Monsters Inside Me
Monsters Inside Me

Monsters Inside Me

2009 8 Seasons 76 Episodes ⭐ 8.2 Documentary

Part horror movie, part medical detective story, find out what happens when people fall prey to an infection from a parasite, those nasty microscopic creatures found in water, soil and even in the air. Victims' stories are retold, including how doctors and scientists attempt to unravel each case before it's too late. Biologist Dan Riskin, assisted by doctors and experts who witnessed each case, leads the scientific discussion about each parasite.

Part horror movie, part medical detective story, find out what happens when people fall prey to an infection from a parasite, those nasty microscopic creatures found in water, soil and even in the air. Victims' stories are retold, including how doctors and scientists attempt to unravel each case before it's too late. Biologist Dan Riskin, assisted by doctors and experts who witnessed each case, leads the scientific discussion about each parasite.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Sleeper Cells

These killers lie dormant, waiting for the right time to strike. Eleven-month-old Garrett Richardson ingests the eggs of

EP 2

Outbreak

Across the United States, doctors and scientists are fighting a war against some of nature's deadliest creatures — par

EP 3

Sex Maniacs

Perfecting the art of reproduction have made parasites the most successful life form on the planet. There are some who a

EP 4

Masters of Disguise

Parasites are ruthless, single-minded and above all devious. To become the most prolific life forms in the world takes a

EP 5

Hijackers

Nature is a war zone and parasites are the ultimate fighters. They are hungry, they are ruthless and they don't play by

EP 6

Living with the Enemy

In Virginia a young woman is attacked by an invincible brain-eating monster that threatens to take her life. A Midwester

EP 1

Suicide Attackers

A fit and active dance instructor is suddenly stopped in her tracks by unbearable abdominal pain and vomiting, and a mys

EP 2

Feeding Frenzy

A schoolteacher deals with an amoeba that eats at his liver and causes him high fever, abdominal pain, sweating, and chi

EP 3

Cold Blooded Killers

A nine-year-old hockey player comes down with encephalitis from the Acanthamoeba, which causes him to lose his concentra

EP 4

Lurkers

The Crytosporidium parasite infects a little girl, causing her severe vomiting and diarrhea. A microscopic amoeba kills

EP 5

Flesh Eaters

A cat scratch leads to a horrifying result for a veterinary volunteer; strange liquid oozes from a college student's arm

EP 6

Stowaways

Stories of parasites that reside inside their traveling hosts; an Iraq war veteran pulls a foot-long worm from his body.

EP 7

Breeders

Daily stomach cramps reveal some of the most common parasites in nature.

EP 8

Double Agents

A man tries hookworms to cure his allergies; a bloodsuckers gets into a writer's nose.

EP 9

Homegrown Enemies

A middle-aged man who has been caring for his ailing mother gets Babesiosis from walking barefoot to the mailbox. Since

EP 10

Shape Shifters

A seven-year-old girl suffers from seizures from a pork tapeworm after being adopted at the age of three from Nepal. A f

EP 1

My Child Will Only Eat Cat Food

A toddler starts worrying her parents when she loses her appetite for the foods she normally eats, but starts craving sa

EP 2

Something's Eating My Son Inside Out

A teenage boy starts complaining of nasal pain and fever after a swim in the lake. It eventually turns out that he has b

EP 3

My Face Eating Parasite

A man suddenly grows a pimple that seems minor at first, but eventually oozes and makes his face swollen. A young man th

EP 4

My Daughter Is Losing Her Mind

A fairly young part-time student starts feeling a throbbing headache, which causes her to have the flu and then meningit

EP 5

Something's Eating My Dreams

A teenage girl has been enjoying her life of gymnastics and nature, when she suddenly receives a scratch on her hand. Th

EP 6

A Monster's Taking My Baby

A middle school teacher has been having a healthy pregnancy until suddenly, she starts experiencing abdominal cramps and

EP 7

I Coughed Up Worms!

