These Are The X-Files Monsters That Still Haunt Our Dreams To This Day

Monsters are real. Anyone who’s ever been a fan of “The X-Files” can tell you as much. While a good portion of screen time over the last 15 years has been dedicated to extraterrestrials and the will they/won’t they relationship status of Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, the series has also given us some of the weirdest, grossest, and most horrifying terrestrial monsters ever seen on television.

Now, some of these nightmare worthy X-Files monsters are so out there that it’s easy to take comfort in knowing there’s no way they could ever exist. But others… well, we’ll let you be the judge.

Luther Lee Boggs (“Beyond the Sea”)

This first season monster isn’t a typical one; Boggs is a death-row inmate and seemingly run-of-the-mill killer.

But he also happens to channel spirits (thanks to a temporary trip to the gas chamber), and there’s something about a man who can appear as your dead father that doesn’t exactly sit well.

Eddie Van Blundht (“Small Potatoes”)

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Eddie is a shapeshifter who can make himself look like anyone he wants. What makes him super disturbing, though, isn’t his paranormal ability; it’s the fact that he uses it to take sexual advantage of unsuspecting women, spiking his town’s birthrate and tail average. Gross.

Donnie Pfaster (“Irresistible” / “Orison”)

A monster so good, he deserves two separate episodes, Donnie Pfaster is a death fetishist on the verge of necrophilia (a concept deemed too risque for early ‘90s audiences) who collects the hair and nails of dead girls.

Donnie Pfaster (“Irresistible” / “Orison”)

While his obsessive behavior over Scully and creepy mommy issues would have been enough to put him on this list, it’s the fact that Donnie Pfaster turned out to be a real-life demon that cements his place here.