Final Post (for Genius Hour 2015 at least).

*I'm sorry to my readers coming here for my countdowns or whatever you want to call them but this post is almost purely for school, for more info go look at the last paragraph.

1. What was your favorite part of the topic you chose?

My favorite part of it was the overall fact that I learned things that I myself didn't even know going into this and having it spark an even bigger interest in me.


2. What was your least favorite part of the topic you chose?

How when I tried to talk to people not involved in the project or nonbelievers they just shrugged me off and listened to nothing I had to say. (It may also be why a few people I know haven't been talking to me, its not people from school don't worry.) And at times I only had so much information to go off of since not everyone calls some of the things I've written about the same as the next person (e.g. The Chair of Death goes by like 20 different names)

3. What do you like best about Genius Hour research?

I was able to find people who believe the same things as me and on most of the things i only needed a couple sites to get a very decent sized entry and enough information (e.g. The story for the doll Annabelle.) And unlike others who started to hate they're topics after the second post I'm still extremely interested in mine.


4. What do you like least about Genius Hour research?

It got very annoying at points because some of the sites i tried to use differed so greatly from the stories on other source sites i had to drop the part that i waned to do, other times the sites didn't provide adequate information, and sometimes they were just stupid troll sites. (On a couple of my entries it was near impossible to get them completed because of certain family members, who shall not be named [*cough* Greg *cough*], not letting me have my computer back and the above stated reasons. )


5. What was the most important thing you learned about yourself, how you learn, or research in general as a result of this work?

I learned that i am more easily distracted than i originally thought, and that i learn in a very roundabout way, because if something doesn't interest me the second i look at it i flit away from it then if i hear something interesting about it ill jump at the chance to read up on it more. Its also easier for me to read about things rater than watch a video on it because i can pretty much guarantee that if i only have words playing on a video presenting itself to me, instead of me actually putting all of my attention into reading it, my mind will drift and i will lose interest almost immediately. 


So now time for my end bit; I will most likely to update this blog except, it will only be when I have free time, it may become a bit more rambley (that's not a word but I used it so it is now), it will be for my enjoyment only, and a few entries will probably veer from my original topic, but main thing is that updates will be more random, and less common during my school year than during my summer but even then they will probably still be random updates, and far in-between so please if you're going to follow this blog or continue looking at it don't complain because I'll just direct you to this post, because people on the internets do have other things to do, and have lives going on around them like new people moving into their home or owning five rather large dogs. So until next time, (whenever that may be) Buh-Bye.

One haunted object.

*Note: I will be adding more onto this but as it stands my family decided to go out of town for the weekend, without informing me in advance, and dragged me along. So I'm just a bit short on time.

The Chair of Death

The 'Chair of Death' was the favorite chair of a man 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 favourite 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 a drink of ale in his favorite chair as his last request. When he finished, he said "May sudden death come to anyone who dare sit in my chair."

Despite this it remained in the pub for centuries, and people were dared to sit in it. During WWII it became a popular haunt for soldiers and the chair became a game to them, and others noted that the men who sat in it never came back. 

Even after all that in 1967, two Royal air force pilots sat in it, and while driving back, they crashed into a tree and died then, 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, no matter what. Some instances include a roofer who sat in it died after the roof he was working on collapsed, and a cleaning woman stumbled into it while mopping, and was later killed by a brain tumor. 

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, presumably because he was tired. 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. It is said that for some time prior to death (time varies in all cases) the person who sat in the chair experiences haunting experiences, including extreme itching, paranoia, hearing things, confusion, items being moved and written warnings on mirrors and walls about the persons imminent death in addition to many other strange happenings.

*Note: I will be adding more onto this but as it stands my family decided to go out of town for the weekend, without informing me in advance, and dragged me along. So I'm just a bit short on time.