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(#21) "Badlaa" (Season Eight, Episode 10)
An unfortunate experience at an airport in India, beggars with no legs, and a misunderstanding of cultural norms were all inspirations for the episode "Badlaa." The episode shines a light on the real practice of Muslim and Sufi holy men, who survive simply by begging onlookers for money and food. These beggars are called "Fakirs," and in this episode, a double amputee has the ability to crawl inside people.
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(#23) "Kaddish" (Season Four, Episode 15)
What is it about about hellbent, man-eating monsters that appeal to almost every religion and culture in the world? In the episode "Kaddish," the FBI investigates the Jewish myth of the Golem, who comes back from the dead to seek vengeance. But even before that episode, The X-Files often portrayed all types of demonic creatures, including the Wendingo and the Chupacabra.
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(#10) "Folie à Deux" (Season Five, Episode 19)
Folie à deux is a very particular form of madness in which a person develops a delusional belief or hallucination, and then spreads that delusion to another person. Tackling mental disorders was nothing new for The X-Files, but this time, in the episode "Folie à Deux," agent Mulder himself develops same psychosis as one of the suspects he's investigating.
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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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(#2) "The Erlenmeyer Flask" (Season One, Episode 24)
Some say it was mass hysteria, others claim it was the ingestion of a powerful solvent. One thing everyone agrees on is that on February 19, 1994, a woman named Gloria Ramirez checked into an emergency room in Riverside, CA. The smell of her blood incapacitated 23 staff members, five of which had to be hospitalized themselves. Gloria died within 45 minutes of her arrival, but the mystery of her toxic blood continues to linger. This incident was the inspiration behind The X-Files Season 1 episode, "The Erlenmeyer Flask."
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(#22) "The Sixth Extinction" (Season Seven, Episode 1)
The episode "The Sixth Extinction" relies heavily on the "Ancient Aliens" theory that Carl Sagan himself endorsed for a while; he called it "paleo contact." It suggests that Earth was visited by intelligent beings during pre-historic times, who either seeded man as a species on Earth, or interacted and guided ancient humans to live on this very planet.
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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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