The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Society & Culture, Science, Comedy, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

While Edgar Allan Poe’s life has been significantly documented, his death is up for debate. Was alcohol the main culprit? Did he have dormant rabies? Or was he killed?

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0:00.0	What happened to the man that coined the genre of murder mystery?
0:03.9	To what extent did vice and addiction contribute to his death?
0:08.1	How did politics play a role in this poet's demise?
0:11.9	Today we test the believability of the death of Edgar Allan Poe. Welcome to Believing the Bazaar, where we dive into the unknown and the unusual.
0:45.4	And tell you whether or not we find it believable.
0:48.2	That was so fast.
0:49.6	Yeah, that's payback, just like last time.
0:51.6	Oh, man, I wasn't ready for it.
0:53.0	Okay.
0:53.8	So this is, we all know Edgar Allan Poe. Yeah, I like last time. Oh, man, I wasn't ready for it. Okay. So this is, we all know, Edgar Allan Poe.
0:56.5	Yeah, I'll be honest.
0:58.1	I do not, I don't read him, like for fun.
1:02.1	I don't, it's, he's not something that I get into.
1:06.0	He's, okay, for me, he's like a grandfather of some of our favorite John.
1:11.7	Your favorite John for sure.
1:12.9	Horror.
1:13.7	Horror.
1:13.9	Horror.
1:14.8	Horror.
1:15.7	Yeah.
1:16.5	And I respect him.
1:18.3	Like the telltale heart.
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