drama tells the exploration of the truth hidden in the X files. During the investigation, people experienced many unusual things that could not be explained by science or logic. X files is a department of the FBI, the cases they deal with are always related to supernatural phenomena and unusual crimes.
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