The Macabre Death Of Edgar Allan Poe
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How much do we really know about the death of one of the most famous poets in the world?
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Make sure to leave your questions for our Post Mortem episode down below!
Why?
Edgar Allan Poe loved cats, he had a cat named Catterina that would sit on his shoulder when he wrote, and slept on his wifes chest to keep her company. After he died they went to his home and found that his cat also died. (But probably just from lack of food yikes) Also, at the Poe museum, there are 2 cats, Edgar and Pluto.
Edit:
I'm very annoying but here's some more facts:
1. Some people think that Poe and Virginia's relationship was more platonic that romantic
2. Poe's rival, Rufus Griswold, wrote an awful obituary for him in which he said Poe's death “will startle many, but few will be grieved by it”
3. come on leave him alone he wasn't that gross and creepy, just a very sad man (other than the Virgina thing lol) but he constantly tried to escape the horrors of his life, he just never could
4. He actually wasn't very famous or successful during his lifetime so people probably wouldn't have recognized him
5. ok sorry I get this is very annoying I just think people should know more about him
will the hot daga be back this season
BuzzFeed Unsolved Network Yeetus
So, will Shane do hotdaga stories on qna?
“-he was a weird little spindly man with a head the size of a pumpkin” *Shane acts as though he didn’t just describe himself*
Bro, he said LITTLE and Shanne's A 6 FOOT GIANT!!
You should edit your comment with a #roastmortem
Nah, he's a *large* spindly man with a head the size of a pumpkin
This needs to be in the roast mortem
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Me: *immediately looks to see if the mannequin is gone*
Shane and Ryan: “Let’s make the mannequin even creepier this season”
Isabel Harris I JUMPED
It really is scary, it looks directly at us 😂
Isabel Harris it’s in the window
Wait what?? What mannequin?
BxItterWolfie the window to our SOULS
*Shane looks like a depressed history teacher, but like the kind of depressed history teacher that is actually your favorite teacher because they make history fun* .
This discription makes me think of Remus Lupin from harry potter no offence to the character. he one of my favorites
magic myth2 Remus Lupin is fantastic!
@@magicmyth2635 Same! It was Remus Lupin I remembered. With his shabby but dignified clothes.
And because you have a big crush on them
I got all I need from his ruining history
I know this is from a year ago, but I feel the need to let everyone know that it is believed that Poe only married his cousin to save her from being married off to an abuser
i take back my words
That makes me think less less of him
@@savvystudios7950 I wish I did but I can't find anything online. I heard this from my college literature prof so maybe I can email him about it
It was normal back then to marry before 18. In India too where I was raised, people used to marry when they were 13 years old. Like a 13 yr old boy marrying 12 year old girl. It was common back then. Sometimes in villages and rural areas in India this tradition still continues.
Yea right
Shane: "I don't know much about Edgar Allan Poe"
Also Shane: *Literally looks like him*
Ha Ha Ha!😂 All he needs is a bit of white face makeup, and black hair dye!🤣
Omg facts
Who knows they might even be related
Bahaha maybe he’s lying to cover it up 😂🤭
Ghost: boo!
Ryan: *dies*
Shane: _Here lies Ryan Bergara, loving wife._
(Shane's loving wife)
@@leentjebouwman7112 joe's son
Too realistic
Staph shipping real people!😂
#postmortem
"In the life of edgar allan poe, tragedy was never far off" *insert upbeat tango music and a dove deodorant comercial*
69 likes- Nice
I actually started cackling
"tHeReS nO dRy TimE?!"
I spit my water 😂
I had the best foods drizzle sauces one with upbeat music.
Ryan: *does extensive research on the death of Edgar Allen Poe*
Also Ryan: *freaks out over the knowledge that Poe was from Baltimore*
He was not though. He just died in Baltimore and the place claimed him because he became a famous historical literary figure.
@@sambhavimishra8453 he lived in baltimore for many years, it’s safe to say he’s from there
@@katherineamelia98he arguably spent more time in Richmond and that’s where he considered home, so people would say he’s from there. He was born in Boston, so you could argue he’s from there too. I’m sure if he died somewhere else, that’s where people would say he’s “from”. Balitmore’s only true claim is that he’s buried there, which is reason enough.
Shane is bringing that POWERFUL divorced substitute teacher energy.
ROASTMORTEM
he looks like he's related to dan the english teacher
Yessir
He got the jacket and everything 😂😂😂😂
CaptainLog he is
This entire show is Shane not knowing what is going on at all and Ryan stating facts for him.
lmao
Ye that’s the point lmao
#RoastMortem
Gotta love em
That's why it works.
