The Chair in the Snow: How Minner Falls Blamed a Ghost

Dark Myths and Legends · Oct 9, 2026 · 20m

The Chair in the Snow: How Minner Falls Blamed a Ghost

Cold, controlled dread: a lone high-backed wooden chair sat upright in four inches of packed snow with no footprints, drag marks, or tire tracks for sixty yards around it - and the town that owned it had spent eighty-one years blaming a dead woman for three separate fires. Who put the chair there, and why did the legend outlive the evidence?

In this episode, we tell the story contained in the town records and the work of one retired schoolteacher, laying out the photograph, the archival discoveries, and the contradictions that kept the…