WHERE DID THE MYSTERIOUS POE VISITOR GO?
Posted on January 19th, 2010 by Joshua Gee
A decades-old mystery might have ended last night, yet we are none the wiser for it. Who is the shadowy figure who shows up at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave every year? And why did he (or she, or they, or it) not appear last night?
Filed under: Edgar Allan PWNAGE, NEWSBLEED
Why would Sam Porpora tell a lie that would be so easily disproved?
Anyways, I’ll probably visit Baltimore every year on Jan. 19th to pay my respects when I have the money for it.
That’s funny, the man in black?
I just read about him randomly in my History Textbook. Ironic…
The man who visits EGP’s grave?
No one ever said he dressed in black.
Damn, I meant EAP’s grave.
That’s nice. Visiting his grave I mean.
He does dress in black-It’s been around for years, this ritual. Somewhere around like, since his death, I think.
No, since around the 1960s, Creeps, read up, if you don’t know that, how are we supposed to know if you’re telling the truth about him dressing in black?
Because, that’s about the only part I remember from it’s special paragraph of the ritual. . .*
I just reread the article, nothing about dressing in black…
Shadowy Figure. Research it, they’re always in black!!
But there’s nothing supernatural about this.
JUST RESEARCH IT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW IF YOU’RE RIGHT OR WRONG!?
If I’m right and you don’t know, I can add that to my list of how girls are smarter than guys…
Ahem…
I’m right. Period.
There are shadowy figures who dress in black, but there is no person who dresses in black and visits in Poe’s grave. And whoever they are only visited from around the 1960s.
And your list is probably very short.
Oh, and boys were educated more than girls in the olden times, so that’s another account you were mistaken on.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, refer to the original discussion.
Research it.
Shaddup.
I know that! Because men wrongly thought women were stupid and could not handle such teachings and therefore stayed at home doing housework, I KNOW, I KNOW!
There were smart women, but men are chromosomally smarter than women.
Creeps, give up, it’s a scientific fact.
In what way?
They were blessed with more gray matter and a higher potential for learning. Now, it’s true that there are many women who are smarter than many men, but boys are able to be smarter, and many use the full potential, is all I’m saying. Girls don’t have the brain capacity as smart as a boy using the full brain capacity available to him.
So you’re saying boys have better memory and ability to learn?
Where do you guys learn this stuff?
We research it.
CHEAT. I’m doing this out of pure memory.
UNFAIR-Then again, that’s kinda expected.
I can’t search, my parents, like, blocked every google search I do.
Use a proxy. Also, there are other matters in this world that prevent girls from reaching full potential, in turn making males dominant in intelligence, and it is in the form of two words that describe a horrible Canadian singer that looks like a girl.
Justin. Bieber.
He’s terribly stupid.
His name comes on how?
There’s a large amount of asshole fangirls who compare him to awesome people.
Twilight does a damn close job, though.
One time, I saw som stupid troll/Jonas Brothers Fangirl compared Jonas Brothers to Metallica, going as far as calling the Jonas Brothers better than Metallica.
What? She’s probably never even heard a Metallica song, seeing as she’s a girl who listens to the Jonas Brothers.
My name is Jonas…
Most girls don’t like rock, okay. I should know, until I did Guitar Hero(Like, sixth grade christmas) I hated rock music. ‘cept the Beatles, of course, that was fifth grade.
The Beatles is technically pop.
Really?
Nope, this was on the actual comments page for Enter Sandman. Also, Beatles back in the ’60s is like N’Sync in the ’90s.
Yeah, but compare them to The Rolling Stones at that time period. They’re both British, but The Rolling Stones were way more rock-oriented.
I’m confused. Isn’t there a type of music called Rock and Roll?
Yes, but it’s not what you think it is, rock and roll is like Elvis, which is called Rockabilly today. Don’t confuse rockabilly with psychobilly because psychobilly is more modern music like rockabilly, but it’s like horror punk, it’s about zombies and what not.
Rockabilly is awesome, but I prefer psychobilly definitely.
Then there’s everything else, like punk, a louder, faster form of rock and roll, often with lyrics expressing strong political or personal opinions, metal, which infuses dissonant harmonies, strongly distorted instruments, and often unintelligible, vulgar, or strangely sung lyrics to convey opinions, and grunge, which is a fusion of punk and metal, with distorted instruments, stop-start techniques, sludgy sounds, and self-deprecating or sarcastic lyrics.
I like rock music. My lil bro is gradually getting my into AC/DC and all kinds on metal. Although I still find liquid metal a tad unusual. Take it from an unusual girl.
*of
What kind of metal bands? Thrash metal, death metal, black metal, all sorts. What bands have you been listening to?
