So, as it should happen, one night while The Steel Knives were playing at “I Brewed It My Way” in Pittston PA. We met a gentleman who said he made Ouija boards. He also mentioned to us a folklore tale about Devil’s furniture made of stone. He told us if you sit on this type of furniture bad things would happen. If you should be so brave as to sit on it three times, someone would die. This man also revealed to us that there is a Devils couch in Eckley PA. He sparked our interest. Ed and I liked to investigate anything related to Ghosts , Aliens, or the occult. Now we have to take a road trip…
We decided as long as we were heading that way we would stop at the old mining village in Weatherly, PA. This was on April 5, 2009. The weather was already starting to be nice and spring was in the air. The drive wasn’t too excessive and it was relatively easy to find. Plenty of signs, as there isn’t very many tourist attractions except this 19th-century mining town. The population in the Mining Village was 12. There have also been rumors that the village was haunted.
Short drive to Devils Couch.
As it’s been said “The tale grows in the telling”. So this is some of the information I found…
“The Stone Couch: One legend tells of a rock formation where a grief-stricken mother’s ghost cries for a sick baby who died waiting for a stagecoach. Another legend say’s a Native American woman placed a curse on the stone couch when her infant died on it. And yet another tale takes place during the flu pandemic of 1918. A man driving his sick wife and child to the hospital, knowing they weren’t going to make it, made a couch of stones for them to rest on.
If you sit on the couch it is believed to bring bad luck or marks on your skin.
If you sit again, someone you love will die.
If you are brave enough or even foolish enough To sit a third time, you will die!
Ed and I both sat on the couch one time. I’m not sure if anything happened because as the saying goes, “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have any!”
The Devils Chair folklore actually started in the nineteenth century . There were stone or concrete seats placed in cemeteries, for mourners to rest. They referred to them as “mourning chairs” or “monubench.” Overtime misinterpreted, it resulted into Urban Legend Folklore.
Fun fact: In Shropshire, England, in a place called “The Stiperstones” there is a natural rock formation labeled the Devil’s Chair. Old British folklore claimed the Devil dropped rocks from an apron or held gatherings of evil spirits there.
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