River Monsters - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
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 Piranhas they could only be identified by their clothes.
Alligator Gar
In the deep South is a fish reputed to have committed a series of violent attacks on humans. This creature is said to be as vicious as a shark, big as a gator. Extreme angler Jeremy Wade heads to Texas to reveal the truth about the notorious Aligator Gar.
European Maneater
Wade travels to Germany where he meets victims of a beast that has been raising its snout above the surface of freshwaters in Europe for the past 700 years. We discover that the Wels catfish is an aggressive predator of man eating proportions.
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 encounters the legendary Arapaima.
Amazon Flesh Eaters
A man swallowed whole by a fish, a body eaten alive from within. Another penetrated in a most unnatural fashion, yet more with multiple stab wounds. Jeremy Wade is in pursuit of some of the Amazon's most notorious flesh eaters.
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? Expert angler Jeremy Wade investigates the deadly Bullshark.
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