I got lost at the first sentence, DJ, that’s supposed to mean what exactly?(oblivious to the world)
It’s on Sirius Satellite Radio The Boneyard. Bands like Aerosmith, Kiss, Rush, and Black Sabbath. It has more than that but I’m normally looking away when it show whos playing.
Huh.
I just took a quiz on whether or not I’d survive a vampire invasion.
The results were, you’ll LIVE, you’ll DIE or you’re evil!
I died.
Wow.
Yeah, Apparently, there was no become a vampire result, so that’s what happened. I’d better correct that quiz and make my own!
Kewl.
yup. I’m gonna make it after I finish the one I’m making now.
Awesome.
Listening to more Owl City. It’s only one guy!? How does he do it! I also found out that there’s other songs he made. Also making a story in my quizilla account. Kinda like my Vampirically Sweet series, only slightly different.
Notice on the music vid for Fireflies he’s playing an electric piano. Those are fun. You can play drums, violin, guitar, and more on it.
Yeah. I like keyboards. I have two. Third is broken, and old, so it doesn’t count.
Creeps, it’s called a loop machine, a synthesizer, and a garage. Not that hard to do.
I have two keyboards they both have many different modes.
What the hell was that on my finger?
…….Key Lime pie. yum.
ps this article was posted via
iPhOnE.
@ Creeps: Key Lime Pie is yummy.
@ Mr. Gee: Kewl.
IPHONE! I waish I had one. Wait, so iPhone can go on internet too?
…….Great. But that’s cool. And interesting.
Yes Creeps, they can go on the internet, IT’S NOT THAT NEW. God, it took me all my will power not to call you an idiot.
Well, Sor-ree! I’ve been living in my palm pre for the past, what. Half a year or more now!(My computer now, since my dad turned my cell-phone off. now all I can do is txt)
My Mum has a Palm Pre.
Hi Creeps.
Hi Creeps. Long time now see, eh?
Hi spock.
Yeah. GO CHECK MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL! YOu can see me and hear my voice!(Chris laughed and said I sounded like a guy.)
tonights full moon will be biggest and brightest.
Goodness gracious! I have this song stuck in my head. ?”It’s the end of the world as we know it. It’s the end of the world as we know it. It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!”?
Isn’t that from the Chicken Little movie from a few years ago?
No, that song is old as hell, Creeps.
In related new, I can’t seem to stop listening to this http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?rows=36&cols=36&id=jt7AF2RCMhg&mode=&startZoom=1
It’s by R.E.M. and was released in 1987.
R.E.M.? I can’t stop playing their “The One I Love” on my DS.
Kewl.
That is, when I was allowed to play it.
Hi I’m sort of new to this site can someone help me out?
Hi, I’m sort of new . Help?
There is no help to be given other than this: Don’t be stupid. This is my computer teacher’s favorite rule, and possibly, only rule. For one rule, i’ts a pretty wide hitting rule.
Alright then thats all I need. Who was Edgar Allen Poe anyways?
I believe that’s breaking the rule. If you do not know who Edgar was, you must leave at once, check out a book of his stories at the library, read them, then come back once you know more. All I’ll tell you is that he had a lonely and death filled life.
I’ll just look for it on the web…loads easyer.
forgive me and my terrible grammar.
No, the rules specifically say, “GO TO THE LIBRARY AND LOOK FOR THE DARKEST CORNER MARKED THE TWILIGHT ZONE. READ EDGAR ALLEN POE”. I’m not kidding
Wow poor guy…and some people think they have been torchered just because they have to much homework…they need to hear his story.
i just read the rules and i saw it now sorry.
Uuum, Chris, lay off.
Edgar Allan Poe was a pretty famous horror poet/author. Apparently, this tradition mentioned in the post has been on since he was laid in his grave, or something like that.
The Tell-Tale heart is one of my favorites. That and The(what is it again?) The Pit. I think.
The rules also say “IF YOU CLAIM TO HAVE SEEN THESE RULES, YOU ARE A HORRIBLE LIAR, THESE RULES HAVE NEVER BEEN WRITTEN.”
The rules are all in my head.
Ehm, my Com is too slow.
Chris, you’re such a retard.
You’re supposed to say that WAAAAY after the second rule stated.
How about no, what the fuck are you talking about? Simply telling him he’s shit at lying and why.
Well, that’s how I do it. I tell them truth WAY after the last lie.
Well, maybe that is in the rules somewhere.
The Pit and the Pendulum.
I liked Murders of Rue Morgue the best.
Chris, don’t the rules also state, “Thou shalt not think Green Day is the greatest band in the world”?
That is also true. Green Day is pretty decent, but it devolved as it went into the 21st century. 1999 was when they were okay.
Also, Adolescents – I Hate Children is an awesome song. I would so put that on a CD and put it on during my elective at school, I was put in art for my elective and it’s full of 6th grade brats because the fuckhead counselor put me in there against my free will. I hate 6th graders.
