

In “My Struggle II,” a plague explodes across the world, causing rapid illness and mass casualties. That virus Carter mentioned was a major plot point in a 2016 episode of The X-Files. “I’ve got serious cred on Info Wars, apparently. “Someone told me last night that Alex Jones was talking about exactly what you are asking about, and how The X-Files actually was talking about spiked viruses long before we ever heard about the coronavirus-or were made more aware of it,” Carter told me in an interview. The X-Files creator Chris Carter is just as vexed by this turn of events as anyone. This sounds suspiciously similar to the QAnon conspiracy theories that came out 15 years later, claiming that there was a microchip being implanted in anyone who gets a coronavirus vaccine. One of the most blatant examples of this prescience comes by way of a 1996 episode, “Herrenvolk.” In this episode, Scully finds proof that smallpox vaccinations were used to catalogue people. But The X-Files was oddly, specifically, prescient about things that we are facing today in our increasingly conspiracy-laden world. Like most sci-fi, the fiction often becomes science fact as our technology grows. They worked in the X-File unit of the FBI, investigating UFOs, mutants, and other inexplicable cases outside the FBI mainstream. The X-Files starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Special Agents Mulder and Scully. They are also all plot points of The X-Files, a TV show that is almost 30 years old. Vaccinations that track and catalogue human beings. A killer virus that annihilates a population.
