X-tra: Home was the first (although not the last) episode to be preceded by a warning about its mature and graphic content. This is definitely not one to watch before bedtime! Memorable, more for the wrong reasons than the right. Imagery doesn’t get much more gruesome and shocking than this. Why it’s scary: The Peacock boys the horrific murder of Sheriff Taylor and his wife the body under the bed and the underlying incest theme.

In doing so, the agents stumble upon the family’s shocking secret a secret the brothers tried to bury when they disposed of the infant. What happens: The gruesome discovery of a deformed new born baby leads Mulder and Scully to investigate their prime suspects – the freakish Peacock brothers. So, sit down, turn the lights off, close the curtains and get ready to relive ten of The X-Files best scariest ever episodes… Neither is it a countdown to the scariest scary episode either – we’d rather they were all judged to be equally good in their own right. In honour of what has been a monumental, groundbreaking television series, The Official X-Files Magazine has chosen ten of the best scariest X-Files episodes – ever.

Scariest x files episodes