The X-Files Research Paper

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Have you ever tried to go to sleep, look at the clock reading 2 a.m., and then just took out your laptop and started reading stuff? Of course you have, but sometimes you reach a click spiral that leads you to reading about mysterious true stories that seem like they're pulled right from an episode of The X-Files. Hell, some episodes are influenced directly from the following stories. The problem with reading a lot of these stories is that you usually tend to read them in the middle of the night.

The Insatiable Tarrare

Have you ever been so hungry that you could eat and entire large pizza by yourself? What happens when you actually eat all of that food? Yeah, you don't want to see pizza again fora long time. One person couldn't quite stop
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Dr. Courville and Dr.Percy had been prepared for 15 laborers near the hospital gates. Usually, Tarrare was restricted when he was around food since he would probably got nuts, but this time he was allowed to go at it and ate the entire meal of two large meat pies, plates of grease and salt and four gallons of milk, and then immediately fell asleep. Four gallons of milk would make a competitive eat walk away without even making a dent into half of that, and that's not including the food he …show more content…
He tore the cat's abdomen open with his teeth and drank its blood, and proceeded to eat the entire cat aside from its bones, before vomiting up its fur and skin. Following this, hospital staff offered Tarrare a variety of other animals including snakes, lizards and puppies, all of which were eaten. He also swallowed an entire eel without chewing, having first crushed its head with his teeth.

The Death of Gloria Ramirez

Dead bodies are pretty gross. The fact that we all have a depressing party around a person in a fancy box is really creepy when you start to think about it at a funeral. The death of Gloria Ramirez takes it to another level. Before Ramirez died, she was rushed to a hospital on the evening of February 19, 1994. She was already suffering from advanced cervical cancer, but what else was happening to her baffled the staff at the Riverside General Hospital.

First, they staff tried sedating her with diazepam, midazolam, and lorazepam. It wasn't really working. It was at that moment that they noticed that her skin was covered in an oily sheen, her breath smelled like a fruity garlic, and her blood samples smelled like ammonia and had little particles in

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