History's Most Shocking

A dad leaps into action to save an animal handler from an alligator attack; two vintage military aircraft collide at an air show in Dallas.

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 moment when three giant snakes fall out of a family's roof; two cyclists barely make it out of a tunnel.

A construction worker is caught out on the ledge of a burning building; a humpback whale swallows two kayakers alive; a truck driver narrowly escapes his vehicle before it gets hit by an oncoming train.

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.

Many people nearly get 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.