History's Most Shocking

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. Two cyclists barely make it out of a tunnel alive before being crushed by a speeding train.

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. A truck driver narrowly escapes his vehicle before it's hit by an oncoming train. A French Tailor tests his parachute suit by leaping off the Eiffel Tower in 1912.

Skydivers narrowly escape two colliding planes; a father and son are in danger as they drive through a raging wildfire; what to do and what not to do when stalked by a cougar.

A woman survives being sucked into a tornado. An out-of-control elevator reveals a long history of mishaps. A motorcyclist fights for his life as he is knocked down and swept away by a raging flood. And what caused the historic tsunami that struck Thailand in 2004, one of the deadliest disasters in modern history.