History's Most Shocking

A leopard goes on a rampage in India. A paraglider plummets to earth and uses his skills and fast thinking to survive. A woman gets a little too close for comfort to an elephant and suffers the consequences.

Controversy erupts when a man seeking his 15 minutes of internet fame crashes his plane into the Los Padres National Forest. The jaw-dropping moment when three giant snakes fall out of a family's roof.

A construction worker is caught out on the ledge of a burning building. Two kayakers are swallowed alive by a humpback whale in a terrifying encounter that's happened before in history.

Skydivers narrowly escape two colliding planes. A father and son are in danger as they drive through a raging wildfire. In 1992, things take a turn for the worst when a man tries to copy Harry Houdini and buries himself alive in a plexiglass coffin.

Why are people nearly getting hit by speeding trains all over the world? Chaos ensues when the wheels literally come off a vehicle going full speed on a busy highway. A snowmobiler is buried alive when he is caught in an avalanche.