In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious and near death on the streets of Baltimore—wearing someone else’s clothes and muttering incoherently. Just days later, he was gone. No one knows where he had been, how he got there, or what truly caused his death. In this episode, Will and Steven descend into the fog of history to unravel one of literature’s greatest mysteries: what really happened to the master of the macabre?
We’ll explore the many theories—alcohol poisoning, rabies, foul play, political kidnapping, even murder. Each one is as strange as Poe’s own stories. Hospital records vanished. Witness accounts contradict. And the man himself? He never regained the clarity to explain what befell him. It’s a real-life Gothic tale that feels torn from the pages of Poe’s darkest work.
Was his death a tragic accident… or the final, unsolved mystery of a man who wrote nightmares for a living? Join us as we follow the ghostly trail of Poe’s last days and discover why the truth might be even more unsettling than fiction.
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