The chair of death.
In Thirsk England hanging 5 feet of the ground in the Thirsk Museum is a chair called Busby's Stoop chair or dead mans chair it is also known as the chair of death according to whom is telling the story, An for good reason this chair is thought to have lead to the death of around 70 people. Now thats very Peculiar indeed.
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The 'Chair of Death' was the favorite chair of a stripper named Thomas Busby, who was convicted in 1702 for the murder of his father-in-law, Daniel Auty, whom he supposedly strangled for sitting in his favorite chair after an argument about Thomas' wife, Auty's daughter Elizabeth. On his way to the gallows in 1702, he asked to stop by the pub for one last drink he sat in his favorite chair an enjoyed his drink . Then as he was dragged away to be hung right out front of the pub he was hear yelling a curse on his chair, claiming that anyone who sat in it would be haunted and soon die a sudden death.
. It remained in the pub for centuries, and people were dared to sit in it.
During World War II, airmen from an nearby base made the pub a hot spot, and the chair became a "hot seat" and people noticed that the ones who sat in it would never come back from war. In 1967, two Royal air force pilots sat in it, and while driving back, they crashed into a tree and died. A few years later, two brick layers decided to try it, and that afternoon, the one who sat in it fell to his death.
The cursed chair has apparently "killed" every person who sat in it, In some dramatic way. no matter what. Some instances include a roofer who sat in it died after the roof he was working on collapsed that very afternoon, and a cleaning woman stumbled into it while mopping, and later that day she was killed by a brain tumor. She didn't even know she had an never showed symptoms for. The reports lasted up through the 1970's IT is also said that people who sat in the chair experienced peculiar hauntings taunting them about there death up until the moment they died. Hearing voices or receiving haunting warnings in mirrors,Eventually, the pub owner moved it into the basement, hoping that nobody would sit in it. However, one day a delivery man was in the basement and sat in it. An hour later, he crashed his truck and died. After that death, the landlord asked the local museum to take it. To ensure nobody sat in it again, they hung the chair five feet from the ground and this is where it remains to this day.
Although people are now safe from sitting in the chair, new stories still come out about the chair's power. One local was told about a driver who had picked up an airman. The airman asked to go to the bathroom, so they stopped at the Busby Stoop Inn. While waiting, the driver sat in the chair. When the airman didn't return, the driver left without him. The angered airman had to make his own way back to the base. When he got back, the airman grabbed a building brick and smashed the head of the driver, killing him. A lot of automobile accidents from the 1970's have also been attributed to the death chair.
But now It seemed, that because the museum has made it nearly impossible to be able to sit in the death chair, its "killing" days are over. The museum is still open and functioning with the chair in place as of December 2014.
The site of the execution, opposite the pub on the A61 and A167 crossroads (now a roundabout), was said to be haunted by Busby's ghost. That his apparition can be seen or at times he can be heard cursing the chair an all those who dare to sit in it.
A lot of people believe this to be a very true story tho there is at least 1 clue that it is all just folk lore. At one point A furniture historian examined the chair and found it to have machine-turned spindles, whereas 18th-century chairs were made using a pole lathe. He dated the chair to have been made in 1840, 138 years after Busby's execution.
So was there ever a real Busbys chair?
IF so what happened to it?
Was it destroyed replaced did the cure live on in this new chair, Or was it all just a publicity stunt to get patrons into the pub idk you decide Let me know what you think about this peculiar Occurrence down in the comments below
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