People Dying / Corpses Discovered In Chimneys

[EnolaGaia]

... Climbing into chimneys - what a strange thing to do. Do people sometimes do it successfully? I've only heard of it going disastrously wrong.

We only hear about it when the attempted passage is unsuccessful. If the trapped person is lucky (?) he / she might attract some help before dying in place.

Back in 2004 Mighty Emperor posted two stories of the latter (trapped but saved) variety in the World's Dumbest Criminals thread. Both entrapments occurred during attempted burglaries.

This one involved a chimney:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-worlds-dumbest-criminals.10650/post-329046

The warmer-climate version involves air conditioning ducts rather than a chimney:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-worlds-dumbest-criminals.10650/post-334442

 

[PeteS]

Did he die or was he rescued?

No he was rescued, fortunately.

 

[escargot]

From the New York Post:

Screams for help heard month before missing 29-year-old’s body found in Nebraska chimney

The body of a missing man was found inside a Nebraska chimney last week — more than a month after mysterious screams for help were heard inside the building.

The victim was identified Wednesday as 29-year-old Zachariah Andrews, who had an arrest warrant issued against him more than two weeks after he vanished, police said.

Andrews’ body was recovered Oct. 19 when a maintenance worker was investigating a foul odor coming from the chimney of the apartment in Norfolk, a city 110 miles northwest of Omaha.

The employee discovered what appeared to be human shoes dangling from the shaft, police told the Norfolk Daily News.