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This episode tells the harrowing story of how two students and a professor at Virginia Tech University managed to survive the April 16, 2007, massacre at the school. One of the students, Colin, had to lay motionless and play dead as the gunman shot him four times. We also chronicle the amazing story of the Minneapolis school bus with 52 children that plummeted 45 feet when a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in August 2007. Trapped in her seat, driver Kim held the brake, keeping the bus from rolling backwards, as counselor Jimmy and his co-workers rush to evacuate the children, including Kim's own daughter.

A young girl and her best friend are abducted by serial killers; two hunters crash their small plane in the remote Alaskan wilderness and are horrifically burned.

A young woman is brutally assaulted then set on fire by her attacker. A man is forced to amputate part of his leg. An act of kindness backfires on a long distance motorist who is left fighting for his life at the roadside.

Four young Americans are kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan; a young couple's holiday in Thailand turns into a fight for survival when tsunami strikes.

A journalist is kidnapped in the mountains of Pakistan by a Taliban faction and held prisoner for 45 days, constantly afraid that each day is to be the day of his execution.

Maria feared for her safety as one of her fellow employees at the hospital where she worked became increasingly volatile. Jerry swerved his car to avoid a deer and crashed over an embankment where a tree branch became lodged in his throat.

Two friends and their fathers fly to Mexico for a fishing trip, but turbulence forces their plane to crash land. Dawn is plunged into a nightmare when four men invade her house. And while working, Agnes is abducted by an armed robber.

A man survives 23 hours in the ocean after he gets separated from his dive partner. A woman is robbed and threatened by her best friend and her brother. And, a woman is shot and blinded by a man who then holds her captive in his home.

A machete-wielding intruder terrorizes a woman in her apartment; a savage attack by a grizzly bear leaves a man partially scalped and miles from help; and a blindfolded 16-year-old girl fights for her life after being abducted at knifepoint.

A fourth-grader and two teachers are taken hostage in a classroom with 151 others; a couple honeymooning in Jamaica is attacked by an escaped mental patient with a wooden machete.

A store manager and his staff are held up and shot by two killers; an 18-year-old has both his arms torn off in an accident on the family farm; a 17-year-old girl is kidnapped and assaulted by a serial killer.

A young nurse is abducted and tortured by a serial killer who has already murdered four other women; a mother and her four year old daughter are trapped in the attic of their house by a flash flood.

A pregnant woman is viciously attacked by a woman obsessed with making the unborn child her own. A couple cling to the rafters of their home as Hurricane Ike unleashes its fury on them. A woman fends off a man who has hidden in her family home for days.

A romantic walk turns into a nightmare for two young friends when a man forces them into his truck at gunpoint and shoots them both. A snowmobile outing ends in a near-death experience for two brothers when they plunge through the ice of a frozen river. A woman is brutally attacked twice by the same gang of hoodlums.

Christine's and Heidi's trip on a Greek ferry becomes a nightmare when the boat begins to sink and the crew abandons the ship, leaving the panicked passengers to fend for themselves. Debbie suffers a five-day ordeal at the hands of an attacker, who keeps her blindfolded and gagged, rapes her, and forces her to sleep next to him. And a simple act of kindness results in a vicious assault for Jim when he is brutally attacked in his apartment by his neighbor after inviting the young man into his home to chat.

Brandi and her friend offer a ride to man who turns on them. Joseph and two other men are stranded on a rocky, barren island for 13 days. And Sam and Suzanne are kidnapped by a hitchhiker who forces them to drive several hundred miles at gunpoint.

A single mother is kidnapped, stabbed and left for dead by three hardened criminals and her heroic survival is unforgettable. A long-haul truck driver must drive his 40-ton rig through the biggest fire in Utah History. A woman is stalked and brutally abducted by an ex-boyfriend.

A canyoneering trip becomes a terrifying fight for survival when a flash flood launches three men over two massive waterfalls, and a 13-year-old boy is abducted and raped by a serial pedophile before being chained up in a buried box and left to die.

A heart-wrenching drama unfolds when a man struggles to save himself and his family from drowning in frigid waters and a female prison officer uses her strength and quick thinking skills to stay alive during the longest prison siege in U.S. history.

A 15-year-old girl is abducted and raped by a serial killer. A photographer is trapped under the rubble of a collapsed hotel in the Haitian earthquake. A woman is beaten and slashed with scissors by a neighbor.

A woman answers a desperate plea for help from an ex-boyfriend and finds herself trapped and repeatedly raped during a hellish four hours before she is strangled; a young mother is stabbed over 25 times after breaking up with a Hollywood actor.

On their first date, a young woman and her friend are shot execution style; two strangers' lives collide in a deadly train collision; and during one terror filled evening a 13-year-old escapes from the men who have abducted and assaulted her.

A pregnant woman is brutally attacked by her neighbor. A young girl endures years of abuse by a family friend before being abducted and held captive. And, an experienced hiker spends three days crawling down a mountain after breaking his ankle.

