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Why the Padgett Chair Kept Turning Up at Burned Buildings
Why the Padgett Chair Kept Turning Up at Burned Buildings
Cold and unexplained: an oak armchair was found upright on ice with no footprints at 9°F, and the same chair turned up after at least three different fires - sometimes a quarter mile away, sometimes in a churchyard - with officials noting it was “deliberately removed prior to ignition.” Who moved it, and why did it repeatedly escape flames that consumed the hall it belonged to?
In this episode, we lay out the documented trail of the Padgett Chair from newspaper mentions to conservator reports and official fire records, following dates…
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