I liked “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Masque of the Red Death”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart” and I still do.
Oh, I’ve readd those. Cask of Amontillado sounds like he was heartless in doing such, bricking that guy in! Then again, he had good reasons to.
I’m making a mix CD to play when I go for long car rides. Gonna be awesome.
I just listen to my favorite station and sing along with the songs I like.
Which are most likely terrible. No offense, your taste and my taste just don’t match.
It’s a variety. They just ask people in Chicago or wherever their station is whatr they want to listen to and they play it.
People love lady gaga……..
I don’t.
I miss Sid Vicious.
I know, I didn’t mean you.
You live like fifty states away from my, don’t even get me started on counties here.
Who’s Sid Vicious?
Sid Vicious was the bassist for The Sex Pistols. He really wasn’t all that good, but he was so hardcore no one cared, and THAT’S WHY HE’S AWESOME.
And you say GIRLS think about sex more…..XP
Uuh…..okay, so you like him because you think he’s underadmired?
No, he was so hardcore that everybody loved him even if he wasn’t that good of a bassist.
And so what? Name your band The Sex Pistols, it’s better than Cannibal Corpse or Maggot Stuffed Cunt.
…..And you bring that up of course.
Loophole
Gwar, however, is the best band name ever.
What now?O_o
Look up Gwar. They kick ass. Why do you always act confused?
…..Why does everybody always have to ask when they have a reason right in front of them I mean seriously!
because, I stay in my room all afternoon reading my books, and at school, about all I learn is the stuff they teach us, and how stupid guys are and how Brian is a perv. >:( You expect me to be what, a fountain of endless knowledge?
Yeah, but you always act like “Huh?” when you can just say, “Oh, I don’t know who they are, I’ll look them up.”
And by the by, I’m a fountain of worthless knowledge.
Cuz I’m too lazy to look them up. Just because I made an account on google doesn’t mean I useit’s search engine.
I’m a fountain of stupidity. And hyperactivity. And I think I might have ADHD, but mom won’t take me to get tested.
Sometimes I act like I have ADHD, but I don’t really. And just short attention span, hyper, I don’t say, “Yeah, I’m ADHD, I’m on RItalin.”
I listen to what people say, but sometimes I miss catches of what they say.(which is why I correct, and Why i correct wrong.) Like, if they say something like problem fourteen, I think they say four. And I’m hyper even without sugar. Of course.
That’s called selective hearing disorder, you should ask your doctor about it.
I am “California Uber Alles, by the Dead Kennedys
a song about how much governor brown (of california, around early ’80’s) was like Hitler. it used sarcasm and ironies to say that Brown wanted to control the U.S. and make people “jog for the master race, and always wear a happy face.” People have called the Dead Kennedys communists, but they really just speak out for what they beleive in. You are just like that, speaking out for what you beleive in. You are funny and sarcastic.”
Been on quizilla or something? I’m doing a Seven Minutes in Hev, as usual.(The emo guyslook cute, okay, I cant hep it!)
Okay, somehow, I read eating instead of hearing. Why does that always happen to me?
We don’t go to the doctor much. I mean, I did go to the acute center once, but that doesn’t count.
In English class we’re reading Hop-Frog. Never have I been more disturbed by a story until I read Hop-Frog.
What’s that? A EAP story?
Creeps, you read hearing as eating because you’re a fatass.
Shut UP, I don’t know Edgar Allen Poe stories all that well, and since this is the EAP page, and there was no conversation currently occuring, I was just asking why she said that here. Dick.
Chris, please be nice. Yes, Creeps, it is. One part of it is quite gruesome.
Hm. I gotta find that.
Distracted, found this page.
Man, Green Day used to kick so much ass.When did Billie swap those ripped jeans, dirty shirts, ratty blazers, and scruffy hair for that stupid fucking tie, pyramid belts, skinny jeans, and eyeliner?
I dunno, when he got a record deal, a contract, and a fat salary.
The record companies usually change what muscicians wear and play when they hire them. That’s what happened to MCR. I saw their Helena video, that must have been a loooot of changes to get them to play Pop. Uuugh. (shudder)
OH, btw, I found the excerpt in my History textbook about Edgar Allan Poe’s visitor, and IT SAYS HERE:
Every year a mysterious figure DRESSED IN BLACK celebrates Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday. He leaves three roses on the author’s grave at 3:00A.M.
The puzzling tradition began in 1949, exactly 100 years after Poe’s death. In 1993, a new black-coated visitor took over the tradition. The person who began the ritual was ill-and later died in 1999.
Although many witnesses watch the ritual each year, none ask the visitor his name. Poe’s fans have always liked mysteries.
I remember arguing with DJ that the figure was not dressed in black. Here’s Truthed PROOF, right there.
No, you said it was some sort of creature called a Shadowy Figure.
