“THE TRUE CRIME STORY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE MURDERED CIGAR GIRL” #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: I’m sharing a chapter from the book “Nevermore: The Haunted Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe” by Troy Taylor, which I narrated the audiobook for. But this chapter by itself was so interesting to me that I thought it would make a great episode of Weird Darkness – plus, it gives you a little peek into what you might get if you purchase the book itself. I’ve left a link to the book in the show notes below. This is the true story about themurder of a girl who worked in a cigar shop, the investigation of it by law enforcement, how Edgar Allan Poe saw it as an opportunity to escalate his career and name… and how it all almost blew up in his face, even with some claiming Poe was the murderer of the poor girl!
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Nevermore: The Haunted Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe” by Troy Taylor: https://amzn.to/41e7BxJ
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Originally aired: March, 2022
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/PoeCigarGirl
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| 0:00.0 | There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because |
| 0:05.4 | I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period. |
| 0:09.9 | It's just for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my |
| 0:15.5 | records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance. |
| 0:18.8 | Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks. |
| 0:27.8 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. |
| 0:33.2 | I love walking with the dog for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing and you've |
| 0:37.5 | got to wrap up warm. |
| 0:38.5 | So I think a frozen nose is sweaty armpits because your wrapped up so warm but then you're |
| 0:42.8 | climbing hampsed and heath and you get to the top and you're like oh and then you |
| 0:46.8 | can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to top. |
| 0:51.4 | Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks. |
| 0:56.9 | Hey weirdos, have you listened to the first episode of Weirdling Woods entitled Chapter |
| 1:01.4 | 1 Bounty? |
| 1:02.4 | Well whether you have or not you can join me in the author John Allen for a live chat |
| 1:07.6 | this coming Wednesday March 9th as we all listen in real time to the episode and live |
| 1:13.0 | chat about the story, the characters, the numerous horror themed Easter eggs that are sprinkled |
| 1:18.5 | all throughout the episode and you can ask any questions you like of me and the author. |
| 1:23.1 | The Weirdling Woods live chat is this coming Wednesday March 9th. |
| 1:27.7 | It begins precisely at 6pm Pacific, 7pm Mountain, 8pm Central, 9pm Eastern, 3pm in Hawaii |
| 1:35.3 | and 2am for our friends in Greenwich Mean Time. |
| 1:38.4 | Get the details at WeirdlingWoods.com. |
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