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The infamous "Death Chair" of Busby Stoop at Carlton Minniott near Thirsk was allegedly cursed by Thomas Busby, a local coiner who was hanged for murder in 1702. After his execution Busby's rotting body was dangled from a gibbet by the roadside at the Busby Stoop in accordance with common practice at the time.
Legend has it that an untimely end will meet anyone who dares to sit in the chair, which (following a series of associated unnatural deaths) was eventually moved from the pub (where it had been a special ghoulish attraction with visitors sitting in it "for a dare") to a museum in Thirsk at the Busby Stoop landlord's request.
The pub is now a curry house, but the legend of the "Death Chair" of Busby Stoop lives on..
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