124: THE BUSBY CHAIR
A cursed chair in a North Yorkshire pub is said to have killed everyone who has sat in it? It’s something we must explore. Thomas Busby was hanged for murder in 1702. His cursed chair became one of England's most infamous pieces of haunted furniture, linked to dozens of deaths over three centuries. But the truth of the Busby Stoop Chair may be stranger than any ghost story.
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