Episode list

Chris visits the town that was brought to a standstill by a swarm of flying insects, as well as meeting the polar bears whose bizarre friendships shocked a community and the sleepless residents kept awake by a lover's deafening serenade.

Chris Packham unpacks the strange fiction facts behind what really happened. Chris looks at the events that stop people in their tracks, invade the human world and disrupt everyday lives. He travels to a village awash with billions of tiny crabs, meets the residents facing an angry mob of elk and visits the town that woke up to an apocalyptic sky.

Chris looks at some of the most extraordinary behaviours and extreme adaptations that animals have developed to survive. He discovers the secret of a frozen frog that can bring itself back to life, unmasks the slimy character responsible for mysterious oceanic ooze and delves into the underworld of real life zombies.

From a crab milked for its blue blood and stones moving across the desert by themselves to a veritable swarm of rabbits, Chris Packham unravels nature's weirdest events.

This episode investigates commuting dogs on the Moscow metro (they know their stops and stations!) -- and something very strange lurking on an Australian golf course which brings new meaning to the word "hazard" on the golf course!

This episode investigates fish that have learned to attack birds on land. If that isn't bad enough, we encounter an animal that fakes its own death. And last but not least, the curious strategy some goats use to avoid - well, anything. Be alarmed, surprised and amused all in the same episode!

Chris Packham elaborates on a few strange phenomena in the animal world. When females of butterfly species happen to lay their eggs close near each-other, the result can be an overpopulation of caterpillars, who all make cocoons, which can thus assemble to what appears a huge cloak over trees and anything nearby. Sometimes fishmongers and their clients are revolted by the sight of a large parasite in the mouth of fishes, which locks into their tongues or even appears to replace it.

Chris Packham elaborates on more strange phenomena in the animal world. In California, a marina is flooded with dead sardines. There are several theories about what happened to them, but dissection showed a chemical produced by blooming algae which caused a fatal lack of oxygen.

In Florida, fish are walking out of the water, through the grass, and into your pond. Things are no better in France because bees in France are making bizarre multi-colored honey. Just another abnormal day across the world!

This episode explores the legend of a sea serpent, and the reality of an 18 foot long creature sighted on Catalina Island. Goats are behaving strangely yet again (this time in Africa). And that's only part of the show. It's a stranger world than you can imagine out there!