Plot Synopsis

Airing as part of Animal Planet's 2016 Monster Week, 9-1-1 ENCOUNTERS is a two-part special that documents calls to 9-1-1 made by people having strange and life-threatening encounters with animals. In the first episode, "Unleashed, Untamed and Unexplained," there's chaos in the animal kingdom from Massachusetts to California -- coyotes stalk an unsuspecting hiker, thousands of birds inexplicably fall from the sky, chimpanzees terrorize a suburban neighborhood and an escaped zoo tiger goes on the attack. Then, in the second program, "Beasts in Your Neighborhood," bystanders help save two men swarmed by bees in Texas and a girl mauled by a bear in Alaska. And an Ohio sheriff's department goes on tactical alert when dozens of exotic animals escape from a private zoo.