PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -For 50 years, starting in 1949, a man visited Edgar Allan Poe’s grave every year on his birthday and raised a toast to the poet. Leaving behind roses and Cognac, the mysterious figure became known as the Poe Toaster. The identity of the Poe Toaster has never been revealed and the visits ceased in 2009.

Detailed explanation-2: -Starting in 1949 and lasting half a century, an anonymous person, affectionately known as the “Poe Toaster, ‘’ visited Edgar Allan Poe’s gravesite on the eve of his birthday every year. The Toaster always left a partial bottle of cognac along with three roses at the site.

Detailed explanation-3: -The shadowy figure, dressed in black with a wide-brimmed hat and white scarf, would pour himself a glass of cognac and raise a toast to Poe’s memory, then vanish into the night, leaving three roses in a distinctive arrangement and the unfinished bottle of cognac.

Detailed explanation-4: -But many members of the church have claimed that the sightings had begun much earlier in the 1930’s. Either way, from then on the occurrence of the Poe Toaster became routine. He would always arrive between midnight and dawn of 19 January, wearing an all black outfit with a white scarf and a huge hat.