- The true stories of people whose homes were infested by animals ranging from ants and spiders to raccoons and snakes are told through reenactments, with the victims themselves participating.
- A hair-raising series, Infested!, unearths real-life horror stories of homes crawling with critters, over-run with rodents and plagued by pests hazardous to your health and sanity. Hell bent on claiming your home for their own, these invaders conquer through sheer numbers, sustained attacks and the threat of disease or infection, turning homes into battlegrounds and leaving their human victims no place to hide. Compelling interviews reveal the pain and anguish of living with shocking infestations of cockroaches, rats, bedbugs, scorpions, ants, raccoons, mice, snakes and spiders. When pests make your home their home it will never feel the same again.
Episode One: The Twenty First Century may be the age of pests. Cities are growing, people are travelling further, and even pesticides are losing their powers, giving invaders such as rats and bedbugs new opportunities. Creepy noises from under the floor scare a single Mom and her family into believing their home is haunted. But its the first sign that rats are taking over the house, running over the sleeping children, and even attacking the Mom. A dream home in the New Jersey suburbs becomes a battleground as a family goes to war against bedbugs which come back time after time despite expensive extermination treatment. And a family in Phoenix find their well-watered lush neighbourhood attracts deadly creatures from the surrounding desert. The scorpions like water, and can find refuge inside Arizona homes. Three very different infestations with one thing in common each of these different pests takes advantage of Twenty First Century lifestyles.
Episode Two: Three families wanting to get close to Nature find themselves much closer than they ever planned. An infestation of venomous Hobo spiders leaves one Oregon woman dangerously ill, and forced to flee her new home. A desperate Idaho family have to keep their children indoors as their yard is invaded by snakes. Their ordeal only ends when they abandon their home to the reptiles, after finding that the reptiles have made their den inside the house in the walls and under the foundations. A Georgia couple cant stop a vast army of Argentine ants marching right into their home. They live on top of one of the biggest ant colonies in the world covering a vast swathe of the USA. They spend their last cent on remodelling the home in a vain attempt to keep the insects out. But there is no such thing as an ant-proof house.
Episode Three:
Sometimes pests will find a way in, no matter what.
Rivers of rodents wreak havoc in a small Australian town, and no traps or poison can hold back the deluge. Extraordinary unseen footage shows carpets of mice as they over-run houses and farms, leaving a foul stench, damaging farm machinery and devastating crops.
Other pests also overwhelm through sheer numbers. An apartment crawls with roaches despite repeated extermination because the roaches keep coming from a neighbour who wont let pest controllers in.
Some pests are just sneaky. Creepy noises in the attic disturb a Wisconsin family every night. Investigation reveals grisly animal remains. Raccoons have found a way in. Exterminators trap the cunning creatures but still they keep coming. Then a foul-smelling stain seeps down the walls, and rotting excrement drips onto clothes, sending the family to the hospital with serious lung problems. They may be dextrous and agile, but these are not cute raccoons.
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