THE LEVEL OF EXCITEMENT I FEEL AHHH
Mad Butterfly me too me too
I thought this said “excrement”... sorry
Cazzical I audibly screamed.
xtriple0000 bruh BHAHAHAHA
IM SO HAPPY AAAAAAA
The relationship between Poe and Virginia has been reported as platonic and never consummated. There are also accounts that he married her to spare her from an arranged marriage that her parents were making. He was such an interesting guy.
He’s born and raised Boston. He just died in Baltimore and the city was like He’s Ours now
Yup he’s ours now oop
Sullivan's Island SC lays a claim to him as well
Yeah we did and Boston can fight us
ehhhh richmond va claims him more. his life takes place 80% in richmond
Yup we also claim Babe Ruth cause he was born in Baltimore even though he mainly lived in NYC & Boston 🤷😂
Poe wasn’t ever famous when he was alive. After he died his short story’s and poems got very famous. That makes his life story even more sad
Iris Faith he was famous after publishing the raven, but i believe it died out
He did have moments of fame, but you’re right that it was never enough to be anything to support him
That’s common in writer’s
@Iris Faith Edgar Allan Poe died.
That’s how it is with artists ; whether they were painters , writers or poets . They only get the recognition they deserve after its too late and never getting the chance to enjoy it .
"Poe was 27 and Virginia was 13"
Chris Hansen: Edgar have a seat right on that stool there.
Edgar Allen Poedephile
@@TAddy-wq3hg fuCKIGN UNDERRATED COMMENT
this deserves all of the likes
😂😂😂
@Think About it. I was thinking the same thing. It was a completely different time period and the further in time we go back the more common it was lol.
*when you learn more about edgar allan poe in a 23 minute video than you ever did in school*
Yeah, learning his actually poetry wasn’t good enough ... seriously, I would’ve paid way more attention
I'm showing this to my students tomorrow to present poe! Hahahah
I think it’s more his work is used as a tool to teach literature. He’s studied in English & reading and writing classes not history.
Pan brother/sister/sibling hello
I read Tell Tale Heart in my english class and now my knowledge is just ‘he married his 13 yo cousin’
Nobody gonna mention how Shane's goal is to look weird throughout his 30's?? Like he is intentionally looking like a 70s serial killer/weird teacher and i am living for this
Yeah he has that remus lupin look
Y'all know what kind of jacket hes wearing? It's pretty freaking awesome
Not everybody ages well into their 30s. You have an alpha male like me who can still pass for 17 and then you have scraggly guys like him, who look old. Not everybody is a stud.
Johanna Victoria I see this so much,
definitely hitting his goal of looking weird, but weirdly enough.. he DEFINITELY pulls it off. 😍
Did you boys know that Edgar Allan Poe’s house here in Richmond, Virginia is reportedly very haunted by his ghost. Perhaps there could be a sequel in the supernatural season? Hmmm?
It isn't haunted by me, madam..
There's also a bar in Baltimore where people have apparently seen his ghost
niceeee
#postmortem this needs to be seen
Oh, I love Poes works, and this made me sad.
Ryan: We talk to ghosts all the time.
Shane: *every regret flashes before his eyes*
I was about to comment that😂
Love that.
"It's very easy to condemn from our vantage point in history, and so we do condemn! Wholeheartedly!" One of Shane's best quotes.
"Don't marry kids" is the official stance of Shane "Long-Legs" Madej
What about "stop serial killing"
The American Revolutionary hero Lafayette also married a girl of 13 (or so.)
I did it and he never died or went to the hospital but they ALL chose MORE ? scratch scratch, :(
@@sageemma Yes but he was 16 at the time himself, so rather different
Can’t we all agree that Poe, was just a VERY unlucky man
A bunch of unlucky tragedies & not uncommon to have such troubles for many back in the 1800s. Still truly terrible he didn’t live longer to see how much the public embraced his works after his death
Ya think!? His life is comparable to much of his brilliant writing. Tragic, dark yet beguiling and impressive.
The best artists have some sort of tragic life and or just mental issues.
@Properly Gaming True, but is not just the best, ordinary people can have tragedies too, that's life, it doesn't pick a specific person, some good people have trgaedies, some bad people don't, life can be like that.
@@p.s.cs8530 I didn't mean to say normal people don't have tragedies but that some of the best artists whether it be writing, painting, or singing have allot of tragedy in their lives
One of Poe’s ancestors definitely pissed off a witch or something. Seems like a family curse almost
Pumpkin God some people aren’t affected by tuberculosis. They just carry it. All his wives (and his parents) died from tuberculosis. I think his godmother did too. So i think when his parents died he was infected and became a carrier. So all the people he was around long enough died but he lived.
