River Monsters
Premieres: Southeast Asia on Feb 16 at 10:00 pm; North Asia on Jan 13 at 9:00 pm
EXTREME ANGLER JEREMY WADE GOES IN SEARCH OF THE WORLD'S MOST ELUSIVE RIVER MONSTERS
- Find out if the horror stories about these freshwater creatures are true, or if they are just the stuff of legends -
Did a large catfish attack a teenager in a German lake? Did a school of piranha devour a busload of passengers that crashed in an Amazonian river? Over the ages, yarns have been spun that fish have actually preyed on man. These legends have found their way into literature, tales, folklore and now television. In the new seven-part series RIVER MONSTERS, Jeremy Wade travels across the world to solve these freshwater mysteries, debunk myths, and track down harrowing tales. Follow Jeremy in his face-to-face encounters with mysterious flesh-eating predators, gargantuan fish and other RIVER MONSTERS.
Biologist and extreme angler Jeremy Wade has made his life's passion into a career searching for a variety of aquatic vertebrae while navigating the globe's waterways. In RIVER MONSTERS, Jeremy will come face-to-face with fear as he tries to understand these mysterious predators with a taste for human flesh, putting his life on the line to find truly monster-sized fish while globetrotting through Germany, Australia, Brazil and the United States.
Join Jeremy on his weekly quests as he goes in search of fascinating creatures such as piranha, alligator gar, Wels catfish, bullshark, candiru and arapaima - all deadly creatures shrouded in mystery. Are these freshwater horrors figments of overactive imaginations, or is there indeed some truth to their man-eating feeding habits? In his quest to uncover the truth behind each mystery, Jeremy sometimes comes dangerously close to becoming part of the story!
RIVER MONSTERS episode descriptions:
Alligator Gar
In the Deep South resides is a river monster with the reputation of a devil. Blamed for a series of violent attacks on humans, this creature is said to be as vicious as a shark and as big as an alligator. The authorities said it should be annihilated, but not all are so quick to condemn it. Jeremy heads to Texas on its trail in an attempt to uncover the facts behind this animal's notoriety. Helped by local expertise and with his own wits honed sharp, he finds new ways to reveal the truth about the monster Alligator Gar.
European Maneater
Reports of an attack on a swimmer in a lake close to Berlin is the starting point for an intense and shocking investigation. Jeremy travels to Germany where he meets modern-day victims of a beast that has been raising its snout above the surface of freshwaters in Europe regularly over the past 700 years. Investigations travel to Spain where Jeremy discovers firsthand that the Wels catfish is a living, breathing aggressive predator growing to man-eating proportions capable of everything depicted in medieval records and more.
Piranha
In 1976, a packed coach crashed into the Amazon killing 39 people. By the time the bodies were pulled out by rescuers some had been so viciously mutilated by Piranha they could only be identified by their clothes. Tracking down survivors and eyewitnesses of Piranha attacks, Jeremy reveals why the Piranha fills our nightmares.
Killer Catfish
Two years ago, on the treacherous Kali River, Northern India, Jeremy unearthed the mother of all fisherman's tales and the ultimate freshwater horror: a super-sized freshwater fish turned man-eater. Jeremy takes on the biggest, toughest challenge he has ever faced as he heads back to the Himalayas to and track down the monstrous beast.
Amazon Assassins
In the darkest depths of the Amazon lurks a dinosaur. Legends tell of an evil spirit inhabiting an enormous fish. Taller than a man, it is covered in scales and crushes its prey with a tongue made of bone. Jeremy Wade has encountered this creature once before and he came out second best. He's taking no chances in the rematch.
Amazon Flesheaters
A man swallowed whole by a fish. A body eaten alive from within. Another penetrated in a most unnatural fashion, and yet more with multiple stab wounds. Jeremy is in pursuit of these notorious killers to discover the facts - to determine if their crimes are real and their methods as gruesome as reported.
Freshwater Shark
No fish inspires the same terror as the shark, a creature with an insatiable hunger for brutal violence. But at least these killers are confined to the oceans. Or are they? Jeremy investigates whether it is possible for sharks to live in freshwater, and if so just how far inland these vicious predators will bring their reign of terror.
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