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01/31/2003 Archived Entry: "Baltimore: The mystery of the 'Poe Toaster'"

NON POLITICAL, COOL STORY: Was I repeating myself there? There's a 54 year old mystery in Baltimore. Every year since at least 1949 on Edgar Allan Poe's birthday a mysterious stranger clad in a black cloak visits the writer's grave and leaves three roses and half a bottle of cognac. For the past several years people have watched him from surrounding buildings perform the ritual and then quietly leave.

No one has ever approached him, his nickname is the uninspiring "Poe Toaster", and some people are fiercely protective of him and his secret identity.

Read on. For more info on Poe's grave visit here.

I'll bet Bayliss and Pembleton would have found out who he was...but they wouldn't have revealed his secret. If you get that reference, you have good taste.