#postmortum
@@abominableman Are you taken? You're really cute.
@@abominableman You can't be serious...
Do you realize that you just met a stud?
@@RobbieStacks90 grosslier
Does anyone else love it when Ryan is narrating in an official, calm tone and casually throws in flowing phrases like “and, since his dad was a tightwad,” and “even ‘grosslier,’ she was his cousin” bc that’s the sudden and uncommented-upon informality I signed up for
“Grossly, Virginia was his cousin. Even grosslier, she was half his age” 😂😂
Samantha Dalton GROSSLIER
ewww i read this as ryan said that SpOoKyYyYy
The fact he says it in his monotone documentary voice makes it even better
Welp, that’s the south for you
Grossliest, she was only 13. That.... seems relevant.
I see the mannequin found a new, and even more terrifying location...
bluefox99887 Yeah, sat right next to Ryan!
When it's just about in the corner, it's just like a stalker
By the window, it looks like it's actually planning your murder
I remember a video they made "the watcher" and it reminds me of it
@@alexei9122 Thank you for making me notice it. Im scared now.
Imagine this thing at your room's window
"Get him out there, get him workin', get him burning his own furniture." The genius in this quote just cannot be comprehended.
I need that quote on a shirt :D
Would’ve been a good yearbook quote 🤣
There's actually a story in my family that one of our great great great uncles, who lived in Baltimore at the time, helped a pale man from a ditch and to the local hospital a couple nights before Poe died. Apparently he was incredibly unwell looking hense the idea of bringing him to the hospital, it was thought by the uncle's daughter that that man was Poe and she wrote it in one of her schoolbooks that we still have from her.
That is very interesting. It would be even more interesting if you might consider sharing a copy of this letter or book that you have with the Pratt Library in Baltimore Maryland. The Pratt Library is the keeper and conservator of a few items taken from po at the time of his death these few remaining artifacts are kept under lock and key in a vault in the museum. If you contact them the library Museum just might be interested in what you have to share with them. They may even want to analyze it and look over whatever material your family currently still possesses.
Now, people often think of Poe as this brooding, mysterious figure. But did you know he was also a master of disguise? Yeah, apparently, he used to dress up and go to different taverns just to mess with people. I gotta say, that takes commitment. Imagine spending hours putting on a fake mustache just to creep people out. That's some next-level dedication to the craft.
That would be so interesting to read. Joseph Walker found him, and he, Henry Herring, and Dr. Snodgrass took him to the hospital. You should do a dive into your family history and see who it is that you’re related to!
Fun fact the ravens mascots are named “Edgar”, “Allen”, and “Poe”.
*were They got rid of two of them. Now,only Poe remains.
And the actual two ravens we have, are named rise and conquer
Gtd5504
..Fun fact, Allan is spelled with 2 As i
@@rullmourn1142 no it's not
Aaron Chris Gallagher Yes it is
Post Mortem: Just to point out, it is heavily debated over the nature of poe and virginia's relationship. she was in an abusive situation, its thought that poe married her to have a reason to get her out of it, as he did not have the money or status to take custody. she also was a writer in her own right and poe did his best to support her. from both of their writings, it is concluded they never "consummated the marriage", and virginia died a virgin. the supposed scandalous relationship was a theory heavily pushed by the brother in laws and family that believed poe was hiding money from them.
impishclutter ohhhh I had never heard of this! I'm gonna look it up
That’s interesting! I hope they see this and elaborate on it
This makes me feel WAY better
Ohhhh interesting !!! Yeah that makes me feel better about the situation lol
#postmortem
@motmus mom Pedophilia should never have been a consideration, thank you very much.. Virginia was of the proper age for marriage in our time..
"He was like a weird little spindly man with a head the size of a pumpkin"
Getting a little hypocritical Shane
#postmortem #shaniac
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🔥🔥🔥🔥ROAST MORTEM🔥🔥🔥🔥
ROAAAAAST MORTEMMMMM
Not really Shane is tall not little.
Are you sure Shane wasn’t describing himself? #roastmortem #postmortem #shaniac #boogera
Just so you know, he wasn’t in a sexual relationship with his cousin. He married her to save her from an arranged marriage.
yeah, but it's still gross (based on modern standards).
@@cronchybo i mean- If my arranged marrige consists of a terrible groom, I, too, would like to fake marry my cousin solely to avoid a terrible relationship. Back then it was normal (Im NOT condoning it), so it was either arrange marriage or fake marriage
@@cronchybo Stop being a fuckin snowflake
@@DeadAngel14 just say you wanna marry your cousin and leave
I always thought it was the creepy way.i guess it's sweet. Honestly, still a little weird.
