The X-Files episode “Home” was so twisted, dark, and disturbing that it only aired on Fox once, was banned from re-runs on the network, and disappeared until the show re-aired on cable channel FX

Synopsis:

A group of young kids find a dead baby, that has been buried in a field. The baby is very disfigured. Later, an autopsy confirms the baby was buried alive and born with the disfigurement due to inbreeding.

Mulder and Scully go to Home, PA – where the baby was found – and do some inquiring and find the 5 Peacock brothers. The brothers are also highly disfigured. And the towns sheriff tell the FBI that the brothers live alone in a house that has no running water or electricity.

The lab tests confirm the dead baby is related to the Peacocks, so the Mulder and Scully sneak into the brothers house because they believe the brothers have kidnapped a woman and are keeping her hostage and raping her.

While searching the house, they find a bedroom and under the bed is a roll out frame, when they pull it out they find a woman, who has no arms or legs, strapped down to the frame. She is Mrs. Peacock, the boys mother.

It’s then revealed the sons and their quadruple amputee mother have been inbreeding and producing highly disfigured offspring for years – voluntarily.

Some other stuff happens – the boys kill some people, and Mulder and Scully kill some of the sons.

But the episode ends with the eldest son taking his mother to the car and escaping, and the mother telling the son how they’ll start a new family elsewhere.