Monsters

An Idaho 17-year-old football player is struck with a sore throat, breathing difficulties/lung pain, confusion, kidney failure and even tackles his own mother from Group A streptococcus bacteria infecting his blood; an Illinois mother of three kids develops an itchy eye which leads to face numbness, loss of depth perception and blindness as the result of an Acanthamoeba keratitis infection; a dockmaster develops crippling pain in his hand from a Mycobacterium marinum infection along with pimples on his palm from barnacles growing in his hand.

A infant becomes totally paralyzed after accidental exposure to botulinum toxin; a Texas man develops severe pain in his scrotum for which doctors think is an ingrown hair, but it actually turns out to be botfly larvae which infected him while he urinated outdoors in Costa Rica; a Florida model/dentist is confounded by her mysterious weight gain, and over the course of a year she suffers continuing weight gain, blurry vision, crippling hand pain, and muscle weakness before it is discovered her breast implants are contaminated with Aspergillus fungi.

This episode looks back at three cases from past episodes: a teenage boy with a grill bristle in his intestines (A Deadly Swim); another teenage boy with leprosy (Help! My Son is a Leper); and a teenage girl whose lungs are afflicted with Cryptococcus gattii fungi (My Body Is Rotting).

A 2-year-old girl experiences severe pain, trouble breathing, and vomiting from a bark scorpion sting; a neuroscientist experiences multi-organ failure and nearly dies from a leptospirosis infection that he caught while swimming in Hawaii; a 20-year-old woman suffers from severe vomiting, extreme headaches, twitching and a strange crawling sensation in her head that turns out to be caused by Balamuthia mandrillaris and dies from it.

An 11-month-old boy experiences wheezing and vomiting after swallowing a button battery; a landscaper becomes infected with Paragonimus kellicotti; a female boxer gets a severe headache, a 105 fever, and impaired vision from cat scratch fever caused by Bartonella henselae.

A newlywed woman gets extreme headaches, memory problems, sinus pressure, and painful rashes, while her husband gets endless nosebleeds, breathing problems, and brain fog, both from Aspergillus; a councilman loses his spleen to visceral leishmaniasis; a 6-year-old gets a fever, red spots, a swollen mouth, loss of appetite, leg weakness, and breathing difficulties from rat bite fever caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis.

During a fishing vacation, a soccer coach goes into septic shock from Vibrio vulnificus necrotizing fasciitis after banging his ankle on a barnacle; a 7-year-old girl gets facial tics, bouts of anxiety, and turns suicidal after a streptococcal brain infection; a makeup artist gets severe stomach cramps and watery diarrhea from Giardia lamblia.

An athlete gets headaches, stomach pains, breathing difficulties, and a liver mass from Entamoeba histolytica from a trip to Nicaragua; a teenager develops a leg welt and then gets fatigue and red spots on his body over the course of several years. When the spots open, the doctors discover he has leprosy from coming into contact with an infected nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus). A woman suffers severe headaches, nausea, vomiting, and seizures from Exserohilum rostratum fungi invading her brain.

A 4-year-old boy literally drowns in his own mucus, being a victim of an outbreak of the Enterovirus D68 virus; a 7-year old scrapes his knee on a rock at the beach, but when his father puts a liquid bandage on it, it causes it to swell the size of an orange – then, his mother squeezes the wound and finds a sea snail (Littorina scutulata) inside; a college student experiences loss of appetite, fatigue, fever, jaundice, and repetitive nightmares that turn into a reality from getting infected with malaria caused by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite after returning from a trip to Ghana.

A war veteran suffers fatigue, high fevers, night sweats, strange rashes, bloody urine and jaundice from babesiosis; a 15-month-old baby girl suffers fever, dry mouth, vomiting and bloody diarrhea from E. coli O157:H7, whom she got from drinking raw milk; a biologist suffers extreme fatigue, back pains, anxiety, and vertigo from Aspergillus-contaminated breast implants

A Canadian science-lover and traveler suffers a painful lesion caused by botfly larvae; a video game programmer gets suffers from constant vomiting and coughing. When doctors find a large mass in his chest, it is discovered that he has histoplasmosis, which was contracted from inhaling bat droppings in a cave; a 15-year-old girl gets an extremely sore throat, a headache, nausea, and body pains from Lemierre's syndrome.