Nobody:
Literally nobody:
Shane outta nowhere: I don’t like heroin.
How many times do you think he tried it before deciding that?😂
Jessica Church 😂 nah. It's a running gag with him. He's deathly afraid of someone randomly injecting him with heroin, this has come up many times in the past
@@lastlife0726 It's honestly such a rational phobia to have tbh. Heroin addiction is a horror movie irl.
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We Breathe Football it’s not fun
"They married when he was 27 and she was 13"
"Can i just say.... ... ...can't be doing that"
I had to pause cos I was laughing so much
Oh poor Shane 😂 I hope he knows that Jerry Lee Lewis did the same thing where he married his cousin (course that marriage did dissolve eventually) 😆
@@LucyLioness100 well that was in the 20th century which is (by the times) much worse.
“Even grossly-er” sent me out
@@andrewdeangelo1 19th.
@@graemefarquharson465 I was talking about Jerry Lee
Shane is really giving off Remus Lupin energy in this episode.
YOU'RE RIGHT LMFAOOOO
Ikr
Payton Lewis OMG YESSS
Yaaaassss
Ik it’s amazing
Imagine life constantly throwing you curveballs and you somehow manage to become one of the most influential writers in your time.
Respect
But mostly after his death so he doesn't even get to witness it.
@@carnuatus Like I said. Life is constantly curving him.
But somehow in a weird way he makes it
“grossly, she was his cousin. even grosslier, she was half his age” lmaooooo
Brynn Colegrave 27 and 13 wow
@@Themorganmarie Yup. What a fucked up dude.
Mood
Alan Hardcastle naaaaaa. Don’t see 14 year old boys getting married. Did we?
Alan Hardcastle but was he married to an adult?
The temperance movement was actually pretty largely made up of women who feared alcohol's effects on their husbands and fathers. Alcoholism in a loved one is obviously terrible on its own, but it was especially bad back then because women and their children were so legally and financially dependent on these men. It's actually super sad
You also have to consider the cleanliness and quality of the alcohol being served at the time. It's not like a lot of government oversight existed which was part of the reason families feared its effects.
Thanks, I was hoping someone else would have pointed this out. The temperance movement was very much an anti domestic violence movement. They thought that banning alcohol was a way to prevent husbands from beating their wives and children.
It's also strongly linked to women's suffrage. People believed that getting the right to vote would allow women to vote for prohibition.
@@Kiki-cs8xv you're so right thank you for pointing that out
Steven Moore alcohol was literally safer than some water
@@isaiahcollins6470 Yeah, properly made stuff might've been, but improperly prepared alcohol could (and still can, I guess) give you stuff like botulism or methanol poisoning, so that wasn't great
Fun fact: Elmira actually had no choice, Edgar promised her he would write to her while he was away, and he stayed true to his word but Elmira's father hid the letters from her and then later forced her into an arranged marriage, #postmortem
hmm, this might reflect in some of his poems and stories. like Bridal Ballad. It's about a girl who had a man she loved but is forced to marry another. and despairs about it.
Caitlyn Closs whoa, that’s terrible
"FUN"?
I wanna know when they moved Poe's bones out did they put them back? Or is the location to his grave still a mystery today?
How am I just now seeing these comments
I remember several years ago, watching a documentary on Poe, where they assembled a small team of physicians, of various disciplines, to try to come to some determination as to what actually happened to cause Poe's death. I don't remember if this documentary was on television or online. They gathered all the known information of Poe's personal medical history, his family's medical history, his living conditions, his work conditions, and even examined a collection of photos of Poe. If I remember correctly, they determined that it was a sort of "perfect storm" of a number of things.
1. They determined that he suffered from Macrocephaly. That is why his head was as big as it was.
2. They also went into discussion as to why his eyes were so sunken and dark. They attributed it to a symptom of breathing in too much fumes from the burning of coal oil (I'm not sure if they came up with a name for the condition). All buildings at that time used coal oil lamps to provide indoor lighting.
There were other symptoms and diagnoses, but I can't remember what they were. Bottomline, they stated that it was a number of things that killed him .... Not just one thing. I wish I could find that video!
"She was 13."
*long. Uncomfortable silence*
Did y'all also miss the fact that she was his cousin
@@ethanlafontaine6045 um yes there is. Have you not heard about deformities and health problems that are more likely to happen through incest?
@@ethanlafontaine6045 Tell that to king Charles II of Spain, he is a perfect example why inbreeding is Bad
@@emmafalconer6127 *Please don't remind.*
I’m just going to say it “can’t be doing that”😂
For postmortem: Just thought you guys would like to know that there’s an unknown person who leaves a rose in the gutter where he was found every year on his birthday. No one has ever seen who it was.
