A "not haunted" chair in Oxfam went viral after it was found with a suspicious note on it.
A customer donated a vintage three-piece sofa and chairs to Oxfam on Smithdown Road, in Wavertree, last week. Despite manager, Kira Adams, saying how beautiful she thought the vintage wingback chair was, deputy manager, Rob was not convinced.
Rob said he thought the chair looked like it "belonged in a haunted house".
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Kira said: "A customer kindly donated a vintage three-piece suite to us last week, and while I thought it was beautiful, my deputy manager Rob was less convinced, and commented that it looked like it belonged in a haunted house. To reassure him, I printed a silly sign stating that the suite was definitely not haunted.
"The sign has proven popular with customers, and I’ve spotted one or two of them taking photos of it, but I was flabbergasted when Rob told me that he had seen the chair on Twitter and had been liked by hundreds of thousands of people."
Customer Heather Cowan (@hwardcowan) tweeted a photo of the vintage chair with the tongue-in-cheek sign and commented: "That’s definitely something a haunted chair would say…".
Since then the staff in Oxfam have watched as the number of likes and retweets skyrocket. The tweet received worldwide attention, and has received 1.4 million likes and 137,000 retweets.
Kira said: "I’d like to reiterate that despite what anyone on Twitter might think, the chair is definitely not haunted, cursed, or possessed by any kind of spirit, spook, or spectre – I swear."
The shop team are encouraging the public to take selfies on the famous chair in exchange for a small donation towards their current emergency appeal which aims to provide emergency food supplies to 23 million people in East Africa who are facing extreme hunger due to failed harvests.
