# Lost Media Found. A Real Life X File is Solved **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [December 6, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-media-found-a-real-life-x-file-is-solved/994198 "2023-12-06T21:04:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-media-found-a-real-life-x-file-is-solved/994198/1 "2023-12-06T21:04:52Z")
This was kind of a amazing. This link is a Twitter thread (No I am not calling it X) of a person who heard a background song in an X Files episode and liked it enough to try and find it. Her attempts only came up with other people looking for the same song but failing (some as far back as 1998 when it first aired). However, the thread went viral and through the magic of crowd sourcing not only was the song eventually identified, the creators of the song were contacted, realized the song had never been released but had fans and are going to release it online. The clincher is today when this all got finalized is the 25th anniversary of the episode’s original airing. It’s pretty amazing and reminds me of when the Dope tried to ID the actress in the Steppin’ Out video (although my memory is that was never fully confirmed) There is the Twitter thread: > Here’s the song: > ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-media-found-a-real-life-x-file-is-solved/994198/2 "2023-12-06T21:10:03Z")
Is that the one with Michael McKean playing an Area 51-type, who ends up body swapping with Mulder? My memory is hazy so I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-media-found-a-real-life-x-file-is-solved/994198/3 "2023-12-06T21:11:31Z")
Another lost media crowdsourcing success story: > **[Canadian cartoon mystery finally solved after 6 years, thanks to the internet...](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6574263)** > > The origin of a mysterious Canadian cartoon character in the back of a family photo from the early 1990s has been solved thanks to the internet and two brothers in Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-media-found-a-real-life-x-file-is-solved/994198/4 "2023-12-06T23:46:02Z")
This is how somebody will find the alternate ending of _Big_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-media-found-a-real-life-x-file-is-solved/994198/5 "2023-12-07T00:07:02Z")
“waited for what seems like a light-year”? Now _that_ is jarring.