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@Raidra Let your nightmares be fueled.

There have been actual cases where people were actually bitten by pacus in Papua New Guinea (The history they had there makes it even more creepy to be honest).

Technically I wouldn't consider it as a urban legend anymore, catfish do have the potential to swallow a man. The only possible candidates for those are Piraibas, Goonch Catfish, possibly Vundu Catfish & Sareng as well.

If we go to even more extreme remotes places of the Amazon River, then you can add Redtail Catfish & Jau catfish onto that list as well.

This is why I love River Monsters. (The limitless ideas that can be taken from there and turned into creepypasta is simply overwhelming)