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[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The FBI calls in its crack paranormal investigation team. The team consists of four plucky detectives and their dog. The dog is not forensically trained in any useful way, but is more of an emotional support animal for one of the team that struggles with addiction. It also talks to a limited extent.

The team investigates a haunting; revealing in a twist ending that it was the janitor in a costume all along.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gold! You could totally have 15 animated series based on that premise.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

A parasitic fungus that infects the brains of people and controls them to help propagate itself.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

After a third hollowed out body is found in a culvert, what first appears to be human organ harvesting by aliens, turns out to be ritualistic organ collection by a US concentration camp doctor.

CSM comes in and erases the site with extreme prejudice.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Double homicide of two celebrities that starred on a spooky fbi show where they had great on-screen chemistry but as the story unfolds it’s discovered that the actors didn’t like each other too much.

Murder scene is inside of a studio warehouse set up like a Pacific Northwest empty campground mobile home trailer but the bodies are found at a real Pacific Northwest campground that looks identical to.

The spooky part is the actors were shooting for the exact same script as was described above.

Edit: final scene ends with scully looking directly at the camera possibly breaking the 4th wall.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

points at the SCP wiki

That but with a different name.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Nah, call it SCP files. This was going to be my suggestion too.

I want te tv people to bring back the 'monster of the week' format, I really miss it.

[–] Sly2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Seriously tho, this format needs to be done.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Slug man from the sewer runs for president, wins.

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

He just seems like a guy I could have a beer with, y'know?

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A man finds himself alternating between the past and the present.

He lives a Monday in 2026, then wakes up at some random time in the past. He is in that day for 24 hours, then comes back to Tuesday, 2026.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

They're tasked to investigate the mass disappearance of people of colour, but turn out in the end it's just ICE agents.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

A lizard electrical engineer sets up a successful consulting firm convincing all appliance manufacturers worldwide to make progressively shorter power cords.

Then, he moves onto airplane seating.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The duo arrive in Oregon again. They've been sent because of a series of events revolving around a pair of fraternal twins, a teenage boy and girl, who, according to locals, 'just went crazy.' They meet a pair of DEA agents named Scullder and Mully who have been working on an adjacent case. The town is the home of a mirror factory, and loaded with art made from mirrors. Teens in the town seem to display odd behaviour, almost psychic, but only after partying. Scully immediately asks Milder if this is demons from mirror dimensions, and Mulder decides on no evidence that it's something mundane.

As the investigation progresses, the twins turn out to have been on a new drug, developed by a scientist who once worked as an offshoot of MK Ultra. He has developed a pair of chirally matched designer drugs that produce shared sensation and mental connection through the 'twin connection,' originally intended to let American interrogators connect and 'download' the memories of spies and communists. Now, he just wants to make money and continue his other research. The twins were an unfortunate accident, overloading their 'twin connection' and scrambling their identities and bodily systems until they were melded into one mind that couldn't control two physically different bodies, causing their 'madness,' 'seizures,' and death.

[–] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I would watch the shit out of this.