Beast Hunter
2011 American TV series or program
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Beast Hunter is a television series that began airing on March 9, 2011 on National Geographic Channel. It is hosted and narrated by wildlife scientist Pat Spain.[2] In each episode, he travels to a different part of the world to investigate an individual cryptid's alleged existence. This typically involves interviews with local witnesses, setting up camera traps, and in some cases, searching for similar animals in the local fossil record. When the series is aired in the UK, it is renamed Beast Man.
| Beast Hunter | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Paranormal |
| Narrated by | Pat Spain |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Ashley Hoppin [1] |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company | Icon Films |
| Original release | |
| Network | National Geographic Channel |
| Release | March 4, 2011 |
Episodes
| No. | Title | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Man Ape of Sumatra" | March 4, 2011 | |
| 2 | "Nightmare of the Amazon" | March 4, 2011 | |
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In the Brazilian Amazon, Pat Spain searches for the Mapinguari, a massive sloth-like creature purported by locals to be behind a series of attacks.[4] | |||
| 3 | "Swamp Monster of the Congo" | March 11, 2011 | |
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Mokele-mbembe, a creature reported to resemble a sauropod dinosaur is investigated by Pat Spain in the Congo River basin.[5] | |||
| 4 | "Sea Serpent of the North" | March 18, 2011 | |
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Pat Spain dives by submersible off the coast of British Columbia, in search of the alleged sea serpent Cadborosaurus.[6] | |||
| 5 | "Mongolian Death Worm" | March 25, 2011 | |
