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Freak Encounters

Freak Encounters

Be careful who you work for. "Freak Encounters" lays that lesson on thick by staging run-ins with unexplained creatures. Ever see the Mothman while working for a highway crew, or how about coming into contact with the Bigfoot-like Genoskwa while filming a wildlife documentary? Each episode highlights one such encounter, with the catch being there is an unwitting participant who was "hired" by these companies just in time to see the freaky beings up close.
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Season 115 of 16 Episodes

  • Christian joins up with a wildlife research team investigating aerial attacks on animals in the forest.

  • Heather thinks she is helping investigate a series of mysterious car accidents on a remote stretch of road.

  • A pre-historic Neanderthal is captured while a team is studying bears in the forest.

  • Colby thinks he's taken a job working with a highway construction crew but when disaster strikes he thinks he is the next culprit for Mothman.

  • Russell thinks he's assisting a law firm cataloguing research documents but is lead into a fact-to-face encounter with an angry alien/human hybrid.

  • Jedidiya takes a job working on what she thinks is a documentary filming wild bobcats, then finds she is really working on a hunt to find the Genoskwa, cousin to Sasquatch.

  • A woman encounters a bloodthirsty monster lurking in a city's tunnel system.

  • Anthony discovers a 4-foot giant rat has taken over the house he thought he was helping demolish.

  • The search for a missing dog leads an animal-control team into an encounter with the Jersey Devil.

  • A monster spider attacks a team taking inventory of an abandoned warehouse.

  • A team of geologists searching for mineral deposits unleashes a deadly airborne virus.

  • Mya thinks she's helping a geological research team at a remote quarry; she discovers they've awakened a nest of monster-sized death worms, and they're on the attack.

  • An archaeological expedition deep in the woods disturbs a long-lost, evil tribe.

  • A lizard swamp man escapes from a mysterious crate at an inspection depot for trucks.

  • A team of archaeologists stumbles across a nest belonging to lizard aliens, and the eggs are about to hatch.
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Be careful who you work for. "Freak Encounters" lays that lesson on thick by staging run-ins with unexplained creatures. Ever see the Mothman while working for a highway crew, or how about coming into contact with the Bigfoot-like Genoskwa while filming a wildlife documentary? Each episode highlights one such encounter, with the catch being there is an unwitting participant who was "hired" by these companies just in time to see the freaky beings up close.

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