River Monsters

In 1976, a packed coach crashed into the Amazon, killing 39 people. When the bodies were pulled out, some had been so viciously mutilated by piranhas that they could only be identified by their clothes. Extreme angler Jeremy Wade investigates the piranha.

In the deep south there 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 and big as a gator. Jeremy Wade heads to Texas to reveal the truth about the Alligator Gar.

Jeremy travels to Germany where he meets victims of a beast that has been raising its snout above the surface of fresh waters in Europe for the past 700 years. We discover that the Wels catfish is an aggressive predator of man-eating proportions.

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. This is the legendary Arapaima.

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 the Amazon's most notorious flesh eaters.

No fish inspires the same terror as the shark. A creature with an insatiable hunger for brutal violence, at least these killers are confined to the oceans. Or are they? Expert angler Jeremy Wade investigates the deadly bull shark.