The spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, author of The Fall of the House of Usher and other "horror stories", continues to live both in American literature and in the house in Baltimore, where the writer spent his youth in the 1830s.
They say that the narrow two-story brick house at 23 Northern Army Street is crawling with ghosts.
Even local criminal gangs avoid this place in the impoverished area and try not to show up here again.
In 1968, the police were investigating a burglary. Arriving, they saw a dim light on the first floor, which slowly rose upward, then appeared on the second floor, and then in the attic. However, when they entered the house, no one was there.
Even in broad daylight, the house is uncomfortable. In one of the rooms hangs a gloomy portrait of Poe's wife in a coffin. Her melancholic gaze follows visitors as they walk around the room.
Locals also reported seeing a ghostly figure at a table on the second floor, although Po usually worked in the attic. His strange obsession with premature burial led to his being admitted to a mental institution.
The caretaker has encountered intense poltergeist activity many times, and it seems that the strange phenomena mostly occur in the bedroom that belonged to Poe's grandmother. There, doors and windows opened and closed on their own, someone invisible slapped visitors on the shoulder, and someone's voices were heard.
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Parapsychological researchers also reported seeing the ghost of a plump, gray-haired woman in vintage robes gliding smoothly through the rooms.
The master of creepy stories, perhaps, would be proud that his parents frighten him with the ghost of children who are capricious and behave disobediently. Ironically, Edgar Allan Poe turned into a fearsome ghost of Baltimore.