| Country: | Australia United States |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 12 |
| Producer: | John Stainton |
| Channel: | The Discovery Channel |
Your Worst Animal Nightmares is a 2009 short-lived television show made by John Stainton broadcast by Animal Planet[1] for The Discovery Channel. It is a docudrama with real events 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.
Your Worst Animal Nightmares focuses on stories of incidents involving victims and survivors of the worst animal attacks. 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.
Aired May 27, 2009
Subject: A grandmother tries to defend her family from a crocodile attack.
Aired May 27, 2009
Subject: A group of teenagers get attacked by great white sharks. One of them is killed just as his father predicted in his nightmare.
Aired June 3, 2009
Subject: Another shark attack on an Australian beach.
Aired June 3, 2009
Subject: A spider bite by an Australian funnel-web spider.
Aired June 10, 2009
Subject: Rowing on a river, Val Plumwood is attacked by a rogue crocodile in a canoe.
Aired June 10, 2009
Subject: Yet another shark attack in New Zealand.
Aired June 17, 2009
Subject: The famous Rodney Fox bite, as a great white shark attacks during a spear fishing competition.
Aired June 17, 2009
Subject: An attack by saltwater crocodile in an outback water hole.
Aired June 24, 2009
Subject: A surfer survives a snakebite on the isolated Moreton Island in Australia.
Aired June 24, 2009
Subject: A man is decapitated in a fatal crocodile attack while crossing a river.
Subject: An Australian adolescent gets bitten by a Taipan,(Please someone do your research; as someone involved with the episode production, I met Ryan the victim and his father, and others who know it was an Eastern Brown- not a Taipan, they have a distinctive shaped head and are third most venomous after the Eastern Brown https://m.imdb.com/video/vi1669334553/?ref_=ttvi_vi_imdb_1), the world's second most venomous snake, next to a river and faints in the water.
Subject: Two women are cornered next to a waterfall, when one of them tries to flee, being mutilated on the water by a crocodile.
Common Sense Media rated the show 2 out of 5 stars.[2]