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River Monsters
River Monsters

River Monsters

—Jeremy Wade is not a fisherman; he's an "extreme angler" in search of the biggest and most dangerous freshwater fish, the kind with a taste for human flesh. This action-adventure series also features Wade illustrating how these river monsters are constructed to kill.
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Season 16 of 7 Episodes

  • Jeremy tracks down eyewitnesses and survivors of piranha attacks, uncovering the fear behind the man-eater.

  • In the deep South lives a fish reputed to have committed a series of violent attacks on humans, said to be as vicious as a shark and as big as a gator; extreme angler Jeremy Wade heads to Texas to reveal the truth about the alligator gar.

  • Wade travels to Germany, where he meets victims of a beast seen raising its snout above the surface of freshwaters in Europe for the past 700 years; discovering the Wels catfish, an aggressive predator of man-eating proportions.

  • Jeremy Wade encounters the Amazon's legendary arapaima, one of the largest freshwater fishes in the world.

  • Jeremy Wade searches for the Amazon's notorious flesh eaters; a man is swallowed whole by a fish.

  • Jeremy investigates the bull shark.

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18 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Mekong Mutilator
    Africa's Deadliest
    Malaysian Lake Monster
    Ice Cold Killer
    Volcanic Island Terror
    Coral Reef Killer
    Killers From the Abyss
    Return of the Killer Catfish
    Killers From the Abyss
    Alaska's Cold Water Killer
  • Mekong Mutilator

    Jeremy Wade is lured to the shores of the Mekong River in Cambodia to search for a monstrous fish that has mauled, blinded, killed and most recently sliced clean through a young man's testicle.
    Upcoming
  • Africa's Deadliest

    Jeremy Wade returns to the Okavango Delta to re-investigate a predatory carnivore that may have mauled over 100 victims of a capsized boat; to discover the truth, Jeremy offers himself up as live bait.
    Upcoming
  • Malaysian Lake Monster

    After two men vanish from a remote lake in Malaysia, Jeremy sets out to find the possible culprit; a trail of evidence leads Jeremy into an ancient rainforest, where an old adversary lies in wait.
    Upcoming
  • Ice Cold Killer

    Traveling from London to Greenland and on to Norway, Wade follows the trail of an unknown sea monster; fishing through ice to extreme depths, he attempts to reel in this monster before the full fury of an Arctic storm hits.
    Upcoming
  • Volcanic Island Terror

    On a volcanic island in the Pacific, terror grips a fishing community when something in the water leaves a trail of bloody victims in its wake; the only clues they have to the attacker's identity are the large puncture wounds it left behind.
    Upcoming
  • Coral Reef Killer

    On the tropical island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, a tourist snorkeler and several local fishermen have been killed and injured by a mysterious sea creature that impales its victims; Wade travels to the scene to investigate.
    Upcoming
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Jeremy Wade is not a fisherman; he's an "extreme angler" in search of the biggest and most dangerous freshwater fish, the kind with a taste for human flesh. This action-adventure series also features Wade illustrating how these river monsters are constructed to kill.

Starring

Jeremy Wade, Vic Hislop, David Buckmeier, Mark Spitzer, Tim Mousseau, Daniel Göz

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