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Busby Stoop Inn - 2009 - Investigation Report
The Busby Stoop Inn, at Kirby Wiske - a village near Thirsk in North Yorkshire - takes it odd name from the 18th century owner Thomas Busby and the hangmans gibbet across the road from where Thomas Busbys remains were displayed after he had been hung for the murder of his father-in-law in 1702. Since then, his ghost has appeared many times with his head lolling and a rope around his neck. Outside the inn a noose still dangles from a gallows arm.The Paranormal History Of The Busby Stoop Inn - 2009
Within the pub it is said a chair that Thomas - whilst in a drunken stupor and dragged from and taken straight to the gallows - was cursed by Busby and he swore that anyone who sat in his chair would die as violently and suddenly as he himself was about to.
Simon Theaskston, whose brewery owned the pub until 1998 said the legend may be odd and vague, but it is a matter of record that in the last 200 years or so, death has indeed struck anyone who dared to sit in the char within a very short time. It is said that many who sat in the chair were dead within days or even hours!! Eventually the chair was moved out of harms way and can now be found in Thirsk museum.
It has to be said that many of the chairs victims of the last few decades could be categorised as 'high risk'. They onclude an RAF pilot who was killed the following day, a motorist who crashed the next day and died of his injuries, a motorcyclist who died on his bike shortly after leaving the pub, a holiday hitch-hiker who was knocked downa and killed two days later and a local man in his late thirties who died of a massive heart attack the following night. But the odds against all of them dying so soon after sitting in the Busby Chair must be high enough to suggest this was no mere coincidence.
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Living just down the road from the Stoop, I go there pretty regularly. On the first occasion I visited, I stayed most of the day until closing time. After around 8pm, me and the 2 people I was with were the only ones left in the pub, apart from the barman obviously. So it was very quiet. I spent most of the evening sitting up by the door to the ladies toilets as we were taking turns playing pool. I felt nothing up there but did get an unexpected panic when my friend left me at the sink washing my hands in the ladies'. It was a very brief moment and I just felt so scared and that I had to get out. I did, quickly.
The most unsettling experience there on my first visit (same visit as above) was when we arrived to have Sunday lunch. We picked a table down near the kitchen door, next to a dolls house. Almost as soon as Id sat down, I asked my friend if we could move. I just felt uneasy and a bit sick where we were. I wouldnt sit at this table again, ever!
You should have popped down the road a little to Alanbrooke Barracks/RAF Topcliffe. I live here and regularly take the dog out for nightime walks around camp when I cant sleep. Now this is a place that is most def spooky :)
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