A young mother expecting her second child suddenly comes down with a stuffy nose and itchy throat. They appear to be typ

EP 8

My Brain Has Been Hijacked

A 1-year old boy who survived a premature birth starts resisting food, suffering a fever, and coughing up blood. After b

EP 9

You Left What Inside Me?

A little girl's health begins to deteriorate when she suddenly comes down with a fever. She then develops reddish spots

EP 10

Killer in My Neck

A young aspiring artist suddenly comes down with flu-like symptoms and a swollen face. To make matters worse, his eyes a

EP 1

The Flesh-Eating Monster

A 7-year-old girl contracts the bubonic plague and suffers a 107 fever, vomiting, painful buboes, and seizures; a yoga i

EP 2

There's a Worm in My Eye

A teenage ballerina suffers from painful migraines and muscle failures; a young missionary's skin crawls when he uncover

EP 3

Choosing Between Life and Limb

A newly engaged Illinois man mysteriously collapses and suffers organ failure and gangrene from Legionnaire's disease. H

EP 4

It Came From a Tick...

A mother suffers with abdominal pain and nausea for four years until the true cause of her condition is discovered; a 2-

EP 5

My Husband is Hallucinating

A small-town boy's summer fun is cut short by a life-threatening Neisseria meningitidis infection. An oil rig worker and

EP 6

Dying Abroad

A Peace Corps volunteer traveling to Burkina Faso suddenly suffers from excruciating bouts of nausea and diarrhea from E

EP 7

Maggots Are Eating Me Alive

A teenager caught in the 2011 Joplin tornado in Missouri is recovering in the hospital when he suddenly suffers from a l

EP 8

A Deadly Swim

A teenage boy develops stomach pains, starts vomiting blood and fecal matter, and has nausea from accidentally swallowin

EP 9

My Christmas from Hell

A special episode with three cases that happened during the holidays – A newlywed woman gets a constant pain in her sc

EP 10

I Almost Killed My Baby

A newborn baby develops hydrocephalus from a parasitic disease called toxoplasmosis, which was contracted from his mothe

EP 1

My Daughter's Going Crazy

A teenage girl begins having strange mood swings from anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis; an elderly mother gets chills, ha

EP 2

West Nile Attack!

A 6-year-old boy suffers a nasty cough, fever, and vomiting from valley fever; a newlywed husband becomes paralyzed from

EP 3

A Menace in My Own Backyard

A 23-year-old athlete/construction worker suffers multiple grand mal seizures and high fevers from eastern equine enceph

EP 4

The Killer in the Lake

A contractor gets hit in the head with a tool, and later starts getting a pounding headache, dizziness, spotty vision, a

EP 5

There's a Maggot Crawling in My What?

A Canadian science-lover and traveler suffers a painful lesion caused by botfly larvae; a video game programmer gets suf

EP 6

Vampire Parasites Attack

A war veteran suffers fatigue, high fevers, night sweats, strange rashes, bloody urine and jaundice from babesiosis; a 1

EP 7

A Holiday in the Hospital

The second episode of the series to be Christmas-themed – a saleswoman gets a stabbing headaches and a constant burnin

EP 8

My Body Is Rotting

A teenager gets coughing, shoulder pains, dizziness, and nausea from Cryptococcus gattii fungi invading her lungs; a sal

EP 9

The Brain Colonizer

A Canadian 13-month-old toddler gets breathing difficulties and mild vomiting from accidentally swallowing a button batt

EP 10

I Smell Like Death

A 29-year-old man gets tooth pain and almost dies of necrotizing fasciitis caused by the bacteria Streptococcus intermed

EP 1

There's Something Living In My Knee

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

EP 2

Help! My Son is a Leper

An athlete gets headaches, stomach pains, breathing difficulties, and a liver mass from Entamoeba histolytica from a tri

EP 3

My Vacation From Hell

During a fishing vacation, a soccer coach goes into septic shock from Vibrio vulnificus necrotizing fasciitis after bang

EP 4

There's a Fungus in My What!?!

