Non-Mythology Timeline: 1970 to 1992

1970s
Eddie Van Blundht, Senior, appears as Eddie the Monkey Man in a circus side show. His son, Eddie Junior, is born with a vestigial tail, which is later surgically removed. Both of them have a unique layer of voluntary muscle under the skin that allows them to appear to be other people. (4x20 Small Potatoes)

Sometime circa 1970, fraternal twins Dwight and Randall Cooper are born, each with unusual visual conditions. Dwight is declared legally blind, and has very limited vision. Randall can see at wavelengths that allow him to see through walls. (8x09 Surekill)

Circa 1970
Walter Skinner enlists in the Marines on his 18th birthday. Later, his patrol in Viet-Nam is caught in an ambush, he is wounded and believes he has an out-of-body experience. He wakes up in a Saigon hospital two weeks later, afraid to look beyond his experience. (3x21 Avatar)

A group of marines at Paris Island submits to a surgical process that eliminates the need for, and their ability to, sleep. (2x04 Sleepless)

Circa 1970-72
The Apollo mission of astronaut Maruc Arelius Belt suffered an oxygen loss. (1x08 Space)

Marty Glenn is born as her mother dies from a stab wound inflicted by Charles Wesley Gotts. Marty is born blind as a result of the loss of blood flow. Gotts, who is also Marty's father, is not caught but is arrested for another crime and sent to prison for 28 years. Marty grows us "seeing" through the eyes of Gotts as he lives in prison. (5x16 Mind's Eye)

1971
Melissa Riedel is born. Mulder will become to believe her to be a reincarnation of his civil war era lover. (4x05 The Field Where I Died)

In Vietnam, a helicopter carrying personnel of the Green Beret B-11 Bloody Sabers is shot down, including Sergeant Nathaniel J. Teager and Lance Corporal Gary Davenport. The soldiers are taken prisoner. (4x16 Unrequited)

1972
Near Bloomington, Indiana, a farmer named Pollidori realizes that his research-scientist son has created a deformed child. The farmer takes the child, and raises him as his own. (5x06 The Post-Modern Prometheus)

1973
In 5x04 Detour, Mulder mentions that he and his father were Indian Guides.

The American Indian Movement occupies the Pine Ridge Reservation village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for 78 days. Law enforcement officers, including the FBI, surround the community. A 43 year old Trego Indian man named Ish is one of the activists. (Historical and 1x18 Shapes)

October, 1973
John Lee Roche claims to have sold an Electro-vac Princess canister vacuum cleaner to William Mulder, as a gift for his wife, Teena. In fact, Mrs. Mulder is given a Princess model, which she takes with her to Greenwich, Connecticut after her divorce. (4x08 Paper Hearts)

1974
Jack Willis enters college. During his school years, both of his parents die, leaving him, among other things, a mountain cabin. At some point during his school years or later he decides on a career in the FBI. (1x14 Lazarus)

June 1975
Addie Sparks is kidnapped from her home in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and killed by John Lee Roche. (4x08 Paper Hearts)

Circa 1975
A house near the Mulder's burns, and Fox and others sleep in the damaged building to keep looters away. For years after he has bad dreams about being trapped in a burning building. (1x11 Fire)

Mulder later says that when he was 14, he stayed up all night to watch the space walk of famous astronaut Marcus Aurelius Belt. (1x08 Space)

Sometime during the 1970s, Herman and Albert Pinckbeck perform together in a magic act. Albert eventually leaves the act and ends up in a career in banking. Herman continues performing. (7x08 The Amazing Maleeni)

1976
Darius Michaud joins the FBI. (Fight the Future)

1977
Henry Flankin, with a new worth of $36,000, acquires an arabic rug in which lives a genie. His first wish is for money. (7x21 Je Souhaite)

1978
Lucy Householder, age 13, escapes from her captor and is found alongside a road in Washington State. She subsequently is in trouble with the law for prostitution and drugs. For a while she lives with a boyfriend who later goes to prison for child endangerment. (3x08 Oubliette)

A fifth series of murders in the northwest, in which the victims are ripped to shreds and eaten, The case remains unsolved. (1x18 Shapes)

At age 13-14, Dana Scully repeatedly sneaks downstairs, steals her mother's cigarettes and goes outside to smoke. She is both revolted by the taste and excited by the danger. (1x12 Beyond the Sea / 4x13 Never Again)

A long-haired Chuck Burks travels in India, collecting information on the occult. He learns about Indian mystics that use powers of the mind to alter other perceptions of reality. (8x12 Badlaa)

April 4, 1978
Henry Flankin has a net worth of $30 million, as the result of one or more wishes granted by a genie. He dies when his final wish is not specific enough. Several items of his furniture, including the arabic rug in which the genie lives, are placed in storage in Missouri. (7x21 Je Souhaite)

1979
Eddie Van Blundht and his girl friend Amanda date throughout high school. Amanda later says they went to the theater every weekend. (4x20 Small Potatoes)

Izzy Berkewitz is born to Shaineh Berkewitz as the result of experiments by a farmer named Pollidori. (5x06 The Post-Modern Prometheus.)