I meant how MR. Gee described it in the post. Read it again.
Man, I had the greatest 4/20 today, it was amazing. I got cottonmouth like a fucker though.
And munchies, I’m super hungry. Dude, DJ, get a freaking Facebook, you won’t be a sellout if you do, it’s called being fashionably late, just like if there’s a punk show, always go like an hour in, or in this case, couple years.
YOU HAD YOUR FIRST 4/20! GOOD FOR YOU!!!
I can’t get one, my mom has one and you can’t have more than one account on one email.
Dude, don’t you remember that email address I set up for you? Yeah, use it. If you forgot, login details on the Safe Haven.
Whatever, I might if I want to.
SERIOUSLY, 4/20 DETAILS!
Went to my friends house, right, we were walking around in the rain, looking for hot boxes, but the one we wanted to go to was locked, so we had to walk around, looking for a good hot box, when his “sister” comes by and he sells her some weed for 10 dollars I think, so we go over to the park and talk with some homies for a while, leave, then go to his dealer’s house and get some more and then we find a laundry room behind an apartment complex. We take two drags from his pipe and walk around, and go back to the park when a cop pulls up onto the grass and we’re just standing there like”Fuuuuuck, let’s go the other way.” So, we go looking for his friends house. We walk around some more, and around 4:16 we finally get inside and we just smoke weed in a circle, passing the pipe. Eventually, my eyes are getting red, so I try to put on eyedrops and I’m failing, cuz I’m so fricking high, so my friend puts them in for me, with some difficulty, because I’m laughing my ass off. so, our eyes are good to go and we’re pretty high, we walk out again and go the the park and hang out. We meet up with some more of his homies and we go walk down to Ace Hardware to get some spray paint. A bunch of us are just at the front of the store, by the door when we all sack some munchies, I stole a pack of Starburst, for my cotton mouth. We leave and walk back to the neighborhood. We sit around outside, I stopped smoking weed by then because we didn’t have eyedrops and my mom had to pick me up in a couple hours, so they smoke two more bowls and we walk back to the park and hang around there for the rest of the day. At around 6 something, we leave back to the house before his mom gets home and so we eat two burritos each, but I was still hungry. Then my mom comes, drops me off at my house, and then I eat two bowls of Froot Loops in milk and covered in syrup, and a burger that I made, which wasn’t much, considering my hunger. I should’ve eaten the fried chicken in the fridge. That would’ve been good for my burger. Then I went to sleep and woke up hungry, my munchies were still going on.
NICE!!!
I just tuned into Fuse, and it’s Green Day Earth Day, they’re doing countdowns of Green Day’s best videos.
I tuned in at Number 11, Wake Me Up When September Ends, and I was pissed, but then Number 10 came on, I’m watching it now, nevermind, just ended, but it’s MINORITY! AWESOME!
Number 9: Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Boo.
Commercial. Ice-T’s on the Warped Tour, along with 3OH!3 and the All-American Rejects, FUCK, but the bright side is NOFX, Bad Religion, Pennywise, Rise Against, Underoath, and blink-182 will be there, hopefully playing Dude Ranch-era songs.
Number 8: American Idiot. SHITFUCKBALLSCUNT, actually, I kinda like it. On a side note, I know it’s Earth Day and all, but they really should’ve done this Tuesday, seeing how it’s a green day and all.
Number 7: 21 Guns. FUCK YOU ALL! Billie looks like a chick in a hat.
Number 6: St. Jimmy. I couldn’t expect anything less after 21 Guns. Although it is pretty cool.
Number 5: BASKET CASE! HELLS TO THE YEAH!
Number 4: 21st Century Breakdown. BOO-FUCKING-HOO!
Number 3: It better be fucking Longview to make up for everything else… Longview… Longview… and it’s EAST JESUS NOWHERE! And the award for the most suicide-prompting countdown goes to… FUSE!
Number 2: Holiday. A semi-good song, anyway. Is it just me, or does the Holiday vid seem to lead right into the Boulevard one?
AND NUMBER 1: I BEG YOU, PLEASE PICK A SONG FROM DOOKIE, OR INSOMNIAC, OR WARNING, OR EVEN NIMROD, I BEG YOU!…
Jesus of Suburbia.
I’m crying. Literally CRYING about the Top 10 countdown. This SUCKS so fucking much. I fucking hate this countdown.
Dude, you should smoke some weed and just chill, man. So what, they have a shitty countdown, whatever. At least you’re alive, man.
I know, it’s just PISSING ME OFF! It just irritates me to NO FUCKING END that almost NO ONE voted for the CLASSICS!
Dude, calm the fuck down and accept that the world isn’t the way we want it to be. Dude, I’m pretty sure that weed gave me like super philosophical powers, man, I got someone to cry tears of joy when I talked to them because I was deep and shit. Insane, man.
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