# S1E18 - Miracle Man; or, Why My Mom Hates Leroy Jenkins

An episode of [Gen X-Files: a Rewatch Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1895719549), 25 Aug 2026, 1 h 57 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/10d929ad8/podcast/play/124711760/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-25%2Fa3440ea8-c51b-892c-abbf-8bd245a8c993.mp3

The X-Files Season 1, Episode 18: Miracle Man. This week, Dash & Melz (long-time fans and couple) and Angel (first-time watcher and Dash’s mom) head to Tennessee for teenage faith healers, suspicious deaths, a Mulder mic-drop moment, and the discovery that Scully learned some strange stuff in med school. Samuel Hartley has been performing miracles since he was a kid, but when people start dying and Samuel tells Mulder things about Samantha he should not know, things get weird fast. Along the way, a courtroom fills with insects, Sheriff Daniels gets repeatedly lip-cucked, Samuel looks like Justin Bieber became a youth pastor, and we get into chicken-tender theology, air-vent potato chunks, hideous religion-themed '90s computer software, and wonder if we have listeners in Heaven. Angel’s memory of her grandmother being taken to a real faith healer sends us down a rabbit hole that ends with the incredible discovery: It was Leroy Jenkins the whole time. Miracle Man is extremely goofy, surprisingly sad, and somehow both make the other better. Never seen The X-Files? You’re good. Angel is watching for the first time. If you’re reading this, you’re a friend. Questions, suggestions, hypnoregressions? GenXFilesPod@gmail.com

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