I thought it was his grave. I've heard about the annual roses, but I heard it's at his headstone.
sorry that was me
The watcher
All Hail the Watcher.
@@peachysandie it is at his grave
This literally just made my day. Like corona is running everything in my life right now, online school, my vacation cancelled, prom might be cancelled, and etc. BUT THIS, THIS IS A NICE SUPRISE.
I love your enthusiasm, my prom might be canceled as well :(
This is a surprise to be sure but a welcome one
i was going to get purposefully banned from prom again but the coronavirus has kept my antisocialism intact
Man i feel this
I'm sorry, I feel for you. stay safe, wash your hands.
When he said "Poe found out that his fiance, (girl's name)..." I def heard "Beyonce" instead of "fiance" and I was like "okay yeah so his idol I guess, his queen" and my brain saw nothing amiss with that.
Yea me too I was like omg mood
I heard the same. I was like wait wha- 💀
"Spilling Poe's remains..."
-This guy can't catch a break
I laughed a bit too hard 😂
Pariya Rezaqoli same! 😂😩
The Baltimore Ravens had three raven mascots! “Edgar” “Allen” and “Poe”
Amber Feezor did I ask?
It’s Jack Choppy yes
It’s Jack Choppy I did
It’s Jack Choppy Literally everyone asked.
It’s Jack Choppy somebody’s a grump
“I never liked heroin”
-Shane, 2020
HAHAHAAHA
I need that on a shirt
“aunt/mother-in-law” is such,,, an interesting statement
Whenever I hear about an author who became famous after their death I get so sad...they might have thought they were a failure and then never know how much their work actually impacted people
yea it’s so sad to me as well! ☹️ if only they knew
Yup, Kafka is another
Its like that episode of doctor who when they take Vincent van Gogh from the past and take him to one of his art exhibits in present day and he hears everyone praising his work and he sees how successful he became after death and he starts crying tears of joy, Vincent was also famous wayyy after his death. That episode was awsome, the clip of it is on UA-cam
Knowing this guy's luck, all of the theories are correct lmao
😂
WHAM!...Nice😉💛
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imagine
Lol but its true
shane: "poe was from baltimore."
ryan: "wwOoOOooAAaHHhHhHhhHhhHhHHH"
ғuňţċѧsє ţuċҡғѧяԀ he primarily lived in Baltimore which is why he associated with that city. I’ve actually been to his home there & it’s an eerie space. Visited his grave too & we had a brief reverence for him and left a small gift
Well he was born in Boston, but died in Baltimore. So I think that makes it even better considering he was a dark figure that wrote even darker stories.
Poe was a Bostonian. His old apartment is across the street from the Boston Common. It's a National landmark.
I love Ryan
@@theshape7214 don’t we all?
Yeah marrying a 13 year old at 27 wasn’t looked at kindly back then either
12:12 lol shane said that not ryan
I was looking for this comment, yeah marrying your child cousin was definitely Not the norm in 1830s Virginia
It's being looked at too kindly now or ever! That girl had only just started going through puberty.
It was normal back then to marry before 18. In India too where I was raised, people used to marry when they were 13 years old. Like a 13 yr old boy marrying 12 year old girl. It was common back then. Sometimes in villages and rural areas in India this tradition still continues. Yeah but a 27 yr old marrying someone half his age is pretty disturbing.
@@GeekRaj if it was common back then, then it's fine. But when we read about something like this today, even if it was from way back when, we can't help but feel disgusted.
Ryan: "ghosts appear in their house or where they died or-"
Shane: "or wherever is convenient for the story. Got it."
Is this also the trailer for the next season of Buzzfeed Unsolved Supernatural?
Subcribe to the boys new youtube The watcher ua-cam.com/channels/ircJf-FlToBNjuy9xG-i5A.html
Ryan: describing Poe’s life in a smart fashion
Also Ryan: *eVen gRosSliEr*
once that statement was finished Shane and Ryan just sat in silence
*Camera focuses on Shane*
Everybody: Looking at Shane
Me: Looking to the face of Statue beside the door( in the middle of the night)
Me too 😂😂
Zoraiz Masud same bc in the roanoke video it moved
Katy Elizabeth exactly😂
It's creepy af
Luckily, it's 11:39 in the morning here
I feel like the story of Edgar Allen Poe's wife is so twisted to fit his "messed up suffering artist/writer" narrative when in reality, she was his cousin/niece (I can't quite remember) whose parents died of TB when she was 12 which put her in a very awkward position of either 1) being sent to a monastery to live out her days 2) marrying some strange suitor she didn't know or 3) going to a monastery for a few years only to be thrown out onto the streets as an orphan. Poe, as her uncle, was unable and couldn't afford to legally take her in as a child but he COULD marry her preventing her from all of those fates and at the very least she was with family. Is it a fucked up system? Yeah. But It's definitely not Edgar Allen Poe who messed with that, he did the best he could for the little family he had left. Was there a relationship? Muuch later, but not initially. Still messed up but not nearly as much as the initial glance suggests.
