Synopsis: Mulder and Scully are dispatched to aid in hostage negotiation when a disgruntled foreman takes his employer hostage within the Money Pit, a bizarre and as-yet fully unexplored hole on Oak Island, Nova Scotia.
Notes: This story was originally printed in The X-Files Magazine #1, Winter 1996.
Synopsis: When a businessman visits an estate auction and walks away with an ancient sword then returns to the office to brutally slay nine of his fellow co-workers, Mulder thinks the man might have accidentally purchased the Sword of Minamoto: a blade tainted with the blood and souls of demons.
Notes: This story was originally printed in The X-Files Magazine #2, Summer 1996.