A Bethlehem, New York woman is attacked in bed with a fireman's axe by an unknown man after he murders her husband; A cook is left to die in a burning room after she is shot twelve times at close range by an unknown assailant in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

A family is subjected to a vicious attack during a brutal home invasion; a rail yard worker risks his life to save a town; and a realtor is attacked by a man posing as a client.

A young woman is abducted by 4 armed men and sexually assaulted for 15 hours; two teenage sisters are attacked and raped while their uncle is shot by a masked gunman.

An ordinary Friday at the Seattle headquarters of the Jewish Federation turns nightmarish when a crazed gunman demands an end to the war in Iraq and shoots four workers. A criminal justice teacher is shot multiple times and poisoned twice by an unknown assailant. A young woman swims through shark-infested waters in a desperate bid for survival.

A woman is kidnapped from her home, dragged into the woods, & sexually assaulted; a pilot and his friend spend 10 hours floating in the Pacific Ocean after their plane crashed; a woman survives being shot 6 times by playing dead.

Two women fight for their lives when a knife-wielding attacker ambushes them on a mountain trail and two men on vacation survive 14 hours adrift at sea after their ship sinks in 15 to 20 foot waves.

While out walking his dog in the woods, Timothy is attacked by a grizzly bear. Scott and Sean enjoy a fishing trip until a drifter arrives at their campsite, pulls a gun, and shoots them both.

A mother of three survives a prolonged attack from her estranged husband. A newly pregnant woman is horrifically injured when she is caught in a fish processing machine on a boat 160 miles from land. Ten people are held hostage in a library by a man armed with a bomb and a gun.

A woman is left for dead when two terrorists storm the hotel she is staying in. A 14-year-old saves her brother when their home is destroyed in a tragic house fire. A woman is left permanently scarred in a deadly domestic abuse incident.

A woman fights for her life as her boyfriend stabs her. A man trapped for three days in his basement with his arm caught in a boiler faces an agonizing decision--amputate or die? And a teacher is carjacked by an armed fugitive.

Attacked in her home by her mother's boyfriend, a 17-year-old girl fights to stay alive. An experienced sailor escapes from a sinking yacht. And an elderly couple are terrorized by an escaped convict who holds them hostage in their own home.

A woman is lucky to be alive after being assaulted by a man who has murdered before. A family's snowmobiling outing on a frozen lake turns to horror. Two teenage girls encounter a killer, but only one survives the nightmare.

Wayne and Mary woke up to find their farmhouse surrounded by a cloud of lethal chlorine gas following a rail derailment. While Holly and her boyfriend Chris were taking a quiet stroll near the railroad tracks, they were accosted by a man demanding money.

A California man taken hostage by Marxist rebels in Colombia survives by letting his capturers believe he's busy dying. Two teenage girls on their way home from school are abducted, sexually assaulted, stabbed and left for dead.

Roger awakes one day to find a 40-foot wall of fire racing up the valley towards their house. Sydney, only 15 years old, bravely leaps 12 feet out of her house in a desperate attempt to escape two attackers.

A new series that tells the real-life stories of people who faced life-threatening events, yet somehow found the courage and strength to survive against all odds. In this episode, Bridget Kelly is raped, shot three times, and left for dead by an intruder in her home; Daryl is caught in a freak blizzard that threatens to bury him alive in his jeep; and two boys, Ryan and John, survive a plane crash and maintain cell phone contact with a 911 operator as rescuers desperately try to find them.

A man is held hostage on a shuttle bus with several others by a man with a gun for over 8 hours in Atlantic City, New Jersey; a Bullhead City, Arizona, woman is sexually assaulted and shot after a botched home invasion leaves her friends and her husband dead.

A man and his wife survive a horrific plane crash. A heroic rescue bid goes horribly wrong for two firefighters caught on a drifting ice floe. And, a woman is beaten and left for dead following a violent home invasion.

Two hours after detonating a massive car bomb in Oslo, Norway, killing 8 people, the bomber disguises himself as a policeman and makes his way to Utoya Island where 530 teenagers are attending a summer camp. During an 80-minute rampage, he stalks and shoots the defenseless teenagers. Sofie, Adrian, Rebekka, and Magnus survive the massacre, but 69 others die.

A woman miraculously survives three gunshot wounds to the head. A family outing turns into a nightmare when they are attacked by bees. And a school library becomes a killing field as two gunmen go on a shooting rampage.

Attacked and abducted by a church handyman, an elderly woman is left in the trunk of her car to die. Miners survive 77 hours trapped in a rapidly flooding coal mine. A student and his roommate are held captive by two masked gunman.

A young woman is abducted by another woman who tries to steal her unborn baby from her body. A geologist is attacked by a 500 pound grizzly bear. And a woman is shot and held hostage by a drunk ex-Marine.

An aspiring young model is sexually assaulted; a man trekking in Ecuador is kidnapped for five weeks; a family's movie night turns tragic when four armed people attempt to rob them.

Three survivors from the ill-fated UA Flight 232 relive the terrifying moments leading up to and after one of America's worst ever aviation disasters. A young woman violently assaulted by two men displays extraordinary courage to flee her attackers.

