Many conspiracy theorists believe that Chris Carter created "The X-Files" for the FBI as disinformation campaign, citing its spin-off's depiction of a government plot to crash a plane into the World Trade Center to justify a war on terrorists, which aired a few months before 9/11.
Though Carter did in fact create the show to hide government secrets, it was not 9/11 that he was hired to discredit, but rather the scary gooey sewer man from Season 2.



















