The Devil's Chair (urban legend)

In a typical example, local young people dare one another to visit the site, most often after dark, at midnight, or on some specified night such as Halloween or New Year's Eve.

Variously, the stories suggest the person brave enough to sit in the chair at such a time may be punished for impudence or rewarded for courage.

While the cemetery itself was established as a private burial ground in 1885, the legend of the chair is only documented for approximately thirty years.

It has become involved in "numerous legends of a type widely replicated across the U.S., especially in rural and small-town communities, and beloved of young people....

Some versions say that something dreadful will happen to the person so bold as to be seated in it at midnight (or on a particular evening, such as Halloween) -- a hand will emerge from the grave and drag the impious one down to the underworld.

In Bonaventure Cemetery located in Savannah, Georgia, the grave of famed music writer Johnny Mercer is formed in the style of one of these seats.

In Torcello, the "throne of Attila" was probably in fact a magistrate's seat; local legend claims that a girl who sits in it will be married within a year.