The Secret of the Devil's Chair. Everyone who sat on it soon died (5 photos)

If you do not know the history of this chair, stored in the Museum Valladolid, then from the outside it will seem plain and completely ordinary chair.





Perhaps there is someone who will feel the temptation untie the tape connecting the armrests to sit in it ... But this because not everyone knows his story.

Grim Events Associated With This Mysterious Item furniture, can shake the confidence of even the most notorious skeptics. Because these stories defy any logical explanation.

So what kind of chair is this, in which over the past 120 years no man dared to sit down? Is there some kind of a curse? Is it possible that the Devil himself had a hand in its creation?

Talented student

The history of this chair began almost 5 centuries ago, far 1550, from a Spanish student named Andrés de Proas. He always dreamed of becoming a doctor, so when he grew up, he went to study in Medical University of Valladolid, considered the best in the whole country.

At first, Andres showed no talent in surgery, which interested him most, but after a couple of years of study, the 22-year-old the student suddenly began to demonstrate a refined technique and extensive knowledge in anatomy that surprised even his teachers.



University of Valladolid, photo from the 1910s

Everyone was surprised at the progress of the young man, considering him the most gifted of all students. Andres was destined for a great future. A at the same time, in Valladolid, domestic animals and then humans...

house by the river

At first, people were even a little glad that from the streets vagrants and beggars began to disappear, but when a 9-year-old boy disappeared, the city began to panic, and the authorities finally took up the search offender.

When residents were interviewed, it turned out that no one had seen nothing suspicious, except for a woman who earned on life by washing things in the river Pisuerga. She reported that sometimes the water turned red right before her eyes...



Bridge in the city of Cabezón de Pisuerga across the Pisuerga River

The authorities, oddly enough, listened to the words of the woman, deciding look at the houses upstream the river. Andres lived in one of them. When the authorities entered his dwelling, they were horrified by what they saw.

Devilish Experiments

Now it became clear how Andres honed his skills, because that his house was more like a mortuary, and there were paintings on the walls, depicting human anatomy in great detail.

But what does the chair have to do with all this? When the young man was arrested and interrogated, he stated that these his terrible deeds were inspired by the Devil himself. Allegedly, he gave him knowledge when Andres sat down in a chair, and in return a student brought him victims.



"Ambroise Pare" by artist James Bertrand, 1860s

According to the student, this chair was given to him by a certain necromancer for Andrés saving him from the Pisuerga river. Among other things de Proas added:

- If any other person sits in this chair, he will die in 3 days.

Ultimately, Andres was executed, and the property of the former the student was sold under the hammer. But a few things, including this chair, were left without buyers, so it went to gather dust in a warehouse University.

History repeats itself

The chair sat in a warehouse for almost 250 years, until in 1890 the janitor didn’t look in there, it was then that he caught the eye of this "wonderful chair" The man decided that it was useless to overgrow furniture web, and took him to his closet to use for its intended purpose.

Three days later he was found dead in his chair. Soon there was hired another janitor. I think you can easily guess what happened to him happened. A man was found in the same chair exactly 3 days later...



A visitor to the Museum of Valladolid next to the "Devil's Chair", which can be seen in room number 14

Only after two deaths one of the employees of the University decided to study the history of the chair and soon found out that it belonged to Andres de Proas. It was decided to hang the chair from the ceiling in order to no one thought to sit in it.

It was removed only 60 years later, in 1950, when it was broadcast to the Museum of Valladolid. Since then, the chair, which received prothe name "Armchair" Devil", is exhibited there, but with one obligatory condition - no one must take off the red ribbon and, moreover, get into it ...

Would you dare to do so?