It’s a disturbing episode and the character of Eugene Tooms is creepy and believable thanks in larger part to the excellent job done by actor Doug Hutchison. Not only that, but he was able to contort his body into very tight spaces which allows him to enter and exit homes without being noticed. It’s the wonderful story of a mutant who every thirty years needs to feed on human livers to survive. It didn’t take long for the X-Files to get their creep on, so to speak, with the episode ‘Squeeze’. Season 1, Episode 3: Squeeze & Season 1, Episode 21: Tooms So in no particular order, let the top five begin… The X-Files also had many stand alone episodes that provided some incredibly horrific, creepy, humorous and tense moments. However, it wasn’t all two face governments and UFO sightings. Much of the show dealt with government cover ups and conspiracies, all wrapped around the questions of the existence of extraterrestrials or aliens. Early in the 1990’s Chris Carter created The X-Files, the weekly adventures of two FBI agents investigating cases that could not be classified due to their unique characteristics.

Scariest x files episodes