# 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 animal attacks with 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.

### Episode 1 - Camp Terror: The Alicia Sorohan Story

Aired May 27, 2009
Subject: A grandmother, Alicia Sorohan tries to defend her family from a crocodile attack.

### Episode 2 - Blood Bath: The Nick Peterson Story

Aired May 27, 2009
Subject: 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, 2009
Subject: 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, 2009
Subject: A spider bite by an Australian funnel-web spider on Gordon Wheatley.

### Episode 5 - Death Roll: The Val Plumwood Story

Aired June 10, 2009
Subject: 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, 2009
Subject: Yet another shark attack in New Zealand on Paul Morris.

### Episode 7 - Perfect Prey: The Rodney Fox story

Aired June 17, 2009
Subject: 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, 2009
Subject: An attack by a saltwater crocodile in an outback water hole in Kakadu National Park that the guide Glenn Robless leads a group of tourists, that one of them, Isabel Von Jordan got killed.

### Episode 9 - Mortal Coil: The Daniel Blair Story

Aired June 24, 2009
Subject: 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, 2009
Subject: Kerry Mcloughlin is decapitated in a fatal crocodile attack while crossing a river.

### Episode 11 - Deadly Strike: The Ryan Cole Story

Subject: An Australian adolescent, Ryan Cole gets bitten by an eastern brown snake, the world's second most venomous snake, next to a river and faints in the water.

### Episode 12 - Lethal Trap: The Ginger Meadows Story

Subject: Two women, Jane Burchett and Ginger Meadows are cornered next to a waterfall in the Prince Regent River, when Ginger tries to flee, she gets mutilated on the water by a saltwater crocodile.

## Reception

Common Sense Media rated the show 2 out of 5 stars.