Computer genius Donald Gelman is offered a commercial deal that could set him up as another Bill Gates. He goes hiking in the Sierras to think it over and disappears. In reality he goes into hiding to pursue his own projects, in part because he is being investigated by the NSA. One of the founders of the internet and Artificial Intelligence. (5x11 Kill Switch)

May 1980
Fox Mulder graduates from High School.

1981
Dean Tencate is born in Pocatella, Idaho. (7x10 Sein Und Zeit)

Spring 1982
Dana Scully and her boyfriend Marcus attend the Senior Prom. Afterwards, they party with some friends who build a campfire that attracts the fire department. (4x20 Small Potatoes)

Augustus Cole is admitted to a VA hospital in New Jersey for problems relating to his inability to sleep. (2x04 Sleepless)

Harvard ethnobotanist Wade Davis does extensive field research in Haiti on the alleged phenomenon of zombies. He analyses several zombie potions prepared by voodoo priests and finds Tetrodetoxin in each of them. A lethal poison that in small enough doses can cause paralysis. (2x15 Fresh Bones)

1983
Fox Mulder enters college, graduating from Oxford with a degree in psychology in 1986.

While at Oxford, he develops a relationship with Phoebe Green, who herself becomes a British law enforcement officer. (1x11 Fire)

Computer genius Donald Gelman creates an interlocking set of computer viruses in an attempt to create an artificial intelligence. (5x11 Kill Switch)

1986
Fox Mulder completes his Oxford degree in Psychology.

Mulder is given the FBI badge number 22791. (7x08 The Amazing Maleeni)

Mulder's affair with Diana Fowley is alleged to have begun during this period.

At Greenwood Memorial Hospital in Chicago, four people die. After a lengthy investigation, the incidents are declared accidents. A doctor is also reported dead, who changes his identity and appearance, apparently with satanic assistance. (4x06 Sanguinarium)

Napoleon "Neech" Manley is sentenced to death for a Florida liquor store robbery. Manley was the get away car driver. The actual gunman was killed in the robbery. Appeals in Manley's sentence will take a decade. He becomes obsessed with reincarnation. (3x05 The List)

Sometime in 1986, twins Dwight and Randall Cooper are arrested in Worcester, Mass., for grand theft. Dwight serves time in prison for masterminding the theft. Randall, who was the driver, serves little time. Authorities do not realize that Randall can see at wavelengths that allow him to see through walls. (8x09 Surekill)

May 15, 1986
The date on Scully's senior thesis, at the University of Maryland, "Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation." Page twelve of the manuscript mentions MJ-12. (4x07 Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man)

The thesis also addresses time travel, as suggested by its title. (4x19 Synchrony)

1986
Mulder graduates at the top of his 15-week class at the Quantico FBI academy, earning the nickname "Spooky." (5x01 Unusual Suspects.)

In many respects Mulder is a protege of William Patterson. Famous in the FBI for his skill as a criminologist, Patterson teaches that it is necessary to "become the monster" in order to understand the murderer. (3x14 Grotesque)

1987
John Doggett joins the New York City Police Department as a detective in the Fugative Unit. (Within) While serving on the NYPD, one of his cases involved a theft ring that uses children for breaking and entering. (8x12 Badlaa)

B.J. Morrow becomes a police officer, circa 1987. (2x12 Aubrey)

Scully's God-son is born to her friend Ellen. (1x04 The Jersey Devil)

In Pocatella, Idaho, Six year old Dean Tencate disappears from his bed. A note is found, written in his mother's handwriting, Kathy Lee Tencate is sentenced to twelve years in prison, although her son's body is never found. (7x10 Sein Und Zeit)

1988
The FBI begins a study that lasts seven years of devil worship and the occult, and their influence, if any, on American youth. (2x14 Die Hand Die Verleitz)

Beginning this year, seven X-Files cases are opened in which people become deranged with the belief that a person is really a monster masquerading as a human. (5x19 Folie a Duex)

Mulder is assigned to the violent crimes section, where he is generally considered to be an expert analyst.

Mulder is partnered with Jerry Lamana in the Violent Crimes unit. (1x06 Ghost in the Machine)

1988 or 89
Mulder is stationed in Washington DC. He initially offends his supervisor, Reggie Purdue, who later comes to greatly respect Mulder's intellect.