Shane: "Let's make cemeteries happy places"
Ask A Mortician has entered the chat
Loove her!!
Gabriela Guzman 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Loveee her!! Her channel is so good
Gabriela Guzman Yessss
Deathlings unite!
Edger Allan Poe: *is a poet and dies in a strange way*
English teachers: this is so deep write 10 paragraphs on how this affected his work
*dies
Happy virgo season😳
i can't do it its 666 likes
edit:man they liked it ;-;
Damn it, why is this accurate.
Omg true!!!
@MARYAN MURIDI I am too lol
Shane: “THEY NAMED A FOOTBALL TEAM AFTER HIM, HE WAS BORN IN BALTIMORE!”
Ryan: “Born on January 19, 1809 in Boston”
he actually said he was "FROM" baltimore
Ah yes, Edgar Patriot Allen Poe
To be fair, he did dye there
He lived in Baltimore for most of his life, and they did in fact name the team after him! The mascot is named Poe in his memory! :)
mattie xoxo there used to be three named edgar, allen, and (the only one left) poe. so yeah.
I want my headstone to say "he was a weird little spindly man with a head the size of a pumpkin"
if you plan it out it could say whatever you want, there’s a scavenger hunt planned for my friends. “how do we know it’s real?”
me: “only one way to find out”
"I'm just a poe boy nobody loves me"
"He's just a poe boy from a poe family, spare him his life from this monstrosity"
'Easy come, easy Poe, will they let him go? Eureka! Will not let him go. Will not let him go oh Figaro, Poe, poe, poe, poe, poe. Oh Leonora!, Leonora! ...' or something. 😎
@@waynej2608 lol
Oh QUEEEENNNNN
GALILEO! GALILEO! GALILEO LET ME POE!!
You did not just-
You crazy son of a b you did it, I can't believe it but you did it
The boys are back.....
Ryan: I'm gonna rip that mustache off your face
Shane menacingly: I'd like to see you try
BOYS ARE BACK
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
😂😂😂😂
ok no one is going to see this comment but they didn’t tell the whole story of Elmira. She never cheated on him on purpose. they were engaged before poe went to college and agreed to write letters to each other. But Elmira’s father disapproved of the engagement and intercepted and destroyed all the letters. Elmira thought that Poe had forgot about her and married Shelton and had children . After Shelton died she met up again with poe, who had recently lost Virginia . They got engaged again, but poe died. She did not mean to cheat on him. I’m sorry I went on this rant I have a lot of feelings about Elmira
Not saying I don’t believe you, but how do you know??
@@kiera_klark8171 a google search maybe?
Kiera _Klark it’s on her Wikipedia
The Notebook vibes, anyone?
That's even sadder
Poe is one of the coolest poets in my opinion, he was very intelligent and had a very rough life, he deserved better than what he was handed.
"how DARE you judge him for marrying his thirteen year old cousin"
"I don't care , I judge thee"
*"I judge"*
19:06.
@@kingofdragontown9680 king movement
*judge judge judge*
*Shame shame shame*
me, listening to the ghoul boys talk about edgar's life: aw man this is so sad wtf i feel so bad for him
ryan: he married his 13 year old cousin
me: i am asking to unhear it
🤣🤣🤣 child marriage ruins everything lol
Lucky Lex
Well it's also a combination of serious gross and illegal things: pedophilia and incest. We shouldn't have that, but somehow anime encourages it.
McKenzie Eby You clearly know nothing about anime but okay
afaik it was a platonic marriage, but good on the boys for their concern
@@bagel5056 they're just saying anime plays into it, which some definitely do. They're not talking about every anime around. Lol
_"Poe started publishing poems."_
Me: ... *POEm*
I totally read this as POEM, a surgery for a rare disease I've got, and got way too excited someone made a joke about it 😂 😅
and for that, he' a POEt 🙊
Edgar Allen PoeT
Eeeeyyyyy!
What a poe boi
5:09 "It's very easy to condemn from our vantage point in history, and so we do condemn! Wholeheartedly!"
came here for this.
Poe: *gets born *
Life: *You're going to have a bad time*
precious『もも』 But it’ll be great material for your morbid writings
Life : wait, that's illegal
“In the life of Poe, however, tragedy was never far off-“ *insert ad* "THE RIGHT MINERALS, THE RIGHT HYDRATION, LIKE SUMMIT NATURAL DRINKING WATER!"