A newlywed woman gets extreme headaches, memory problems, sinus pressure, and painful rashes, while her husband gets end

EP 5

Worms Are Eating My Lungs

An 11-month-old boy experiences wheezing and vomiting after swallowing a button battery; a landscaper becomes infected w

EP 6

An Amoeba is Eating My Brain

A 2-year-old girl experiences severe pain, trouble breathing, and vomiting from a bark scorpion sting; a neuroscientist

EP 7

The Eyeball Eater

A young college student contracts Acanthamoeba keratitis from sleeping in her contact lenses; an infant becomes temporar

EP 8

The Backyard Killer

A California teenager nearly suffocates from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; a Hawaiian personal trainer suffers years of

EP 9

They Hijacked My Eyeball

A 13-year-old boy gets a cut on his leg that nearly leads to amputation when it becomes infected with Staphylococcus aur

EP 10

All I Got For Christmas Is Brain Surgery

The third episode of the series to be Christmas-themed – A baby is having problems controlling the left side of her bo

EP 1

Backyard Killers

This episode looks back at three cases from past episodes: a teenage boy with a grill bristle in his intestines (A Deadl

EP 2

I Have a What in my What?

A infant becomes totally paralyzed after accidental exposure to botulinum toxin; a Texas man develops severe pain in his

EP 3

There's Something Living In My Hand!

An Idaho 17-year-old football player is struck with a sore throat, breathing difficulties/lung pain, confusion, kidney f

EP 4

My Wife is Rotting

During a family vacation cruise, a Louisiana 2-year-old is restless and drools, which leads to vomiting and kidney and l

EP 5

My Hands Are Falling Off

A Canadian woman suffers a piercing pain in her throat and vomiting from accidentally swallowing a grill bristle (for wh

EP 6

My Evil Twin is Driving Me Crazy

A four-year-old Pennsylvania boy gets a runny nose with red discharge, stomach pains, pale skin and extreme pain from ac

EP 7

Holiday from Hell

The show's fourth Christmas-themed episode, and the second episode of the series that looks back at three past cases, in

EP 1

Help! I'm Being Eaten Alive

A young girl is brought to the hospital with stabbing pains in her scalp; a mother's mysterious symptoms threaten to tea

EP 2

My Brain Is Under Attack

A man falls comatose; a college student has a sore throat; and a young woman's symptoms confound experts.

EP 3

My Second Brain Is Killing Me

A man has something living in his eye; a young girl mysteriously falls ill; and a woman's bizarre symptoms push her to t

EP 4

The Monster in My Mouth

An infant falls mysteriously ill; a biology professor becomes an unexpected host; and a family man is brought to the bri

EP 5

There's a Maggot in My Head

A new mother is in critical condition; a young boy has an ailment that no antibiotics can cure; and a young man has an i

EP 6

Something Is Eating My Baby

A young boy has a strange condition; a woman's symptoms push her to madness; and a toddler falls into a trance-like stat

EP 7

Braced for Death

A teenager develops mysterious blotchy sores; an athlete is hit by a rare infection; and a woman battles strange bouts o

EP 8

I Can't Stop Coughing Up Blood

A man coughs up blood; a newlywed husband is struck down by a rare disease; and a father struggles with abdominal pain.

EP 9

The Organ Shredder

An infant is suddenly paralyzed; a father is infected with a monster that threatens to blind him; and a woman's excrucia

EP 10

My Lungs Are Rotting

A woman is struck down by a dangerous parasite; an infant falls mysterious ill; and a fungus brings a young man to the b

EP 11

All I Got For Christmas

After a man hits his head, he's left fighting a one-on-a-million medical mystery; a boy's wounded knee becomes home to a

EP 12

There Are Twigs In My Urine

A man develops a strange growth on his wrist; a nurse finds twig-like pieces in her urine; and a pregnant woman falls il

EP 13

Holiday Hell: Why Is My Abdomen Full of Boils?

Christmas time is here, and these three victims each receive a monstrous gift. In Florida, a woman is out Christmas shop

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