Some stories were never supposed to be told.

Stories that exist in the twilight,

between science and the supernatural,

between history and horror, stories that speak of terrifying things, stories that you

want to hear, stories that you need to hear, stories that will sink their teeth in, and never

let you go.

My name is Mike Brown, and this is Pleasing Terror's.

Pleasing Terror's podcast, Episode 45, The Descent, Part 2, Spiral.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting,

dreaming dreams, no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, 1845.

Last episode, inspired by reflections on Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death, we went searching for his ghost.

That search led to Baltimore's Fell Point, and the horse you came in on Saloon, long-rumored,

though falsely, to have been Poe's last stop before his collapse.

From there, the trail wound deeper into history to 100 North Broadway, the former Washington

Medical College, where Poe died.

There amid lost hospital rooms and whispered legends, the search for Poe's ghost really

began.

Now in Part Two, that search continues, northward, to the quiet rooms of the Fordham

Cottage in New York, where Poe lived, dreamed, and watched his world slowly fade into shadow.

When Edgar Allan Poe and his family moved to the Fordham Cottage in 1846,

it stood in what was then a quiet, rural part of Westchester County, miles north of the bustle of Manhattan. The small frame house, built around 1812,

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