The human bat (also called the Bat Thing) was either a human that had evolved into a bat-like creature, or vice versa. Described as "neither man nor animal", it was active only at night and hung upside down from rafters during the day, leaving distinctive claw marks in the wood.

The episode, inspired by the "back-to-basics stand alones […] of the earlier seasons", features a human-bat hybrid as the main villain; this character was inspired by the 1970s comic book villain, Man-Bat, one of the arch-nemeses of Batman. [4]

Nov 19, 2000 · Patience: Directed by Chris Carter. With Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Bradford English, Gene Dynarski. Scully isn't exactly warm to Doggett on their first X-File together in which they investigate a human bat.

"Patience" is the third episode of the eighth season of The X-Files. Investigating his first X-File case, Doggett travels with Scully to Idaho where a married couple were brutally murdered by a man-sized bat.

Aug 21, 2014 · Now add the fact that you've got a giant, humanoid bat creature who isn't exactly keeping the streets of Gotham safe, but instead killing off hunters who once attempted to bag it... yeah. That...

Scully isn't exactly warm to Doggett on their first X-File together in which they investigate a human bat. The episode opens on a dark and windy night. A tall gaunt man drives up to a house just as a thunder storm starts to blow. He gets out of the car, heads inside, and strides slowly up a …

Monster of the Week: A very pissed-off human bat. Revenge by Proxy: The human bat was attacked by a hunter in 1956 and it starts killing everyone who has that hunter's scent no matter how tenuous the link between them.

Scully isn't exactly warm to Doggett on their first X-File together in which they investigate a human bat.

"Hunters kill Human Bat!" Three men are proudly holding a dead BAT THING creature between them as they might hold a deer.) SCULLY : (reading) "The creature was taken to the county coroner who confirmed it was neither man nor animal."

Nov 19, 2000 · Enzymes found in the saliva from the bites suggest that a bat killed the couple. Doggett produces a Montana newspaper headline from 1956 about a human bat who was shot by hunters after it killed several people. The next day, the agents investigate the McKesson murder.