WHERE DID THE MYSTERIOUS POE VISITOR GO?

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?

113 Responses to “WHERE DID THE MYSTERIOUS POE VISITOR GO?”

  1. 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.

  2. That’s funny, the man in black?
    I just read about him randomly in my History Textbook. Ironic…

  3. The man who visits EGP’s grave?
    No one ever said he dressed in black.

  4. Damn, I meant EAP’s grave.

  5. That’s nice. Visiting his grave I mean.

  6. He does dress in black-It’s been around for years, this ritual. Somewhere around like, since his death, I think.

  7. 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?

  8. Because, that’s about the only part I remember from it’s special paragraph of the ritual. . .*

  9. I just reread the article, nothing about dressing in black…

  10. Shadowy Figure. Research it, they’re always in black!!

  11. But there’s nothing supernatural about this.

  12. 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…

  13. 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.

  14. And your list is probably very short.

  15. 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.

  16. Research it.
    Shaddup.

  17. 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!

  18. There were smart women, but men are chromosomally smarter than women.

  19. Creeps, give up, it’s a scientific fact.

  20. In what way?

  21. 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.

  22. So you’re saying boys have better memory and ability to learn?
    Where do you guys learn this stuff?

  23. We research it.

  24. CHEAT. I’m doing this out of pure memory.

  25. UNFAIR-Then again, that’s kinda expected.
    I can’t search, my parents, like, blocked every google search I do.

  26. 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.

  27. He’s terribly stupid.
    His name comes on how?

  28. There’s a large amount of asshole fangirls who compare him to awesome people.

  29. Twilight does a damn close job, though.

  30. 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.

  31. 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…

  32. 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.

  33. The Beatles is technically pop.

  34. Really?

  35. Nope, this was on the actual comments page for Enter Sandman. Also, Beatles back in the ’60s is like N’Sync in the ’90s.

  36. 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.

  37. I’m confused. Isn’t there a type of music called Rock and Roll?

  38. 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.

  39. 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.

  40. 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.

  41. *of

  42. What kind of metal bands? Thrash metal, death metal, black metal, all sorts. What bands have you been listening to?

  43. I got lost at the first sentence, DJ, that’s supposed to mean what exactly?(oblivious to the world)

  44. 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.

  45. 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.

  46. Wow.

  47. Yeah, Apparently, there was no become a vampire result, so that’s what happened. I’d better correct that quiz and make my own!

  48. Kewl.

  49. yup. I’m gonna make it after I finish the one I’m making now.

  50. Awesome. :D

  51. 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.

  52. 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.

  53. Yeah. I like keyboards. I have two. Third is broken, and old, so it doesn’t count. :D

  54. Creeps, it’s called a loop machine, a synthesizer, and a garage. Not that hard to do.

  55. I have two keyboards they both have many different modes.
    What the hell was that on my finger?
    …….Key Lime pie. yum.

  56. ps this article was posted via
    iPhOnE.

  57. @ Creeps: Key Lime Pie is yummy.
    @ Mr. Gee: Kewl. :)

  58. IPHONE! I waish I had one. Wait, so iPhone can go on internet too?
    …….Great. But that’s cool. And interesting. :)

  59. 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.

  60. 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)

  61. My Mum has a Palm Pre.

  62. Hi Creeps.

  63. Hi Creeps. Long time now see, eh? :)

  64. Hi spock. :)

  65. Yeah. GO CHECK MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL! YOu can see me and hear my voice!(Chris laughed and said I sounded like a guy.)

  66. tonights full moon will be biggest and brightest.

  67. 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!”?

  68. Isn’t that from the Chicken Little movie from a few years ago?

  69. 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

  70. It’s by R.E.M. and was released in 1987.

  71. R.E.M.? I can’t stop playing their “The One I Love” on my DS.

  72. Kewl. :)

  73. That is, when I was allowed to play it. :(

  74. Hi I’m sort of new to this site can someone help me out?

  75. Hi, I’m sort of new . Help?

  76. 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.

  77. Alright then thats all I need. Who was Edgar Allen Poe anyways?

  78. 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.

  79. I’ll just look for it on the web…loads easyer.
    forgive me and my terrible grammar.

  80. 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

  81. Wow poor guy…and some people think they have been torchered just because they have to much homework…they need to hear his story.

  82. i just read the rules and i saw it now sorry.

  83. 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.

  84. 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.

  85. Ehm, my Com is too slow.

  86. Chris, you’re such a retard.
    You’re supposed to say that WAAAAY after the second rule stated.

  87. How about no, what the fuck are you talking about? Simply telling him he’s shit at lying and why.

  88. Well, that’s how I do it. I tell them truth WAY after the last lie.
    Well, maybe that is in the rules somewhere.

  89. 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”?

  90. 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.

  91. I liked “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Masque of the Red Death”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart” and I still do.

  92. 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.

  93. I’m making a mix CD to play when I go for long car rides. Gonna be awesome.

  94. I just listen to my favorite station and sing along with the songs I like.

  95. Which are most likely terrible. No offense, your taste and my taste just don’t match.

  96. 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……..

  97. I don’t.
    I miss Sid Vicious.

  98. 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?

  99. 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.

  100. And you say GIRLS think about sex more…..XP
    Uuh…..okay, so you like him because you think he’s underadmired?

  101. 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.

  102. …..And you bring that up of course. ;) Loophole

  103. Gwar, however, is the best band name ever.

  104. What now?O_o

  105. Look up Gwar. They kick ass. Why do you always act confused?

  106. …..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?

  107. 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.

  108. 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.

  109. 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.”

  110. 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.

  111. That’s called selective hearing disorder, you should ask your doctor about it.

  112. 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.”

  113. 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.

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