In one of the series’ classic episodes, Mulder travels to the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico and finds an extraterrestrial transmission there in the jungle. Here the LSCR transports us to the Olympic National Forest in Washington state.įor the first time in the series, but not the last, the LSCR stands in for a location not even on mainland America. One of the weirder cases Mulder and Scully have ever fallen into, they are terrorized by prehistoric, neon green mites of some kind. Werewolves! In the course of their investigation of attacks by a wolf-like creature, Mulder and Scully attend a Native American funeral rite in Montana. Despite Mulder using his old favorite example of missing time, Scully still refuses to believe. In this episode, the agents investigate an alien attack in rural Reagan, Tennessee, represented by the pine trees of the LSCR. “Mulder, if this is about watches again…” Scully gets suspicious in E.B.E. Now a gravel pit (which will become an especially favorite location for the series) in the forest takes us to Townsend, Wisconsin, where an unfortunate police officer (and later Mulder) have a run-in with a downed UFO.
This time the location stands out as a forest outside of Atlantic City where police officers try to gun down a hirsute beast woman. Standing in for the Collum National Forest in Oregon, the woods saw the abduction of Billy Miles and the introduction of Scully to the world of the X-Files. The LSCR makes an appearance in the very first episode, and is in fact the very first location used in the entire series. (For this list we used the terrific location guide X Marks the Spot as relayed here.)Ĭheck out all of the places the LSCR has “been.” In the meantime, let’s look back at some of the forest’s greatest hits, and unravel the truth behind the conspiracy of the forest that was everywhere.
And we viewers did.Īlthough the resurrected The X-Files recently returned to Vancouver to shoot more episodes, there is no word as to whether the Seymour Forest will be returning along with series stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny.
Throughout the first five seasons the show wanted us to believe that the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve (LSCR, previously known as the Seymour Demonstration Forest) in Northern Vancouver was actually everywhere from Puerto Rico to Siberia. But the actors and production crew rarely ever left Vancouver’s rainy climes.Īmong all of the locations the show used to portray the agents’ adventures, there is one forest that worked overtime. During the first five seasons of their globetrotting investigations into the paranormal, (the production moved to LA as of season six), Agents Mulder and Scully racked up a fictional travel bill that must have surpassed the national debt at some point. Many television and film crews have used the various landscapes of Vancouver, Canada as a cheaper stand-in for far-flung locales, and The X-Files was no exception. The truth is out there… probably somewhere in Vancouver.