Mysterious non-fuzzy fingerprint of a firefighter

For decades, firefighters at the Chicago Fire Department have been paying attention to a strange fingerprint on the window. It was not faded even after using all cleaning methods .

The story of this strange fingerprint is about a brave firefighter who sacrificed himself while on duty.

Close to death

April 18, 1924 is a normal working day at the Chicago Fire Department. Now, Francis Leavy firefighter is cleaning a window. All morning he was mysteriously sad. Do not chat, do not smile friendly with colleagues like every day. Only the gloomy, dead atmosphere surrounded him.

Fingerprints are believed to be from Francis at the Chicago Fire Department

Suddenly, Francis told everyone about his anticipation that he would die that day. Colleagues immediately laughed and thought Francis was paranoid due to excessive fatigue. But they were wrong .

Tragedy takes place

The fire alarm bell began ringing about a huge fire that broke out in Curran Hall, a four-story building a few blocks from the Fire Department.

The scene of the fire caused Francis Leavy to die

Firefighters were immediately present and battled with flames from both sides of the building. On the floor, the victims are still stuck and fall short of oxygen due to smoke inhalation. Firefighters immediately use the ladder and rescue some people. However, the fire began to mysteriously spread to the lower floors, causing the whole building to sink into the sea of ​​fire, the roof and walls collapsing in turn, people were killed by falling from above, one after another. including Francis Leavy.

Mysterious fingerprints

After the accident, many people were killed, and the survivors suffered serious injuries. The cause of the fire was later investigated due to the fire. A small business downstairs of the building set fire to conceal insurance fraud.

People tried to erase Francis' fingerprints on the glass but couldn't

The incident seemed to have closed but oddly enough, the firefighters found the fingerprint on the window the next morning that Leavy had cleaned the day before. Leavy's colleagues have been looking for ways to hire glass cleaner to use a powerful detergent, but Leavy's fingerprints remain. After all, the firefighters decided that they would keep their fingerprints as a memory to remember Francis Leavy. Unfortunately, on April 18, 1944, exactly 20 years after the death of Leavy, a newspaper delivery boy threw a newspaper into a window that broke the glass panel, erasing the long-obsessed fingerprint.