The WORST episodes of Monsters Inside Me
Every episode of Monsters Inside Me ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Monsters Inside Me!
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.
#1 - The Killer in the Lake
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/2014
Disaster befalls three individuals who are suddenly living their worst nightmares. A contractor suffers a bump on his head while he is working, but days later, he finds himself in the ICU fighting for his life with something in his brain.
#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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - I Smell Like Death
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/2014
Three healthy people with a love of the outdoors are struck down by a deadly menace that lurks inside them. In Ohio, a young boy wastes away in front of his parents' eyes as a mysterious infection overtakes his body.
#6 - The Brain Colonizer
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/2014
Three lively people suddenly come face to face with their own mortality. In Virginia, a teen suffers seizures and sudden blindness, when doctors discover her brain is under attack.
#7 - My Body Is Rotting
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/11/2014
Trouble is lurking in the bodies of three different women. In rural Washington State, a teenager's shoulder pain leads to her being quarantined in a matter of days. If doctors can't determine what's attacking her, she'll die.
#8 - A Holiday in the Hospital
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/4/2014
Christmas time is here, and these three victims each receive a monstrous gift. In Florida, a woman is out Christmas shopping when she suddenly feels a stabbing pain in her eye so severe that she believes she sees shadows of worms in her eye.
#9 - Vampire Parasites Attack
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/2014
A war veteran, a PhD scientist, and a newborn, all clinging to life by a string. In Tennessee, new parents are horrified when a deadly infection pushes their baby daughter to the brink of death.
#10 - There's a Worm Crawling in My What?
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2014
The lives of three young people are suddenly turned upside down. In South Dakota, what begins as a common sore throat quickly spirals out of control for a fifteen year old girl, as a rare and dangerous affliction leaves her clinging to life.
#11 - 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.
#12 - A Menace in My Own Backyard
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/2014
A Massachusetts EMT is shattered by a routine emergency call when she discovers that the victim is her son. A self-described tough guy in New Jersey is reduced to tears when something sinister starts to rip apart his intestines.
#13 - West Nile Attack
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/2014
When three unsuspecting young families are thrown into a tailspin, they are shocked to learn of the tiny culprits wreaking havoc on their lives. First, a married couple in California watch helplessly as their son struggles for every last breath.
#14 - My Daughter's Going Crazy
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/2014
3 women living in vastly different locales have one thing in common: they've become unwitting hosts to baffling and deadly terrors. A teenage girl thinks she might be losing her mind, but see soon realizes she has a life threatening inflammation of the brain.
#15 - My Christmas From Hell
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/18/2013
It's Christmas, and a young globe-trotting couple returns home for some holiday cheer only to discover some sly stowaways that bite, suck, and consume the flesh. A family man discovers that something is eating his heart out, literally.
#16 - Maggots Are Eating Me Alive
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/11/2013
Three vibrant people, each with strong family bonds, each ripped apart by an insidious monster. A teenager dodges death when he survives getting sucked into a tornado. When his trauma wounds mysteriously don't heal, doctors discover a hideous infection.
#17 - My Husband Is Hallucinating
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2013
A small-town boy's summer fun is cut short by an apparent flu that suddenly transforms into a life-threatening condition. An extreme case of asthma strikes a former beauty queen.
#18 - A Deadly Swim
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/18/2013
Three families enjoy the bounties of nature, and all of them suffer its wrath. A young girl's love of swimming comes back to haunt her when she develops severe headaches, nausea, and a bizarre rash all over her body. The cause sends everyone reeling.
#19 - I Almost Killed My Baby
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/2013
Three deadly illnesses darken the future of three young boys. In Illinois, a mother thinks her newborn son has something wrong with his eyes. When doctors analyze the boy further, they discover something is eating his eyes and brain. Can he be saved?
#20 - There's Something Living In My Hand!
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2016
Sea creatures cause crippling pain in the hand of a marina dock master.
#21 - All I Got For Christmas
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/2017
After a man hits his head, he's left fighting a one-on-a-million medical mystery; a boy's wounded knee becomes home to an uninvited guest; a man unwittingly feeds his own intended killer.
#22 - My Lungs Are Rotting
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/2017
A dangerous parasite strikes a woman down; an infant suffers a mysterious illness; a fungus brings a man to the brink of death.
#23 - There Are Twigs In My Urine
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/2017
A strange growth develops on a man's wrist; a nurse finds twig-like pieces in her urine; a pregnant woman falls ill with flu-like symptoms.
#24 - The Organ Shredder
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2017
An infant is suddenly paralyzed; a young father grapples with a monster that threatens to blind him; a woman's excruciating pain confounds experts.
#25 - I Can't Stop Coughing Up Blood
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/2017
A man coughs up blood; a newlywed husband is felled by a rare disease; a father struggles with abdominal pain.