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A certain chair at the Busby Stoop Inn near Sand Hutton,
Thirsk was haunted by the ghost of Thomas Busby, who was a coiner and drunkard. Its reported that he murdered his father-in-law Daniel Auty with a hammer, after a dispute about some money. He was arrested, tried and condemned to death by hanging.

After his execution his corpse was suspended in chains from a gibbet erected at the lonely crossroads opposite to where the Busby Stoop pub now stands. The inn is meant to take it's name from the post or stoop on which his remains was supended from.

The inn was said to be haunted by his ghost, infact it was a certain chair at the inn that gained a sinister reputation during World War 2 it was said to be the favoured seat of the ghost (Busby's chair as it became known by) and pilots thought it unlucky to sit there. Its said that any pilot who did dared to sit in that chair never came back. Later during the 1970s its reported that there was some fatal accidents were linked with this chair, which resulted
in the landlord asking for the chair to be removed to a Museum, to be hung out of harms way to prevent anymore "accidents ?"
Busby's ghost is also reported to be seen "hanging in the air" from
the spot where he was hanged outside the pub on moonless nights with a noose around its neck and the head at an unusual angle.