A contractor gets hit in the head with a tool, and later starts getting a pounding headache, dizziness, spotty vision, and nausea from having a nail punctured into his brain; a football player in college gets extreme headaches, a stuffy nose, and blurred vision from Aspergillus fungi entering his brain; in 2012, an 8-year-old boy suffers constant vomiting, fatigue, seizures, and eventually dies from amoebic meningitis after being infected with Naegleria fowleri.

A 23-year-old athlete/construction worker suffers multiple grand mal seizures and high fevers from eastern equine encephalitis; a hard-edged tough guy suffers severe stomach pains and loss of appetite from accidentally swallowing a grill bristle; a 17-year-old cheerleader who recently got her driver's license suffers a swollen, itchy eye and excruciating eye pains from Acanthamoeba keratitis she got from contact lenses.

A 6-year-old boy suffers a nasty cough, fever, and vomiting from valley fever; a newlywed husband becomes paralyzed from the waist down due to the West Nile virus; an international journalist suffers extreme stomach cramps, night sweats, chills, nausea, and fever from Entamoeba histolytica.

A teenage girl begins having strange mood swings from anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis; an elderly mother gets chills, hand numbness, wrist pain, and oozing blisters from Vibrio vulnificus she got from being pricked by a crab while making a stew; an athletic military veteran from the Afghan war competing in reality shows returns home from Fiji feeling hotness, a pinching sensation in her arms and toes, and hallucinations from rat lungworm she got from eating a slug in a reality show in the jungle

A Peace Corps volunteer traveling to Burkina Faso suddenly suffers from excruciating bouts of nausea and diarrhea from Entamoeba histolytica, and must find medical help before it is too late; a young woman almost suffocates due to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome she got from breathing dust while cleaning up contaminated with mouse feces; an 18-month-old boy gets infected with Baylisascaris procyonis worms which cause his brain to swell and have neurological damage, eye fluttering, and unresponsiveness.

A small-town boy's summer fun is cut short by a life-threatening Neisseria meningitidis infection. An oil rig worker and daredevil experiences sensitivity to light, muscle pain and horrifying hallucinations from Trichinella spiralis after eating bear meat. A former beauty queen suffers an extreme case of asthma for one year from a nasal packing contaminated with Aspergillus niger fungi.

A mother suffers with abdominal pain and nausea for four years until the true cause of her condition is discovered; a 2-year-old girl develops a mysterious lump on her neck.

A newly engaged Illinois man mysteriously collapses and suffers organ failure and gangrene from Legionnaire's disease. His fiance gazes in horror as he must choose between life and limb; a perky animal-loving eight-year-old girl survives rabies – a disease with a 99% fatality rate; a college freshmen almost goes blind from a bout of Acanthamoeba keratitis.

A teenage ballerina suffers from painful migraines and muscle failures; a young missionary's skin crawls when he uncovers an unholy revelation.

A 7-year-old girl contracts the bubonic plague and suffers a 107 fever, vomiting, painful buboes, and seizures; a yoga instructor finds out that what she thought was influenza is actually necrotizing fasciitis caused by Streptococcus intermedius and Peptostreptococcus; a state wrestling champion contracts angiostrongyliasis.

An ambitious screenwriter plans to use the information that a top producer in the Hollywood studio he's working for might be a werewolf to finally advance his career.

Sleazy late night radio host Roy Bright brings in an alluring guest who claims aliens gave her the solution to evil in the world — a monster that eats bad people who agree to it. He laughs it off, at first...

To pass the US citizenship test, secretive Greek lothario Hercules Valvalotus must take a physical, which he desperately wants to avoid, so he tries to seduce the female immigration officer to get a free pass.

Beat cops Mancini and Pankhurst tell their boss about the strange occurrences they've recently witnessed such as normal people being turned into surgically reassembled freaks. The inspector offers the truth, but it comes with a price.

Ben suggests to his newlywed son John and daughter-in-law Kate to spend their wedding night in the same hotel room where he spent his honeymoon. When a mysterious woman kidnaps John there, Ben reveals his secret to Kate.

Two old gentlemanly friends play a game of chess, when a sinister telepathic alien invader shaped like a giant tentacled eyeball arrives to eat their brains.

Deborah is a married career woman who just had her first baby. Instead of taking care of her child and home, she hires a nanny to take care of things while she works from home. Everything begins to go wrong, which the nanny says have occurred because Deborah has offended 'the household gods'.

Unhappy wife Lorna asks her depressed, workaholic husband Malcolm to play his clarinet for her like he did in their youth. The music causes severe pain in his abdomen and he's taken to surgery. What they find trapped in there is beyond bizarre.

