A Breakfast TV host was left screaming in agony after being stabbed by a nail during a magic trick that went horribly wrong live on air.
The terrifying incident happened on Polish show Questions for Breakfast when presenter Marzena Rogalska’s hand was impaled during a high-stakes stunt. The clip has since resurfaced and gone viral after the live incident in 2016.
Celebrity magician Marcin Poloniewicz, a Poland’s Got Talent semi-finalist, used four brown paper bags for the trick, with only one concealing a sharp nail.
He was supposed to identify the bag containing the nail but, in a shocking blunder, slammed Marzena’s hand down on the wrong one. She screamed as the nail drove through her hand.
TV presenter stabbed with a nail as magic trick goes wrong (Image: Pytanie na Śniadanie)
As she lifted her hand, the nail was still visible, stuck in her skin. She clutched her injured hand and moved back, wincing and crying out in pain.
At first, magician Marcin appeared unaware of the injury and even seemed to laugh before realising what had happened. His expression quickly changed, and he swore, saying: “I pierced her. Really, I pierced her.”
Marzena was rushed to hospital where she received medical treatment for the injury.
Following the horrifying incident, she took to Facebook to reassure fans, writing: “He didn’t mean for this to happen.” She also revealed that the trick had worked perfectly during rehearsals.
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Host Marzena Rogalska screamed out in pain (Image: Pytanie na Śniadanie)
on TV, but with a dire consequence. Divers desperately searched for the body of magician Chanchal Lahiri, 42, known by his stage name of Mandrake, after one of his performances went wrong.
Mr Lahiri was to be lowered by a crane into the River Hooghly in Kolkata, India while locked inside a small cage with his hand and feet tied and his eyes covered by a blindfold.
Announcing his dare-devil trick to a crowd shortly before, the magician said he would escape his trap and surface minutes later.
He told excited onlookers: “If I can open it up then it will be magic, but if I can’t it will be tragic.” However, to the horror of Mr Lahiri’s family and his crowd of admirers, the magician failed to resurface from the water.
Tragically, he drowned and his body, which washed up some 1km (0.6 miles) from the site of the incident, was later identified.