Hullo
Hullo
lamao
Fun Fact: Poe was actually extremely athletic it’s crazy. Dude swam up a river for 6 miles.
Fact?
You hustlin' me boy? Fun?
Poe?
Edgar Allan Swole
cuz he was a crack addict
“I saw Coco!”
So good. Nice to have you gents back.
"Poe was 27 and Virginia was 13"
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis the FBI” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door-
Only this and nothing more.”
Crooty nobody realizes and appreciates that this is the raven
the creativity in this comment. wow.
Wow that's a good one right there!
Also it’s not Rapping if your implying a Hell based drop off it would be rappelling.
Also that’s more of the S.W.A.T teams thing, FBI do something’s do things, but for the most part when law enforcement bursts down your door it’s a S.W.A.T team, their also they guys who use tear gas and Shields. FBI normally don’t have the same gear S.W.A.T teams do, the most armor a FBI member would have is a Kevlar vest. Nothing that really could count as armor anywhere else on them.
This is GENIUS
Props for incorporating the raven into your narration, “rapping at death’s chamber door,” “the weak and weary Poe” :)
Spaghetto 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Also "nevermore" 🤣
Shane: “All rich people are murderers.”
Also Shane: “No, make him work for it! Make him strong.” when Edgar Allen Poe is literally starving and struggling to stay warm
In another episode, he said he'd prefer to be given "a lot of money for doing nothing ".
And you know what's really cool? Poe's influence can be seen everywhere, even in popular culture today. I swear, every crime show has an episode inspired by his works. You never know, maybe one of these days we'll see a reality TV show called "The Bachelor: Edgar Allan Poe Edition." I can already hear the host saying, "This week, the ladies will compete for the heart… that beats beneath the floorboards!"
I'm now a teacher planning for an Edgar Allan Poe Unit and I'm gonna use this for highschool juniors. Thank you guys.
What a wonderful way to start the season. Shane is giving off major “retired 70’s detective” vibes. #postmortem
I picked up on 79s porn star vibes
I mean, both seem accurate to me lol
Their pinned comment begs to differ, Sam.
ryan: i’ll rip that mustache off your face
shane: i’d love to see you try
LMFAOOOOOOO I DIED HDHSJSKSKS
dianne i’m freaked out lmao i literally read this comment the exact moment that they said this hahaha
Ryan in a low voice:” i am gonna rip that
mustache off your face..”
Shane same low voice looking at the camera with a small smirk :” i would love to see you try...”
God i miss the ghoul boys also the energy of this episode is just hilarious
Nasty boyz baby
Yeeeee
I love how Ryan says that ghosts usually haunt places they died not necessarily where they were buried. I feel like graves are actually the least haunted places there are, unless u died where ur buried. Or the spirit goes to places or things they are most attached too
**coffin falls apart**
"That's what you get for marrying your 13 year old cousin"
Me:"Sounds about right for this show "
@كنوز الدراما and lwtd15
Just stop
hey_there I mean it’s kinda like fall of the house of usher lol
The Baltimore Ravens were definitely named after Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”. Their original mascot were ravens named Edgar, Allan, and Poe.
Pretty glad we changed it.
Carter Allen That’s not true, they had 3 Ravens (the bird) named, Edgar, Allan & Poe. No mascot was ever dressed as the man.
I_Love_Fat_Girls whoops I misread. Thank you for the correction!
Shane: "What do you do when life throws curl ball at you?"
Ryan: "Have a nice cry"
That’s a mood ryan
Same
He had a sad, sad life. I mean... Even his corpse couldn't rest in peace
#postmortem (since so many insisted I tag it!)
Poe married his cousin purely so that she wouldn't be homeless. After her husband died, she was on the grounds of losing her house and everything she owned unless she could be remarried. This was because the law stated that women weren't allowed to own anything; it had to be under the property of their husband. If the man died, the woman was actually considered part of his property. To save her from being married to someone wanting to take advantage of her and the property, Poe agrees to enter into civil marriage with her. This was apparently more common for the time than one would think, but still a little weird. We can only trust Edgar's word that there was never anything sexual or romantic about their relationship. Poe writes that he only had platonic love for Virginia, and even called her "sis" because she held the role of a sister to him. This was the reason he was so heartbroken when she died. It was very akin to the same grief he experienced when he lost his parents.
Thanks for the information, that’s really interesting! But according to that she was already married before 13?
Crazy Catnip oh dear...
Elaine P this was also (apparently) part of the reason some Mormons had so many wives, more as a favor than anything related to attraction. At least so I’ve been told.