A greedy wife tries to get her dying rich husband to give her the control over his buildings for the poor that she plans to sell. The husband's strange doctor tries to scare her straight.

A nice, young, southern faith healer uses the miraculous cleansing ability of the corpse of the most evil man in the world to run a small, popular, sin-extraction business. A female reporter and a cynical psycho-killer try to debunk him.

Four survivors of a nuclear blowout hide in their shelters, only connected by a walkie-talkie. While unbeknownst to them, the corpses of the dead are reanimated by something older than the radioactivity.

Jealous wheelchair-bound Edward takes his wife Victoria's long-lost alpha male ex, Hunk, who suddenly came back for her, out of the picture for good. Being scientists, the two use microchips that mimic the human mind to rebuild Hunk.

Young conspiracy theorist Kevin tries to convince his cool skeptic friend Tommy that an old-timey local barbershop is run by vampires in disguise.

Two normal, loving human parents try to keep their cute, cannibalistic, mutant infant son from devouring the neighbors. Meanwhile, a wannabe serial killer stalks the area.

During the Vietnam War, American soldiers Kenner and Torres, and a South Vietnamese lieutenant blast their way into an underground base and series of tunnels operated by the Viet Cong. They discover a horribly wounded guerrilla, who tells them that the VC tunneled through an old burial ground, and now the dead want vengeance.

A space mining corporation representative visits the company facility on an uninhabited planet run by a mutant slave to see why his output is behind schedule.

A spoiled American ends up in a South American jail for killing a kid with his car. He counts on his rich father's lawyer to get him out but a weird old political prisoner tells him he's in 'the bad cell' that no one ever leaves.

Ellen and May's father died some time ago, and May has started living in the family's broken-down, bug-infested cabin. While visiting, Ellen discovers that her sister has a handsome new lover named Peter and that May is due to give birth but has been enduring severe abdominal pains. Peter seduces Ellen, who has always been competitive with May (but has long denied it). Both the truth about Peter and his reason for seducing Ellen soon become clear.

Psychiatrist Murray Van Pelt attempts to use a man who can turn into an unstoppable monster whenever his repressed anger is let loose through hypnosis to get rid of his annoying wife.

Dr. Elizabeth Porter, who spent twelve years raising rats in an unhealthy environment in hopes of evolving their intelligence, faces the terrifying results of her experiment.

An astronomy student believes she has contacted an alien lifeform that is frighteningly close to earth.

Sent to investigate why a subway maintenance crew is paid so highly, a nosy city official gets far more than he bargained for.

After receiving a head injury in a car crash, Lewis, recovering in the hospital, finds that he can see a strange creature that he believes is the source of cancer.

Anya, a girl from a family of wolves, plans to marry Stanley, but her father objects as Stanley is a were-hyena.

Following a blow to the head, Alex's nightmares appear to be becoming reality. His girlfriend seeks a psychologist's help and he suggests for Alex to enter the dream world and face his subconsciousness.

Roy Barton lives a life of misery. Since his dad left, he has been made into a slave, serving his mother and sister hand and foot. Hope comes in the form of a creature who calls himself Swlabr.

A traveling salesman spends the night in a hotel next door to a beautiful woman and her husband, who hides a dark secret.

A woman agrees to be an alien test subject, only to lose her mind with loneliness.

A lothario and two women he cheated on are trapped in a museum basement with the ancient bog body of a man-hating druid priestess, who worshiped Ceridwen.

Ready to pay any price to stay young, a dying old man asks his archaeologist daughter to reveal the secret location of a forbidden Native American Fountain of Youth supposedly protected by an evil snake god.

In her basement, a married woman finds her late grandmother's exotic plant: the mythical mandrake root, an ingredient used in black magic to create the perfect lover that unfortunately feeds on human blood.

An elderly man in a nursing home, terrified of death, makes a deal with the Grim Reaper — if he gets more souls for Death, he gets to live a bit longer. Things complicate when he falls for a caring elderly nurse.

Greedy alien Arcturus tries to enslave a demon to grant his wishes, but instead gets a Chicago insurance agent named Arthur Gammet. Poor Arthur must fulfill the alien's wishes, even if it means getting a demon of his own.

While managing a remote inn near a wilderness swamp, an innkeeper makes ends meet by selling jars of items from the swamp. One particular item helps others to 'meet ends'. A curious private eye checks into the inn in search of a missing person, and meets Ann, who has brought her husband there to get him away from it all.

