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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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6 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    European Maneater
    Amazon Flesh Eaters
    Piranha
    Freshwater Shark
    Amazon Assassins
    Congo Killer
  • European Maneater

    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.
    Upcoming
  • Amazon Flesh Eaters

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

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

    Jeremy investigates the bull shark.
    Upcoming
  • Amazon Assassins

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

    Jeremy explores the legends and mystery surrounding the Congo River in Central Africa.
    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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