Page 12 - Other Facts

Part of the theme song to X-Files was created by accident!

The theme, "The X-Files", used more instrumental sections than most dramas. The theme song's famous whistle effect was inspired by the track "How Soon is Now" from The Smiths' 1985 album Meat Is Murder.

After attempting to craft the theme with different sound effects, Snow used a Proteus 2 rack-mount synth with an effect called "Whistling Joe".

After hearing this effect, Carter was "taken aback" and noted it is was "going to be good". According to the "Behind the Truth" segment on the first season DVD, Snow created the echo effect on the track by accident. He felt that after several revisions, something still was not right.

Carter walked out of the room and Snow put his hand and forearm on his keyboard in frustration. The keyboard had an echo effect setting that had accidentally been activated.

The resulting riff pleased Carter; Snow said, "this sound was in the keyboard. And that was it. "The second episode, "Deep Throat", marked Snow's debut as solo composer for an entire episode.

The production crew was determined to limit the music in the early episodes. The theme song appeared first in "Deep Throat".

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There are over 340,000 slaves in the world today! Where are they?

Thought slavery was abolished all around the world? Think again. A new CNN report has revealed that there are still slaves in the world today, in fact there is between 340,000 and 680,000, that is between 10-20% of the total population! These slaves are found in the very small Saharan nation, Mauritania. In 1981, Mauritania was the last country to abolish slavery.

Unfortunately, all activists in the country are arrested if they protest the practice of slavery, and the government denies that slavery exists within the country! Up until 2007, slavery wasn’t even a crime in Mauritania! Since then, only ONE slave owner has been arrested and penalized. Do these statistics seem a little fishy? You have to read the source to get the full story.

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Need a place for the end of the world? Someone built a shelter that’s 10,000 sqft and anyone can stay for free!

Bruce Beach began constructing Ark Two Shelter in the 1980’s. Since that time it has grown to over 10,000 square feet and is equipped with just about everything you could imagine. If a nuclear war were to occur, Ark Two can shelter over 500 people, is powered by redundant diesel generators, is almost impenetrable unless a nuclear bomb was dropped directly on it, has a chapel, and a decontamination room!

The fort was built during the height of the cold war, and was originally constructed using 42 school busses which had concrete poured over them. The fort has an entire radio communications center and is livable for enough time for the environment outside to be harmless after a nuclear bomb is dropped. The most amazing part of Beach’s fort is that he says anyone could stay free of charge!

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British subs have a secret letter meant to be opened only if there’s a nuclear attack on British soil!

Britain has four Trident submarines and at least one is deployed at all times in the Atlantic lurking about. The Trident submarines are Britain’s nuclear deterrent plan. The idea is simple: if something happens to the motherland, the Trident submarine will rain hell down on the country that caused the disruption. The submarines carry more destruction on board than the entire WWII campaign combined.

In case of a nuclear attack on England, each submarine has a letter that is only to be opened in such a situation. Two men are required to carry out the contents of the letter. The information is relayed back to Whitehall where the Prime Minister’s decision to fire would take place.

The whole thing is set up and working like a well-oiled machine, ready to protect the country at all times. The submarines are sleek, quiet, and undetected under the cover of the deep Atlantic Ocean.

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The last man executed by the electric chair incriminated himself after he’d been released from death row once!

Paul Warner Powell killed a 16-year-old girl because he was angry she had a black boyfriend. He then waited for her sister to come home and also attacked her, but she survived. Powell was arrested and convicted of capital murder. He was sentenced to death by electrocution, yet the case was eventually overturned because of insufficient evidence.

Powell, not being the sharpest tool in the shed by any means, was so proud of escaping death that he wrote a letter to the prosecutor and admitted to raping and killing the girl. After he admitted to the crime, the girl’s sister then testified against him. Fortunately, Powell gave so much detail and new evidence he was able to be tried again. He was eventually executed in 2010, the most recent man to be killed by an electric chair in the United States.

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