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The reason why is somehow even more stomach-churning, as it is revealed that a local family, the Peacocks, have been in-breeding for generations.Īn early scene shows the brothers burying the newborn alive after discovering it shared the same defects as their other children. The disturbing tale takes on a fresh sense of disgust after FBI agents Mulder and Scully, the agents assigned to the titular “X-Files”, discover that the baby died of dirt inhalation… meaning it was buried alive. Rest assured, however, that an episode of television that opened with the discovery of an infant buried in a shallow grave was pretty serious stuff 22 years ago. More disturbing still is the tale of how the ill-fated newborn ended up buried in a field, only to be found so soon by a children’s baseball team. So what was all the buzz about? Well if you weren’t around on that particular Sunday, back in 1996, some of the images and plot details might sound a bit tame in this day and age, where grim shows like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones regularly command the attention of those gathered at the proverbial water cooler.
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The X-Files dared to do it all the way back in the mid-90s. Few shows today would dare to show the rotting corpse of a murdered infant on television.