There is probably no more mysterious figure in world literature than the American poet and writer Edgar Alan Poe. Mysticism, penetrating to the marrow of bones, shines through not only in his dark texts, but also in the circumstances of the last days of his life and mysterious facts that occurred after the death of the creator of the modern detective genre.
Before his death, Edgar Poe went insane
In late September 1849, Alan Poe was found in an alley in Baltimore in someone else's dirty clothes, agitated and half distraught. He died a week later without ever regaining his sanity.
Doctors noted that during the last days of his life he often shouted the name "Reynolds" and refused to take food and water.
However, after the death of Po, mysterious stories only increased. In 1860, the clairvoyant Lizzie Loten stated that she had written down poems dictated to her by Edgar Poe in a spiritualistic trance.
Edgar Poe's enigmatic fan
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Many witnesses who lived near the cemetery stated that they had repeatedly seen the ghost of the writer. Despite this, after the death of Alan Poe, since 1949, his grave has been annually visited by a mystical human figure, dressed in all black.
A person invariably came to the tombstone on the poet's birthday and left a bottle of cognac and flowers on the tombstone, having previously drunk one glass. Nobody managed to establish the identity of the mysterious visitor. The locals were afraid to approach the secret admirer and even speak to him from afar.
In 1999, a note appeared on the gravestone stating that the "black man" had died, and now the tradition will be continued by his direct heir.
It is worth mentioning the monument that the city municipality was going to erect for Alan. It was destroyed … by a train that went off the rails and crashed into the storage room of the cemetery.
Edgar Alan Poe was out of this world during his lifetime and remained so after death. In the minds of his contemporaries, and in our current perception, he forever remained in the image of a brilliant madman. Leading a dialogue with the black Raven, who knocked on his house.
Edgar Poe was always attracted to everything mysterious and mystical, even while working in the editorial office of the magazine, he was passionately carried away by cryptography and successfully deciphered the readers' cryptography on the pages of the magazine.
He managed to solve more than a hundred of the sent riddles. But no one still can solve its main riddle. The riddle of the poet, who himself happened to become, after death, one big, shrouded in darkness, mystery.