A medical case in real life that has forever changed mythology X-Files

According to Chris Snellgrove
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One of the ghostly tropics X-files It was a revelation that extraterrestrial blood (or blood of aliens/human hybrids) is toxic to anyone who is exposed to him. In the end, this green blood became the foundation of increasingly complex franchise mythology, but most fans do not realize that this hemoglobin horror has been based on a medical case in real life. In 1994, a woman in Los Angeles Gloria Ramirez began issuing toxic vapors when her blood was drawn, a phenomenon that confused scientists and fascinated the showrunner Chris Carter.

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According to X-files RW Goodwin producer about special features for show Mythology, Vol. 1 – abduction Set DVD, Carter had an immediate response to the news report on Ramirez’s apparently toxic blood: “Well, that’s a great thing for aliens, you know? That’s what led X-files Final of Season 1, “Erlenmeyer Baňka”, which has a scene where Dr. Secare’s foreign Blood poisons of the rescuer around his body.

If you are a long -time fan X-filesThen you know that Carter has always taken the perverted joy of creating fictional episodes from real mysteries and bizarre phenomena. In this case, Carter is the first to admit that he and the producers took freedoms with the original story and did things differently than other networks.

“You can establish a connection, but it wasn’t a perfect connection,” he said of the sound commentary for “Erlenmeyer flask”. “It wasn’t as if you could see in another show where he would re -create a woman who had brought, and when they opened it, these vapors come out.” X-files Showrunner “He wanted it to be a little different” because “this guy has an alien blood in him,” and “I wanted to speculate a little about what it could be.”

Of course X-files Guru’s desire to “speculate” about what extraterrestrial blood could be really summarized his style of narration to do something cool and then try to explain it later. During the remaining seasons, we will learn more about how toxic this blood is when it reappears in mythology episodes such as “Colony”, “Endgame”, “Nisei” and others. Finally, we learn that it contains retrovirus that normally changes human blood into something similar to jelly, but that the virus can be abolished by very low temperatures (Scully realizes something in time to save Mulder’s life in the “colony”).

You probably won’t be surprised to hear that X-files He was not always perfectly consistent with the toxicity of extraterrestrial blood. Sometimes exposure to his vapors is toxic. Other times, characters like Scully can walk directly above her and experience nothing more than a burned shoe. And since we find that the only way to kill an extraterrestrial hunter is stabbing them in the back of the neck, the show is remarkably Consistent about whether the blood that occurs will be toxic to the loved ones.

If nothing else, this story is a lesson that the popular paranormal show of everyone is often rooted in shocking events in the real world. X-files We would never have submitted us to the phenomenon of green extraterrestrial blood, if not in case of real life of Gloria Ramirez, women with allegedly toxic, angry blood. It seems that the truth is not just for X-files. It is also as always, way alien than fiction.