Just before they hung him, Thomas Busby laid a curse on anybody who sat in his favourite chair. The chair now hangs from the wall of the Thirsk Museum, but for many years it remained at the Busby Stoop Inn. Many visitors to the inn scoffed at the curse and some of them even went as far as to sit in Busby’s chair. Some of them were dead within just a few hours: Busby Stoop's Cursed Chair.
