A Sci-Fi Series Predicted 9/11 Months Before It Happened, And It’s Now Been Erased From Streaming

Written by Jennifer Asensio | Published 46 seconds ago

X-Files The film was popularly about two FBI agents who investigated encounters with aliens and other cases popular with conspiracy theorists. It was only a matter of time before some appeared on the show as characters.

These conspiracy theorists were known as The Lone Gunmen, a trio of obsessed misfits who published a conspiracy theory magazine. Eventually, the Lone Gunmen got their own show The Lone Gunmenand the first episode ended by coincidentally predicting the only foreign attack on US soil.

The Lone Gunmen episode that predicted the attack on the World Trade Center

In the dually titled episode “Pilot,” the trio discovers a plot to use remote controls to crash a plane into the World Trade Center. Bad actors within the government then use the false flag attack as justification to go after anti-American countries and organizations. With the help of an informant, the heroes are able to save the day before the World Trade Center collapses.

If only that were the case in real life. Six months after the episode’s March 4 premiere, the World Trade Center was bombed by planes. Coincidentally, The Lone Gunmen It was off the air for a long time, having been canceled due to low ratings.

He was The Lone Gunmen A victim of her own conspiracy mentality? If 9/11 were a result of the conspiracy in the episode, its cancellation would seem very suspicious to the kind of person who would subscribe to the trio’s newsletter. The Lone Gunmen It did get positive reviews from critics, but it didn’t enjoy a very good timeslot, airing next to the equally doomed firefly. The show had already ended by June 2001.

The creators who came up with the prediction of 9/11

Among the writers who came up with the story was Chris Carter, creator X-Fileshis stepson and eventually Very bad Creator Vince Gilligan. Both writers have proven themselves to be successful storytellers and their ideas have had a significant impact on the public conversation.

X-Files Tinkering with conspiracy theories The Lone Gunmen It embraced and provided a socially acceptable way of talking about them. Very bad And its spin-off You’d better call Saul Both are deeply personal studies of the extent of corruption their protagonists were willing to embrace.

These are properties that became popular because they were well-crafted stories with compelling characters, even when those characters were villains. It is no wonder they were able to mistakenly predict a terrorist attack because they are good at concocting the types of villains that would unleash such evils upon the world. They didn’t expect anyone to try it in real life.

vince gilligan latest offers, MultipleAvailable on Apple TV. Very bad and You’d better call Saul Available with Netflix subscription. X-Files Streams on Hulu. The Lone Gunmen Mysteriously unavailable on live streaming.