Image by Midjourney.com
Back in the 90s I was a huge fan of the X-files. Being an armchair sleuth who loved the paranormal, the weirder the show got, the more it got my attention. Binge watching became a necessity. Even today, I hold David Duchovny’s iconic Fox Mulder in high regard. The show ran 11 seasons with movies to boot and rumors recently rebound with a resurgence of a brand new show this time written by Ryan Coogler instead of Chris Carter (who will be an executive producer and head cheerleader). New show so new characters although one can still hope that perhaps their may be a few cameos by Mulder and his partner Scully who was played by Gillian Anderson.
At any rate, those of you who are fans or just curious, did you ever wonder what Fox Mulder might be doing these days. Heavens (and a few extraterrestrials) knows. With the governments releasing of UFO (UAP – Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) we could sure use him now.
BTW –
The original term, Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), became deeply ingrained in pop culture as synonymous with alien spacecraft, which made it difficult to treat the topic with strict scientific objectivity. As a result, the Pentagon and NASA began using UAP to streamline investigations and encourage military personnel to report unusual encounters without fear of ridicule. The UFO craze hit the United States in 1947. In June of that year, pilot Kenneth Arnold said he saw shiny, unidentifiable objects flying in the sky near Mt. Rainier in Washington. Several weeks later, military personnel announced they were in possession of a “flying disc” after a local rancher found strange debris on his land in Roswell, New Mexico. Decades later, conspiracy theorists claimed that the Roswell disc was a UFO and that the government covered up the incident. – https://www.newsnationnow.com/
My man Mulder was not just caught up in UAPs but also in the theory that alien DNA was being mixed with human DNA to create all sorts of things including indestructible Super Soldiers who would menace the Earth before the final coming of the Great Alien Takeover where mankind would be annihilated.
As a team Mulder and female agent Dana Scully (later his amor) also tackled bizarre cases involving well just about everything paranormal. It was an arm chair sleuth’s dream.
So, what might Mulder be doing today?
“Old Spooky” as he was called would definitely be off the grid living in a small little-known town, identity changed, holed up somewhere with Scully who in the last show announced she was pregnant (again), Supposedly they already had one grown son, a half-alien, who could shapeshift and conveniently disappeared. The new child would have been raised by them. Did the child have special talents as well? You bet. The child is also red-green colorblind just like Mulder and was educated at Oxford just like his father.
His office looks similar to his FBI basement office but much more elaborate because he finally did find out the “truth.” Despite the fact that his FBI office was completely destroyed by fire, clever Mulder actually had hidden the majority of his original files which are stacked and filed in his new office may years ago. It’s pretty messy which is surprising since he is a Libra (born October 13, 1961) and everyone knows the Libra hates a mess. He is however always clean and neat and impeccably dressed when the occasion calls for it. When he was a kid he wanted a peg leg because he felt that would ensure no one could have expectations from him. He outgrew that notion but to this day still sees the advantage of having one so an alleged historic pirate’s peg leg adorns one of the walls. The walls also sport baseball memorabilia. Scully has an impromptu lab in the house. Hey, once in forensics, always in forensics.
Mulder believed in reincarnation and thought to have reincarnated twice that he could recall. Once as a Civil War soldier and the other as a Jewish woman in WWII. He continues to look into reincarnation cases as well as cases involving political crimes and uncovered government secrets. The President would probably like him.
Too bad there isn’t a real-life Fox Mulder who could be challenging these things today.
Because you know, “The Truth is Still Out There.” Damnit!