Underground Knowledge — A discussion group discussion

Excerpt from The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy:


“Before anyone passes judgment, may I remind you, we are in the Arctic.” –Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny) in Season 1, Episode 7 of The X-Files.


The first season of The X-Files television series features an episode called Ice, which is set in the Arctic. Delta Air Park, in Vancouver, Canada, was selected by location scouts as the venue for filming because its flat and tundra-like terrain resembles the Arctic environment. At least it does through the lens of a camera.

An impressive 10 million American viewers watched the episode when it first aired in November, 1993. The high-rating, well-reviewed episode has the series’ leads David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, investigating the mysterious deaths of research scientists in the Arctic. The pair soon discover evidence of extraterrestrial, parasitic organisms that take over their hosts and cause those infected to commit extremely violent acts.

A true story, of sorts, in Greenland was reportedly the inspiration for the episode’s writers Glen Morgan and James Wong who conjured up the plot in association with the series’ creator Chris Carter. Morgan said a Science News article about scientists in “Greenland who dug something 250,000 years old out of the ice” gave him the idea.

Of course, if anything like that TV episode actually occurred and alien origins were discovered beneath Greenland’s ice sheet, the powers that be are not saying.

Various similarly-themed conspiracy theories reference abandoned ET civilizations discovered in Greenland by the global elite. Warning: more puns ahead... However, all these theories have grown cold, or are completely frozen, due to a total lack of evidence.

Found-In-Ice Stories -- Novels and short stories where something is uncovered in the ice, preferably something ancient and high-tech. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

Ruby wrote: "I'm curious to see what is uncovered as more ice continues to melt. I find ice in its own right rather fascinating as well. Almost magical, with some mysterious properties [book:Ice: The Nature, th..."

I agree Ruby, the ice is fascinating. The fact that it is like a time capsule where it can preserve ancient and extent species in the extreme cold is of interest. And yes, if the ice around the world continues to melt it will be exciting to see what hidden secrets about the Earth's history is revealed (assuming all the discoveries are not classified!).

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg also concerns something alien found in the ice. I haven't read the novel, but the film, starring Julia Ormond and Gabriel Byrne, is very good.

Deception Point by Dan Brown is in this vein. I think it’s his best novel.