In the 1998 ‘The X Files: Fight The Future‘, a deadly HANTAVIRUS outbreak is used as a cover to hide the existence of extraterrestrial organisms and evidence of alien colonization…
There’s a lot of these posts regarding the hantavirus as this situation develops now, with people around the world becoming nervous because of comparisons to the beginning of COVID-19. Endless stories are circulating about more than 40 people being released from the cruise ship plagued with the deadly Andes version of the hantavirus, and anxiety online is ramping big time (for clicks many times of course)…
But another strange thing is also happening on social media: Old clips of the X-Files movie involving the hantavirus are suddenly resurfacing again, with people claiming predictive programming or some kind of prophetic vision from the famed conspiracy series of the 20th century.
Let’s first say this… the X-Files hantavirus connection is weird. …the Cigarette Smoking Man reveals that a Texas hantavirus outbreak was supposedly a cover for human alien hybrid programs designed to survive an impending colonization event. A plague to end all plagues… a reset of society..
There is little doubt that scenes like this would go viral again..
But let’s think back for a moment. Hantavirus was already in the news back in 1998 because deaths connected to the virus were occurring that year as well. For example, the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer on April 12th, 1998 discussed Pennsylvania’s first hantavirus death that year.
It was a fearful time as scientists were still trying to understand the disease, and coupled with the popularity of The Stand, viruses were heavily on people’s minds.
For those who may not have been around back then, or are too young to remember, hantavirus is not something new on this planet. Back in the 1990s it was widely discussed and deeply feared. This was before social media and before the internet connected everyone instantly the way it does now, but people were absolutely talking about it.
As a matter of fact, by May 29th, 1994, scientists working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were already trying to unlock the secrets of the disease after outbreaks killed dozens of people, including victims in Nevada.
Over the years there have been additional scattered cases and isolated fears tied to hantavirus outbreaks, but this newest “plague ship” situation feels more unsettling to many people because it involves the Andes strain… and because the world itself is weary from pandemics.
That’s probably the real story here.
People are exhausted, hyperaware, and traumatized by what happened during COVID.
So now when a cruise ship quarantine appears in headlines alongside words like “deadly virus,” “human transmission,” and “Andes strain,” social media instantly transforms into a mixture of fear, nostalgia, conspiracy theories, old X-Files clips, and memories of a very different era when mysterious viruses already felt terrifying enough.
