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The Chair of Death is a "cursed" two-hundred-year-old blue upholstered wing chair in the Blue Room of Baleroy Mansion in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia. Some say the chair once belonged to Napoleon. The previous owner of the chair and the mansion was George Meade Easby until 2005. Those who have supposedly died because of the chair include Paul Kimmons, a former curator. Including Kimmons, 4 people died after sitting in the chair and Meade then banned anyone from sitting in it. According to Easby, a ghost known as Amanda or Amelia entices people to sit in the chair. Steven Meade, the brother of General George Meade, is also said to haunt the house; it has been recorded that his portrait would fly off across the room and leave the hooks still attached to the wall.
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