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The X Lexicon

A true believer's thumbnail guide to the ABC's of 'The X-Files'

*Adult Video News Porno publication Mulder is said to read in his free time

*Duane Barry Alien abductee who traded Scully for his freedom

*''Beyond the Sea'' Bobby Darin record played at Scully's father's funeral

*Cigarette Smoking Man Shadowy figure who tried to extinguish Mulder and Scully; a.k.a. Cancer Man

*Club Tepes Hollywood Boulevard hangout frequented by vampires

*Crew Cut Man Assassin of Deep Throat; killed by a Wisconsin sheriff

*Dead Horse Remote Alaska town where Mulder searched for his sister

*Deep Throat Mulder's original (now presumed dead) government informant

* Drawstring pants Recurring fashion trend Mulder cited as the reason he doesn't want to live forever

*Erlenmeyer flask Container of alien DNA that Deep Throat died to protect

*Excelsis Dei Convalescent-home site of ghost rape and odd pharmacological experiments with Alzheimer's patients

*Firewalker Volcano-descending camera that filmed parasitic spores

*Fluke Chernobyl-born megaworm found in Newark, N.J., sewers

*Folkstone Haitian-refugee camp run by a voodoo-practicing colonel

*Roland Fuller Mildly retarded janitor psychically driven to murder by the frozen brain of his late twin brother

*Gregors Russian-or alien?-clones posing as doctors in the U.S.

*He Is One Message scrawled on the backs of teens injected with bovine growth hormones-or alien DNA?

*Kill 'Em All Mayhem-inducing message sent by machines to people exposed to an LSD-like insecticide

*The Kindred Amish-ish-or alien?-gender-switching sect

*Krycek Double agent who partnered with Mulder in Scully's absence

*The Lone Gunman Magazine published by conspiracy geeks whom Mulder and Scully consult; a.k.a. TLG

*Manitou Algonquian name for spirit that turns people into killer beasts

*Marty Mulder Alias Mulder used when checking on possible vampires at blood banks

*Preacher Scripture-spouting Vietnam vet who wreaked revenge on doctors who'd deprived him of sleep for 24 years

*Psychokinesis Mental ability to move objects or project one's will

*Walter Skinner Hard-ass FBI administrator who reopened the X-Files

*Sneaky Fox Native American name given to Mulder; a.k.a. Running Fox

*Spooky Derisive nickname given to Mulder by fellow FBI agents

*Starbuck Pet name given to Scully by her Navy-captain father

*Stratego Board game played by Mulder as a kid on Martha's Vineyard

*TRUSTNO.1 Mulder's computer password; Scully easily cracked it

*Mr. X Informant whom Mulder met after Deep Throat's death

*X-Files Unexplained FBI cases; the first one was opened in 1946 by J. Edgar Hoover

Originally posted Mar 10, 1995 Published in issue #265 Mar 10, 1995 Order article reprints
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