English Legends

Busby’s Stoop Chair displayed high on a museum wall, safely out of reach because of the deadly curse associated with it.

Busby’s Stoop Chair: Why No One Is Allowed to Sit in This Cursed Chair

Karen Cody / August 20, 2026

There’s an old wooden chair hanging high on a wall inside a small museum in North Yorkshire. At first glance, there’s nothing particularly frightening about it. It’s plain. Wooden. Worn with age. The kind of chair you might expect to find beside a fireplace in an old English pub. Except this one isn’t sitting on […]

Folklore

Bloody Bones: The Bogeyman That Waits Beneath the Water

Karen Cody / October 9, 2025

Bloodybones The Thing in the Cupboard The wind howled through the old house, rattling the windowpanes like bones. Maggie clutched her blanket and stared at the open door of the pantry. She’d begged her grandmother to close it, but the old woman only shook her head. “Best to leave it be,” she’d said. “You close