A man takes shelter at a farm for the evening, where he's surprised to be sharing a room with the farmer's pretty daughter.

A DMV employee begins an affair with his wife and father-in-law being the only thing holding him back. However, the seductress taps into her learned dark magic to make him all hers.

A teenage girl resurrects a recently deceased movie star that pledges his undying love for her. Her best friend enlists the formerly late actor's agent for help.

A newlywed couple book the basement suite of a fancy hotel which turns out to be the lair of a monstrously sized arachnid.

The art being displayed in a local exhibit may not be what it appears to be as the haunting figures hanging in the gallery resemble those of recent missing persons.

Two burgling brothers try to rob an old woman and the more ruthless of the two ends up killing her by accident after she bites him. Soon, the infected wound starts to turn into a face.

A cop asks his psychic girlfriend to help a beautiful amnesiac remember who she is. It turns out she's a woman who feeds on the life energies of her lovers in order to maintain eternal youth.

During a drought, a struggling treasure hunter for profit and his vain wife get more than they bargained for when he buys a cursed rainmaking idol from an old indigenous woman who bears ill will towards the whites.

In a haunted Victorian mansion, two couples play a game where each person tells part of a ghost story about the late former owner while a match burns. The story somehow comes true, and he rises from the grave to take their lives.

Professional dancer/actress Suzy St. Claire wants independence from her possessive dancing partner and boyfriend, so she poisons and dismembers him. However, his severed leg in a red tap shoe seeks revenge.

One stormy evening, Dr. Blackman tries to counsel successful professional comedians James and Robert Self, who also happen to be conjoined twins who won't stop bickering and trying to kill each other.

A slimy, good-for-nothing husband tries to get money from his mother-in-law, especially when he finds out that her fruit can produce a serum that can boost the human strength. He is prepared to do anything to get rich from it, but hasn't counted on just how protective a mother can be.

An orphan named Cindy receives a blessing in disguise when her abusive foster parents are taken over by friendly aliens whose ship has broken down.

A mysterious disease has killed most of the people in town and Amy's father believes that the hideous alien holed up in the library is responsible. But as Amy soon learns, Glim-Glim may be their only hope for survival.

Three construction workers find a hidden cave with treasure guarded by a troll.

A painter with strange visions who lives in an old cottage is visited by a warlock who used to live there. But his arrival wakes an ancient beast buried far below the cottage.

Miles goes to great lengths to keep his bed possessed by a Lovecraftian nightmare full. But an assertive female writer who seems to fancy him challenges his status quo.

Pool hustler Gabe challenges seductive but evil Natasha to a game. The kicker is she is a vampire and he is out for revenge against her.

A mysterious prehistoric capsule is found outside Reno. Four scientists study it, but a lizard-looking monster hatches from it. With a heavy snowstorm raging outside, they must fight for their survival.

Dale finds the private sanctuary of late horror icon Fulton Pierce. Dale can see Fulton's image in the old makeup case that was owned by the actor, and his life soon goes down a dark road.

In a right-wing South American dictatorship on the verge of leftist rebellion, mad scientist Dr. Willard Wingite keeps a rebel's cadaver alive to harvest its organs for his rich friends. But the undead rebel decides to get his organs back.

One night each year, the dead come back to life. A young zombie falls for his living female classmate but his hunger for human flesh and her prejudiced, zombie hunter father stand in the way of their happiness.

Can famous vampire hunter Ernest Chariot save his assistant Jack before his old enemy Charles Poole can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?

A greedy married man blackmails his eccentric beekeeper neighbor to profit off his tasty honey. He also falls for the beekeeper's mysterious, seductive vamp girlfriend.

Katherine is the star of Holly's House, a popular children's television show. Holly herself is a remote-controlled child-size robot. When Katherine is linked to the robot via wires and radio waves, she can make Holly walk and talk like a real person. Lenny, who plays 'Mike the Mailman', has gotten Katherine pregnant and asks her to marry him. But a stressed-out Katherine begins to think Holly is talking to her, and 'Holly' becomes jealous of Lenny and others on the show. Is Katherine going mad, or is something sinister going on?

When a doctor is unable to heal a man's sick daughter, the desperate father goes to a 'Feverman', a mysterious healer who literally fights the illness by summoning a physical manifestation of it from within the patient. The doctor, angry at the father's belief in superstition, tries to expose the Feverman as a fraud. In doing so, not only does he learn the truth, but there's also a price to pay for faith.