River Monsters

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 they could only be identified by their clothes. Tracking down survivors and eyewitnesses of Piranha attacks Jeremy Wade reveals why the Piranha fills our nightmares.

Searching for the goonch, a potentially huge, man-eating species of catfish found in the foothills of the Himalayas.

In the Deep South of the United States lives a river monster with the reputation of the Devil. Blamed for a series of violent attacks on humans, Extreme angler Jeremy Wade heads to Texas on its trail in an attempt to uncover the facts behind this animal's notoriety.

Jeremy Wade travels to Germany where he meets modern day victims of a freshwater beast that has been raising its snout above the surface of waterways in Europe regularly over the past 700 years. In Spain Wade discovers first hand that the Wels catfish is a living breathing aggressive predator growing to man-eating proportions capable of everything depicted in medieval records and more.

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.

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 these notorious killers to discover the facts, to determine if their crimes are real and their methods as gruesome as reported.