The mystery of the grave of Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe.The cursed poet, the macabre writer, the genius of science and the forerunner of detective novels...The wake of his legend is still present today thanks to his immortal works, and also, by that spirit where the tragic was mixed with the romantic profiling that figure that has always been so attractive to us.But the halo of mystery that he knew how to create around his work has extended beyond the death of the writer , and we want to focus on Mysterious today: on the mystery of the grave of Edgar Allan Poe.

You may also be one of the admirers who have devoured the books of Edgar Allan Poe, or a of people who remember that every January 19 marks one more year of the anniversary of this unforgettable writer.You may even have wanted to deepen your line of thought thanks to compilations of phrases by Edgar Allan Poe.But what you probably do not know is that, since the centenary of his death in 1949, someone has left year after year in his grave, a small and curious tribute to honor his memory: three roses and a bottle of conac .

The mystery halo of the Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe

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The grave of Edgar Allan Poe is located in Maryland, Baltimore.It is a rather simple slab in which a sculpted crow is found; the symbol that most He identifies his work thanks to the famous poem with the same name, "The Raven." But beyond these completely normal data, it is worth mentioning that there are many witnesses who have been able to see, year after year, a figure dressed in black making its way in the early hours of January 19 , with the aim of leaving three roses and a bottle of conac in the grave of Edgar Allan Poe.

There are years in which several teams of local televisions await strategically hidden in the cemetery in order to "hunt" that character , but they have never been able to find him directly.So much so, that there is nothing but testimonies of strange photographs with diffuse shadows … But what seems clear are those elegant gifts that rest at the foot of E's grave dgar Allan Poe in the morning.

The press thinks that it is not a single person.They maintain that since 1949, someone made the decision to perform this adventures of romantic dyes.Segun explain, it would be several people united for the same purpose and for the same admiration , who are colloquially called «Poe Toaster».The testimony of the old cemetery employee

The testimony of the old cemetery employee

The mystery of the grave of Edgar Allan Poe | Beyond death

His name is unknown, but this old cemetery manager where the remains of the writer, says that they were two people. A man began this custom in 1949, a tradition he kept until 1998 , the year he died and, therefore, no tribute was found in the tomb of Edgar Allan Poe.

Thereafter, the tradition was faithfully retaken by his son, who added a small change that everyone thanked: I leave small messages, encrypted letters in the style of Poe, something that raised even more expectation between the press and the fans of the «Poe Toaster» .

The sad thing about this story is that since 2010 has not repeated again Take this curious adventure that has given so much to talk about .Edgar Allan Poe's grave is empty again every January 19, the day of his anniversary.No one has ever left those three roses and the bottle of conac for Edgar Allan Poe's cursed soul...And surely I miss him, as did the press and Maryland residents accustomed since 1949 to this pleasant curiosity.

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