List RulesVote up your favorite monster of the week episodes of The X-Files Monster to air.
Sometimes you don't want all the mythology and mess and just want to enjoy Mulder and Scully investigating something weird, but which episodes of The X-Files are just the monster, no conspiracy? We've compiled this list of every X-Files monster of the week episode for you to browse and vote on. Do you like "Tooms" the best, or is "Arcadia" your favorite episode of The X-Files? Whether it's another one of Scully's vacations going wrong - again - or Mulder hyper focusing on baseball, lake monsters, or vampires, monster of the week episodes are many an X-Files fan's favorite and are often scarier, more haunting, or funnier than the episodes that follow the mythology.
There doesn't have to be a specific monster to qualify as a "monster of the week" episode, it just needs to be unconnected to the wider mythology of The X-Files to qualify. Sometimes the monster is a clear cut thing like Jersey devils and sometimes it's just the general sadness of being unable to help the people we used to love. To determine once and for all what the best monster of the week episodes of The X-Files are, let's rank every one from best to worst.
Vote up your favorite monster of the week episodes of The X-Files, and vote down any meh episodes that you didn't enjoy, despite how much you love X-Files as a whole. It can be difficult to put one monster of the week episode over the other when there are so many good, terrifying, and weird ones, which is why you can vote on however many episodes you like.
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384Bad Blood
February 22, 1998Season: 5
Episode Number: 12
After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents... more on WikipediaMonster: Ronnie Strickland (vampire)
2
417Home
October 11, 1996Season: 4
Episode Number: 2
A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting... more on WikipediaMonster: The Peacock family
3
377Tooms
April 22, 1994Season: 1
Episode Number: 21
Eugene Tooms is released from the sanitarium, and Mulder becomes personally involved to ensure... more on WikipediaMonster: Eugene Victor Tooms
4
315Squeeze
September 24, 1993Season: 1
Episode Number: 3
One of Scully's friends from the FBI academy, now working in the Violent Crimes Unit, asks her... more on WikipediaMonster: Eugene Victor Tooms
5
317Humbug
March 31, 1995Season: 2
Episode Number: 20
"Humbug" is the twentieth episode of the second season of American science fiction television... more on WikipediaMonster: Leonard
6
305Ice
November 5, 1993Season: 1
Episode Number: 8
When members of an Arctic research team mysteriously kill each other and themselves only days... more on WikipediaMonster: Parasitic ice worms
7
305The Host
September 23, 1994Season: 2
Episode Number: 2
A.D. Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from... more on WikipediaMonster: Flukeman
8
220Detour
November 23, 1997Season: 5
Episode Number: 4
While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape... more on Wikipedia9
210Beyond the Sea
January 7, 1994Season: 1
Episode Number: 13
When death row inmate Luther Lee Boggs claims to be psychic and can lead Mulder to a serial... more on WikipediaMonster: Luther Lee Boggs
10
3010Arcadia
March 7, 1999Season: 6
Episode Number: 15
On their first official case back on the X-Files, Mulder and Scully go undercover as a married... more on WikipediaMonster: Ubermenscher
11
288Pusher
February 23, 1996Season: 3
Episode Number: 17
"Pusher" is the seventeenth episode of the third season of the American science fiction... more on WikipediaMonster: Robert Patrick Modell
12
255Eve
December 10, 1993Season: 1
Episode Number: 11
When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are inexplicably murdered at the exact same... more on WikipediaMonster: The Eves (a government clone experiment)
13
200Never Again
February 2, 1997Season: 4
Episode Number: 13
While Mulder is forced to take a vacation he leaves Scully with an assignment to keep her busy... more on WikipediaMonster: Betty
14
258Irresistible
January 13, 1995Season: The X-Files season 2
Episode Number: 13
A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead... more on WikipediaMonster: Donald Pfaster
15
2711Firewalker
November 18, 1994Season: 2
Episode Number: 9
"Firewalker" is the ninth episode of the second season of the American science fiction... more on WikipediaMonster: Silicon-based parasite
16
170Quagmire
May 3, 1996Season: 3
Episode Number: 22
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of disappearances and attacks around a lake where... more on WikipediaMonster: Big Blue
17
248Small Potatoes
April 20, 1997Season: The X-Files season 4
Episode Number: 20
Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for... more on WikipediaMonster: Eddie Van Blundht
18
248Hungry
November 21, 1999Season: The X-Files season 7
Episode Number: 3
A monster who feeds on human brain matter tries to lead a normal life, but he soon cannot... more on WikipediaMonster: Rob Roberts
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204Roland
May 6, 1994Season: 1
Episode Number: 23
"Roland" is the twenty-third episode of the first season of the American science fiction... more on WikipediaMonster: Arthur & Roland Grable
20
204Drive
November 15, 1998Season: 6
Episode Number: 2
Mulder is trapped in a car with a man who has developed a serious ear condition which can only... more on WikipediaMonster: Patrick Garland Crump
21
204The Unnatural
April 25, 1999Season: 6
Episode Number: 19
Mulder meets with Agent Arthur Dales' brother (also named Arthur) and is told a tale of a... more on WikipediaMonster: Josh Exley
22
2511Chinga
February 8, 1998Season: The X-Files season 5
Episode Number: 10
Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation... more on WikipediaMonster: Chinga
23
184Gender Bender
January 21, 1994Season: 1
Episode Number: 14
Monster: The Kindred
Mulder and Scully investigate a closed community called the Kindred, who appear to have the ability to switch gender.
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2210all things
April 09, 2000Season: 7
Episode Number: 17
A series of coincidences leads Scully to a married man she had an affair with during medical... more on Wikipedia25
140Our Town
May 12, 1995Season: 2
Episode Number: 24
After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds... more on WikipediaMonster: Walter Chaco