Oh wow, seriously? That's actually really noble of him then
Do you have any sources? I ask because I really, really hope this is true.
My school is closed because of corona, so this season has the perfect timing
Yeah boyyyy
Sameeeee
Can’t relate, England doesn’t give a f*** about our wellbeing😔
Sameeeeee
Dang my school don’t even care
For the Postmortem: just a fun little comment on the Baltimore Ravens connection to Poe, not only is the team named after Poe’s poem, “The Raven”, the Baltimore Ravens mascot is also named Poe. 😈😈
OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS
i think they actually have 3 raven mascots all named Edgar Allen and Poe. im not 100% on that though,
Maria Reynolds If I’m not mistaken, the birds that they bring to the games are Edgar and Allan, while Poe is the mascot.
@@mariareynolds2705 yeah, they have 3 mascots. Supposedly they're supposed to be 3 brothers named Edgar, Allan, and Poe. It's really cool
Sammie Walsh the pinned comment says to leave comments for the post mortem. they are on a special contact with buzzfeed to just do the unsolved series
3:15 why would you give money to the military to get your god son out, when you could give your god son money to finish school. Like, sir. Hello. What’s wrong with you
19:08 "it's what you get for marrying your thirteen-year-old cousin-" "jESUS MAN YOU CAN'T SAY THAT-"
I can't even begin to tell you how I missed this I'm crying
He married Virginia in Virginia lol
The only light left in the world:
The joy of a Shane and Ryan upload
Fluffy not Fat check out their new channel called “Watcher” 👀
Thanks, But I’ve already looked at it, love how Steven joined in too!
Okay but if it makes anyone feel better, Poe and his wife/cousin never actually consummated the marriage. Based on records from him and other family members, it was more of a companionship thing.
Maya S yup that’s true. He was adopted into my family. He was actually pretty conflicted about his relationship with her, as he was extremely close with her but also was in live with her. In the end however he mostly committed to a close friendship with her rather than loving her.
it does make me feel a little bit better
Somebody needs to tell Shane this!!
#postmortem
That does make me feel better. Shoutout to shane for wholeheartedly condemning it anyway
You can actually still buy yourself out of the military. I remember being in boot camp, and so many rich kids having their parents buy out their contracts. Basically, if you have the money to pay the government back you can buy out your contract. Most people don't have that kind of money.
For post mortem: alternate theory: shane is secretly edgar allen poe
Both are great writers
Katie Globehead is he rich L
@Eddie R that was the best incould come up with in 5 minutes im sorry😂
"grossly, virginia was his cousin. _grosslier_ virginia was half his age."
Great pfp lol
ruby I REPLAYED THIS PART LIKE 80 TIMES
can't spell pedo without p, o, and e
Actually, back then in the earlier 1800's, marrying your cousins was seen as normal.
Dragon Killer 5566 yes we know, doesn’t make it less gross
As a Baltimore native, The Ravens are 100% named after the poem and our mascot's name is Poe. Also, Poe's grave is now marked and a huge tourist spot at Westminster Burying Grounds - one of my all time favorite places in the whole city.
hell yeah maryland time
I love that wen he talked about his death he kept adding lines from “the raven”
Nothing better on a Friday Night Quarantine than the return of the Unsolved Boys! It’s the small wins & this is DEFINITELY one of them!
Tess same
Right. I can feel my immune system strengthening.
subscribe to watcher!! that’s their new channel
Sammie Walsh Thank You for the suggestion! I had no idea they had a channel! 👍🏻
I mean, it wouldn’t be Edgar Allan Poe if he didn’t go out with a little zing and sizzle.
Is Edgar Allen Poe rich ?
It’s funneh And the krew fan no idea. Why?
Isabelle Vollema I’m just curious lol I hear his name a lot and idk why
It’s funneh And the krew fan he is very famous for his poems and personally they are quite gloomy and really good
Isabelle Vollema thank you !
If the Raven franchise ever leaves Baltimore and there isn't a headline that says, 'The Baltimore Ravens Nevermore,' then I'm done with this world.
If the Ravens leave the world should end
Well, the team left Cleveland for Baltimore-in the middle of the night, no less-so it's not unprecedented. (They used to be the Browns, before another team was brought in to Cleveland.)
Yeets Mcgee bandwagon
@@sandrafaith Well, I think you're confusing what the Colts did to Baltimore vs. what Modell did with the Browns when relocating to Baltimore. Irsay moved the Baltimore Colts in the middle of the night unannounced fearing imminent domain. Modell publicly announced the move of the Browns to Baltimore, there were lawsuits. etc.
Modell publically got out of a bad contract (his fault) and a bad football city. Paid off.
Kris Brookes shut up