Sunday, May 3, 2015

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.

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