Field Trip

"Field Trip" is the twenty–first episode of the sixth season of the TV series "The X-Files". He belongs to the "monster of the week" type and is not related to the main "mythology" of the series.

Agents Mulder and Scully investigate the mysterious death of a couple of lovers, from whom only skeletons remain. They discover giant mycelium secreting substances that cause agents to hallucinate: two separate episodes that eventually merge into one common vision. As a result, both are rescued by an FBI team led by Walter Skinner.

In Agent Mulder's hallucination, a short gray alien with a big head, huge black eyes and a small mouth appears. Unlike classical representations, you can count five fingers on his hand instead of four.

A huge mycelium secretes substances that can affect the human body. Fungal spores can cause very realistic hallucinations at the same time as paralysis of the whole body. Mushrooms also secrete a liquid similar in composition to gastric juice, with which they digest their victims.