River Monsters — S03E06 — Cold-Blooded Horror

00:00:14 I'm Jeremy Wade, biologist and extreme angler.

00:02:08 But I have to focus.

00:03:44 Called fugu,

00:05:06 One is this hideous, scaly gremlin called the kappa.

00:06:40 We meet outside an ancient shrine...

00:08:06 is this composite water monster.

00:09:35 in the real world between catfish and earthquakes.

00:11:29 Ah!

00:13:07 Because what I'm looking for is so unusual,

00:14:58 Catfish tend to be nocturnal,

00:16:51 lurking beneath the surface of this lake.

00:18:52 Is that something that you believe?

00:20:31 passes through the light beam,

00:21:51 And in a country obsessed with fish,

00:24:37 a place where people make offerings

00:26:23 That is definitely something I've got to see for myself.

00:28:46 which is actually not that uncommon

00:30:26 But it is very rare now.

00:31:57 I'm off now to look for a hanzaki in the wild.

00:33:39 a little bit of tail sticking out.

00:35:18 And that's exactly what this has got.

00:36:43 I struggled to avoid getting bitten by the last one.

00:38:19 Complete with this powerful tail.

00:40:19 And in my book, it certainly qualifies as a river monster.