The BEST episodes of Monsters Inside Me season 6

Every episode of Monsters Inside Me season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Monsters Inside Me season 6!

Depicts 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.

Last Updated: 11/15/2024Network: Animal PlanetStatus: Ended
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8.44
9 votes

#1 - An Amoeba is Eating My Brain

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/2015

A 2-year-old girl experiences severe pain and vomiting from a bark scorpion sting; a neuroscientist experiences multi-organ failure and nearly dies from leptospirosis; a 20-year-old woman suffers from severe vomiting and extreme headaches that turn out to be caused by balamuthia mandrillaris.

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8.29
14 votes

#2 - My Vacation from Hell

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/2015

During a fishing vacation, a soccer coach goes into septic shock from V. vulnificus necrotizing fasciitis; a 7-year-old girl gets facial tics, bouts of anxiety, and turns suicidal after a streptococcal brain infection; A makeup artist gets severe stomach cramps and watery diarrhea from Giardia lamblia.

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8.18
11 votes

#3 - There's a Fungus in My What!?!

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/2015

A newlywed woman gets extreme headaches, memory problems, sinus pressure, and painful rashes, while her husband gets endless nosebleeds, breathing problems, and brain fog from aspergillus; a councilman loses his spleen to visceral leishmaniasis; a 6-year-old gets a fever, red spots, a hurting mouth, loss of appetite, leg weakness, and breathing difficulties from rat bite fever.

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8.11
18 votes

#4 - Help! My Son is a Leper

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/2015

An athlete gets headaches, stomach pains, breathing difficulties, and a liver mass from entamoeba histolytica; a teenager develops a leg welt and then gets fatigue and red spots on his body over the course of several years. When the spots open, the doctors discover he has leprosy; a woman suffers severe headaches, nausea, vomiting, and seizures from E. rostratum.

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8.11
9 votes

#5 - The Backyard Killer

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/2015

A California teenager is unable to breathe after contracting hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; a Hawaiian personal trainer suffers years of neuropathic pain from ciguatera poisoning; a Michigan health worker nearly dies from babesiosis.

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8.10
10 votes

#6 - Worms Are Eating My Lungs

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/2015

An 11-month-old boy experiences wheezing and vomiting after swallowing a button battery; a landscaper becomes infected with paragonimus kellicotti; a female boxer gets a severe headache, a 105 fever, and impaired vision from cat scratch fever.

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7.85
13 votes

#7 - The Eyeball Eater

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/3/2015

A young collage student contracts acanthamoeba keratitis from sleeping in her contact lenses; an infant becomes temporarily paralyzed and almost dies from accidental ingestion of soil that contained the most deadly toxin known to science, botulinum toxin; a new mother has extreme pain from a piece of gauze (surgical sponge) that was left inside her abdomen during a C-Section.

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7.70
10 votes

#8 - They Hijacked My Eyeball

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/22/2015

A teenager turns feverish and fatigued when he gets a cut on his knee; a couple move into a new home to nasty rashes, breathing difficulties, and memory loss; something is destroying an 8-year-old's retinas.

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7.63
27 votes

#9 - There's Something Living In My Knee!?

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/29/2015

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 old scraps his knee on a rock at the beach, but when his father puts a liquid bandage on it, it causes it to swell the size of an orange - then, his mother squeezes the wound and finds a snail inside; a college student experiences loss of appetite, fatigue, fever, jaundice, and repetitive nightmares that turn into a reality from getting infected with malaria after returning from a trip to Ghana.

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7.25
8 votes

#10 - All I Got For Christmas Is Brain Surgery

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/2015

A baby is having problems controlling the left side of her body, before doctors discover the right side of her brain is malformed; a PR executive suffers a mysterious ailment over the course of an entire year; seizures ruin a schoolteacher's Thanksgiving, and they worsen around Christmas.

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