Mulder wasn't certain about that. The 'everyday person' tended to be extensively varied, though shared the common trait of either not wanting to know the truth or denied such things were possible. "My pursuit has always been one of truth," he said. "Granted, a lot of that involved differences of opinion with Government officials about what the truth was, and what would happen if it were known. But I'm also widely versed in many things supernatural, and even if here things seem to be quite different than what we perceived to be universal in our own worlds, it is at least something to start from. Proving the boogeyman exists is the first step to understanding it."