A young woman is abducted and put through a horrifying eight day ordeal by a man who forces her to live inside a metal box. Two brothers are struck by lightning. A propane truck driver is attacked while making a delivery but she decides to fight back.

High on the drug PCP, a man goes on a rampage, stabbing his 11-year-old daughter and 2 neighbors; a man is beaten unconscious by his building contractor.

Cari is brutally stabbed, beaten, and sexually assaulted by an intruder in her home, but knows she must survive the attack to save her son. And, a four-inch steel tow hook accidentally lodges in a Kevin's throat.

An armed robbery on a Mexican beach escalates into a horrifying sexual assault. An afternoon run in the woods becomes a battle for survival when a tornado strikes. And a Pastor is disemboweled and left for dead in a brutal home invasion.

A woman working alone in a store is attacked by a customer who drags her to the stock room and stabs her 31 times; a doctor is abducted by a meth addict demanding cash; pirates board a couple's yacht.

A woman is taken hostage by her ex-husband; a man faces agonizing death by fire, covered in gasoline; a man's home is invaded by two masked men who threaten to blind him.

A 16-year-old girl is abducted and assaulted by two gunmen. A deer hunter must drag himself up a dry creek bed for help after breaking both his legs. A college student is used as a human shield when a gunman goes on a rampage in his school cafeteria.

A young woman is stabbed, abducted, & sexually assaulted; a man is sucked up 50 feet in the funnel cloud of a tornado; a woman's husband is shot when her brother opens fire at Thanksgiving dinner.

A boy wakes up one night and witnesses a vicious stabbing attack. A family is left stranded midair when the pilot of their small plane collapses. Twin sisters get caught in the line of fire when a fellow student goes on a shooting rampage.

Kidnapped at gunpoint, Gracia and her husband are forcibly marched through the Philippine jungle by Islamic militants; driving in the Idaho Wilderness, Michelle is impaled in the neck by a branch; Richard is abruptly woken by a knife-wielding intruder.

Abducted in the trunk of her own car, a woman suffers unimaginable horror. Trapped in the ruins of a tornado ravaged building a young woman prepares to die. And an eight-year-old girl is kidnapped by a man who leaves her to die in a field.

A young woman is abducted at knifepoint and sexually assaulted. A farmer rips his own hand off to escape from a combine harvester. And a 14-year-old girl is left for dead at her home after having her throat slit.

A woman sees her father shot dead right in front of her; a crazed gunman slaughters seven friends of a pastor; an ex-boyfriend viciously attacks a young mother and her new partner.

A woman helps a motorist on an isolated road and is viciously attacked with a screwdriver; a woman is raped by a masked man; a young girl working at a convenience store is attacked by a customer who saws through her vocal cords with a serrated fish knife.

A fake internet date brings a man face-to-face with a would-be serial killer; a couple fights for their lives when a black bear invades their home; a man wakes up to find his neighbor about to pound a sharpened crucifix into his chest.

A routine drug surveillance mission over the Colombian jungle turns into a nightmare when Keith and Marc's plane crash-lands and they are captured by FARC guerillas and held hostage for five grueling years.

A Gilmer, Texas, woman is abducted from the prison where she works by a convicted murderer, and held captive at gunpoint for 26 hours on the run with him, sparking the largest search in Texas history; a heavily pregnant woman is stabbed 27 times at a gas station in West Swanzey, New Hampshire, by a man who accuses her of beating up his sister.

A 15-year-old boy from Bothell, Washington, is shot through the jaw and plays dead for three hours during a horrific school shooting; and an elderly woman, whose daughter deals drugs, winds up stabbed four times in her yard in Barnardsville, North Carolina, in a case of apparent mistaken identity.

A 15-year-old is snatched off the street on an early morning run. A man goes head-to-head with a killer chimpanzee, and a woman is shot and left for dead in a freezer with two slain co-workers.

When a woman leaves her husband, he throws gasoline on her and set her alight; a native New Yorker is lost in a blizzard in Idaho; a home invasion leads to a leap of courage.

A convenience store worker plays dead to escape her abductor. An endurance athlete faces her greatest challenge ever after falling 60 feet in a remote canyon. A couple put their lives on the line to protect their children in a home invasion.

An intruder smothers a woman & hits her over the head repeatedly before stripping her naked & taking photos; a young woman walking home by herself is brutally knifed in the street by a serial killer.

A young mother is attacked and strangled by a man she meets at a party. A snowmobiler survives a series of avalanches but loses eight of his friends. A 14-year-old boy and his best friend are attacked by a 17-year-old who cuts their throats.

An 8-year-old girl is abducted on her way home from school; a woman is viciously attacked with a knife and must scramble up a 100-foot hill to escape; a woman and her husband are shot while hiking.

A stockbroker is shot 5 times by a former client; two sisters are stranded for 4 hours in an icy Alaskan lake; a woman is abducted at gunpoint by a man with a grudge against her family.