FtV – The Broken Hearted Ghost of Edgar Allan Poe

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

History, Paranormal, Ghosts, Folklore, Places & Travel, Monsters, Society & Culture, Legends, Newengland

4.8 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 63 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a Valentine’s Day stroll down Benefit Street in Providence, Rhode Island, to the Athenaeum in search of the brokenhearted ghost of Edgar Allan Poe. It was at the Athenaeum that Poe once courted poet Sarah Helen Whitman and it was at this same building that Whitman once tried to summon his spirit. Could the master of horror still be haunting Providence? Had events gone differently would it had been Providence and not Baltimore that claimed Poe as their own? This episode first aired February 14, 2019.

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0:00.0	Welcome legendary listeners.
0:01.6	Thanks for tuning in to From The Vault, a second look at some of our classic episodes.
0:06.0	Look for a new episode every week.
0:07.7	Now, can you go back and listen on your own at our New England legends.com?
0:11.5	You bet.
0:12.1	But you won't get the added bonus of an after the legend segment featuring new commentary
0:17.5	about that episode from your old pals Jeff and Ray.
0:20.8	So let's open up the New England Legends vault and revisit another
0:24.0	legendary episode.
0:27.0	Hey kids welcome to the vault happy Valentine's Day. Oh thank you yeah
0:31.4	sort of I guess really late or? Yeah, either way, it's we're halfway there.
0:35.8	This was a Valentine special that we did way back. Podcast 78, it was. And it's the broken-hearted
0:42.4	ghost of Edgar Allan Poe first aired
0:44.7	February 14th 2019. Enjoy. Hey Jeff what brings us to downtown Providence
0:49.5	Rhode Island on Valentine's Day? Ray I thought we'd stroll down Benefit Street to the Providence Athenaeum, so I could ask you, would
0:57.8	you be my Valentine?
0:58.8	Well, gee Jeff, you know, I like you, a lot, but not really in that way. I get it. It's okay. I mean this week we're exploring a legend about rejection anyway. A legend about rejection? A legend about rejection that's led to a haunting here at the Athenaeum of a very famous person.
1:17.0	This week we're in Providence in search of the broken-hearted ghost of Edgar Allan Poe.
1:23.0	I'm Jeff Palanger and welcome to episode 78 of the New England Legends podcast.
1:30.0	If you give us about 10 minutes,
1:34.4	we'll give you something strange to talk about today.
1:36.6	And I'm Ray Ozier. We're on a mission to chronicle every legend in New England
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