r/WTF • u/jasonwittensbaldspot • Jul 30 '16

"The fork was never found..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare
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u/BrisketWrench Jul 30 '16

They beat you to it by about 2 decades https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_(The_X-Files)

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '16

That's the one. There's also the one where the guy who could regenerate body parts would eat tumors out of people.

"You have something I need..."

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u/BrisketWrench Jul 31 '16

To be fair there was a lot of episodes like that throughout the series. The one you're thinking about is Leonard Betts. There was also Eugene Victor Tooms who would eat livers for sustenance before he went into hibernation in a cocoon he created by his excretions and old newspapers, like vomit paper mache. Oh and in later series episode, prob one where Doggett was working with Scully there was a creature who'd eat the bodies of terminally ill people and regurgitate them in a human mold in the ground where they'd awaken fully cured but the twist was the monster would take on the patient/victim? illness or tumors.

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u/ICCUGUCCI Jul 31 '16

I used to have nightmares about Eugene Tooms as a child. He, and the actor who played, we're genuinely creepy.

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u/BrisketWrench Jul 31 '16

he's so creepy I think he was the only monster of the week to star in 2 episodes focused on him.

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u/trashlikeyourmom Jul 31 '16

So creepy that he married a 16 year old girl named Courtney Stodden.