Who is the poe toaster
Edgar Allan Poe : Legend of The Poe Toaster
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hey guys while my channel might be
predominantly focused on music I also
think it's important to discuss and
explore the artists who influenced the
music we know and love I'm in Baltimore
today and as you may have noticed one of
the city's most famous residents is
predominantly featured on our bookshelf
he's my wife's favorite author and one
of mine as well but before we toast to
mr. Poe I'd like to share with you all
the mysteries surrounding his death
Edgar Allan Poe was last seen on October
3rd 18-49 in the Fells Point
neighborhood of Baltimore specifically
outside of a pub that you can still
visit today the horse you came in on he
was looking out of sorts to say the
least wearing clothes that were in his
own and babbling incoherently when he
was found by a man named Joseph Walker
who took him to a nearby hospital he
never became coherent enough to explain
what happened to him and died a few days
later on October 7th 18-49 without a
concrete cause of death
theories ranged wildly from cholera to
something called cupen a form of voter
fraud in which random individuals are
captured by election gangs given alcohol
and a change of clothes and forced to
vote multiple times for a particular
candidate long after his demise the
debate continues and interestingly
enough Edgar Allen Poe's final resting
place wasn't so finally post funeral was
held the day after his death and he was
laid to rest in a cheap handless
cushionless coffin without a headstone
at this spot in the rear corner of the
cemetery you see Poe's cousin Nielsen
had commissioned a marble headstone for
the site but it was destroyed in a freak
train wreck before reaching Baltimore
instead after the funeral pose grave was
marked only with a small stone reading
the number 80 in keeping with the mist
it's not entirely clear what the number
refers to over 15 years after his death
enough funds were raised to give this
poet the monument he deserved
after trouble locating Poe's body after
the cemeteries headstones had for some
reason been changed around in 1875 he
was relocated to the front of the
cemetery beneath this beautiful monument
which unfortunately bears the wrong
birthdate but at least he finally had a
monument right about 10 years later the
remains of his beloved wife Virginia
were relocated to the same site to rest
together for eternity but that's not the
end of the story for over 70 years a
mysterious figure only known as the POE
toaster visits this site every year on
Edgar Allan Poe's birthday every year on
Poe's birthday January 19 a figure in an
all-black outfit with a white scarf and
hat would leave three red roses and a
bottle of cognac on posed grave it said
that he visited the grave beginning in
the 1930s or 40s and continued through
the 1990s when a note left behind
indicated the torch had been passed
perhaps to a family member the visits
continued for about a decade but the
last sighting of the POE toaster was in
2009 though no one has seen the toaster
since we would like to take this
opportunity to raise a glass to mr. Poe
for all the people he inspired after
keeping us hooked on his mysteries long
after his death
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