It's estimated that Mulder rents apartment 42 at 2639 Hegal Place, Alexandria, Virginia, and acquires the telephone number (202) 555-0110. (8x01 Within)

In Mulder's first case in Washington DC, he investigates John Irvin Barnett, Barnett is caught, but agent Steve Wohlenberg dies in a shoot-out. Barnett vows "I'll get you" to Mulder. (1x15 Young at Heart)

1989
Scully drifts away from the Catholic Church, making her last confession for six years. (3x11 Revelations)

Sometime in 1989 Paul Gerlach goes to work for the Chessman Mewmorial mental hospital in West Virginis as a security guard. (9x03 Dæmonicus)

May 1989
Mulder first meets Byers, Langley, and Frohike, who will become known as the Lone Gunmen during this period, they all have a connection to Susanne Modeski, who Mulder is pursuing. (5x01 Unusual Suspects)

September 16, 1989
John Irvin Barnett, is reported dead in Tashmoo Federal Correctional Facility, of cardiac arrest. His friend, Joe Crandell, sees a doctor operating on Barnett, and believes Barnett is not dead. Dr. Joseph Ridley believes he has learned how to reverse the effects of aging. (1x15 Young at Heart)

Late December 1989
Henry Weems is the only survivor of a commuter jet crash into Lake Michigan. (7x02 The Goldberg Variation)

Dana Scully's nephew is born. (4x03 Home)

1990s
Eddie Van Blundht, Sr., dies of heart disease and old age, but his son hides his body, using his unique shape changing abilities to impersonate his father to get the social security checks. (4x20 Small Potatoes)

1990
Reggie Purdue assigns Mulder to a serial murder case involving girls age 8 to 12, thinking Mulder can get inside the killer's head. A profile written by Mulder helps catch John Lee Roche, who had traveled the Northeast as a vacuum cleaner salesman. (4x08 Paper Hearts)

Scully's father, does not approve of her decision to enter the FBI, and never actually tells her prior to his death that he accepts her decision. (1x12 Beyond the Sea)

February 23, 1990
Scully and FBI Academy instructor Jack Willis celebrate their mutual birthday by going to what Scully later called a "dive" in Stratford. They are involved in a relationship that lasts for roughly a year. (1x14 Lazarus)

Scully has this affair with Willis on the rebound from Daniel Waterston, the married man she left in order to join the FBI. (7x17 all things)

Spring 1990
Scully graduates from the 15-week new agent course at the FBI Academy, and is presently assigned to teach at the Academy, because of her medical degree. An infamous instructor is Nancy Spiller, a forensics specialist known by the nickname The Iron Maiden. (1x06 Ghost in the Machine)

One student is Kelly Ryan, with whom Scully remains in contact, among other things telling her about Mulder. (2x23 Soft Light)

At an outdoor elementary school fair in Dexter, Oklahoma, Billy Underwood is kidnapped and later killed by the owner of a pony ride carousel. (8x06 Invocation)

Winter 1990-91
Jack Willis takes his girl friend, Dana Scully, to his parent's lake cabin. He teaches her ice fishing. (1x14 Lazarus)

November 17, 1990
Fox Mulder interviews former FBI agent Arthur Dales, who investigated Edward Skur in 1952, a victim of Xenotransplantation.

1990
Fox Mulder may have had a brief marriage circa 1990. (5x15 Travelers and 5x20 The End)

1991
On a west Texas highway, a human body is found with its skull smashed in and with a strange wound on its back. The body has formerly been occupied by a parasite. (8x05 Roadrunners)

Albert Tanner engineers his own death using his unique ability to generate a complete duplicate body. He is recorded as being killed in an automobile accident. (4x14 Leonard Betts)

Luther Boggs is convicted of murder, based on a criminal profile written by Mulder. Authorities believe several of his killings are done with Lukas Henry, but they cannot prove it. (1x12 Beyond the Sea)

The Church of the Red Museum moves from California to Delta Glen, Wisconsin, buys a "ranch" and turns the cattle into pets, because they are vegetarians. They refer to themselves as the second souls of the first bodies. (2x10 Red Museum)

Esther Nairn enters MIT. She develops a particular interest in automata theory. (5x11 Kill Switch)

USS Ardent, a Navy destroyer escort ship, is commissioned and launched. (2x19 Død Kalm)

February 23, 1991
Dana Scully gives an engraved wristwatch to Jack Willis for his 35th birthday. Shortly after, their relationship ends, although she continues to have fond feelings for him. (1x14 Lazarus)

December 1991
Mulder receives the assignment he has desired since joining the FBI, The X-Files, ending his partnership with Lamana. (4x07 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man)

1992
Mulder's mentor, William Patterson begins trailing a particularly gruesome serial killer in Washington DC. (3x14 Grotesque)

Wilson Pinker Rawls robs a wire office of $90,000. He is arrested and convicted but the money is never recovered. His girl friend, June Gerwich, finds the money a few weeks after he goes to prison. June has Pinker's son, Trevor. (6x17 Trevor)

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