Your Worst Animal Nightmares
Your Worst Animal Nightmares is a 2009 short-lived television show made by John Stainton broadcast by Animal Planet for The Discovery Channel. It is a docudrama with real events and stories of animal attack incidents re-enacted by actors, along with actual news footage of the events and some interviews. Most of the episodes are set in Australia, with one set in New Zealand.
Episodes
Your Worst Animal Nightmares focuses on stories of 12 incidents, involving victims and survivors of the worst Australian animal attacks with 7 survival stories and 5 of them being fatal. Two episodes are aired together. Of the twelve episodes so far, five have been about crocodiles, four about sharks, two about snakes and one about spiders. Out of the incidents that have showcased Australian animal attacks, only dingoes and jellyfish are excluded, despite being included in the intro.Episode 1 - Camp Terror: The Alicia Sorohan Story
Aired May 27, 2009Subject: A grandmother, Alicia Sorohan tries to defend her family from a crocodile attack.
Episode 2 - Blood Bath: The Nick Peterson Story
Aired May 27, 2009Subject: A group of teenagers get attacked by a great white shark. One of them, Nick Peterson is killed just as his father predicted in his nightmare.
Episode 3 - Bloody Monday: The Ken Crew story
Aired June 3, 2009Subject: Another shark attack on an Australian beach. Ken Crew is fatally injured, while Dirk Avery survives.
Episode 4 - Trial by Venom: The Gordon Wheatley Story
Aired June 3, 2009Subject: A spider bite by an Australian funnel-web spider on Gordon Wheatley.
Episode 5 - Death Roll: The [Val Plumwood] Story
Aired June 10, 2009Subject: Rowing on a river, Val Plumwood is attacked by a rogue crocodile in a canoe.
Episode 6 - Shark Bait: The Paul Morris story
Aired June 10, 2009Subject: Yet another shark attack in New Zealand on Paul Morris.
Episode 7 - Perfect Prey: The [Rodney Fox] story
Aired June 17, 2009Subject: The famous Rodney Fox bite, as a great white shark attacks during a spear fishing competition in the Neptune Islands.
Episode 8 - Horror Down Under: The Isabel Von Jordan Story
Aired June 17, 2009Subject: An attack by a saltwater crocodile in an outback water hole, Sandy Billabong in Kakadu National Park that the guide Glenn Robless leads a group of tourists, that leads to one of them, Isabel Von Jordan getting killed during night swimming with her sister, Valerie.
Episode 9 - Mortal Coil: The Daniel Blair Story
Aired June 24, 2009Subject: A surfer, Daniel Blair survives a snakebite on the isolated Moreton Island in Australia.
Episode 10 - Fatal Crossing: The Kerry Mcloughlin Story
Aired June 24, 2009Subject: Kerry Mcloughlin is decapitated in a fatal crocodile attack while crossing a river.