The Macabre Death Of Edgar Allan Poe
How much do we really know about the death of one of the most famous poets in the world?
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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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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 😂🤭
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
*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’
*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
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
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
@@s.f6851 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.
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
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.
Ronaldinho is 40 now!
We Breathe Football it’s not fun
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
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.
"It's very easy to condemn from our vantage point in history, and so we do condemn! Wholeheartedly!" One of Shane's best quotes.
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
“grossly, she was his cousin. even grosslier, she was half his age” lmaooooo
Brynn Colegrave 27 and 13 wow
@@morganmurphy8700 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?
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
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.
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
“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.
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.
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, 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
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
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- 💀
“aunt/mother-in-law” is such,,, an interesting statement
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.
Ryan: We talk to ghosts all the time. Shane: *every regret flashes before his eyes*
I was about to comment that😂
Love that.
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 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!
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
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
Reminds me of Van Gogh's story
@Iris Faith Edgar Allan Poe died.
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.
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.
"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.
"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.
He had a sad, sad life. I mean... Even his corpse couldn't rest in peace
5:09 "It's very easy to condemn from our vantage point in history, and so we do condemn! Wholeheartedly!" came here for this.
“I never liked heroin” -Shane, 2020
HAHAHAAHA
I need that on a shirt
Knowing this guy's luck, all of the theories are correct lmao
😂
WHAM!...Nice😉💛
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imagine
Lol but its true
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
“I saw Coco!” So good. Nice to have you gents back.
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?
@@Zenigundam grosslier
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
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.
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
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?
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.csdeaky8530 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
I love that wen he talked about his death he kept adding lines from “the raven”
Hey for anyone watching again, I recently learned that Poe’s marriage to Virginia was actually for her own safety as she was going to be married-off anyway. Nothing happened between Poe and Virginia during their marriage.
"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 🤣
"I don't like heroin" - Shane ...suspicious...
This is the same man that has the irrational fear of just suddenly being stabbed in public and being injected with heroin... So his fear is valid
@Jacqueline McDonald lol...no one can appreciate your humor but I can.
that’s something only someone who likes heroine would say...
@SsSs RoBbSs it's both it's a weird fear to have but like the probability of it happening is never zero Especially in LA
Indeed...🧐
18:51 this has the same energy as "shut up" "make me"
I'm new to this series, but I can't believe you don't talk about the super secret people who leave things on his grave in the same fashion, same disguise, same time every year and despite multiple efforts have never been caught
omg what?
@@jamiel6005 Yeah I can't remember all the specifics about it know, but there's like a secret society of sorts that leave gifts on Poe's grave on I think his birthday. People have tried to catch them on camera and person and nobody knows who does it or how.
@@gothicfairy2407 Maybe it’s just a bunch of gothic enthusiasts with a flair for the dramatic? That seems like something goths would do just for the aesthetic of it 😂
As Poe would have wanted
"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”😂
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 🤷😂
i’ve been binge watching these guy is videos. like a video popped up on my recommendation out of nowhere and then i just became obsessed like there’s always a video recommended
I love that he quoted The O.C show. I loved that show when I was young.
"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*
Interesting Poe Fact: The most important women in his life (biological mother, adoptive mother, and wife) all died of tuberculosis! edit: thank y’all for the likes and very fun comments! love the unsolved community!!
Jennifer Claire I sometimes forget how deadly tuberculosis was, considering now most people are vaccinated against it (including me, thank god).
I think I read somewhere once that Poe was probably a carrier of tuberculosis. Everyone close to him died of it but he never got it himself.
I read that as one singular woman and I thought they were all the same person. I was real freaked out until I realized
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I'm glad you said interesting fact instead of fun fact 😂
"aunt/mother-in-law" is never a good thing to hear
I'm loving the references to The Raven throughout - you're too good to us literary nerds lmao
_"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
“Even grosslier”, ah yes I’ve missed Ryan’s literacy skills.
it's POEtic license
love these! You guys are the best!! Thank you!
nothing beats ryan’s excitement when shane told him about the Baltimore Ravens 😂
"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
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
OMG yes we need this
My high school English teacher’s theory was that Poe died of rabies. Apparently he liked to take in stray/wild animals. According to my teacher, a rival of Poe’s in Baltimore found him sick/collapsed and put him in a drunk vagrant’s clothes so that everyone would think he died of alcoholism.
It does not make logical sense to me that a friend would want to basically leave him lying in the street with people making false assumptions about him.
Despite famous prose and praise galore, Poe's death would be a mystery forevermore
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. 😍
Plot twist: Shane is a ghost trying to convince Ryan he isn’t real
It's been years and people are still commenting this. Damn.
@@dearoldmold ikr lol
It's not even the season for Supernatural.
I'm now a teacher planning for an Edgar Allan Poe Unit and I'm gonna use this for highschool juniors. Thank you guys.
I really love watching these videos please keep it up
"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
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
poe actually possessed shane in this episode and now shane is slowly presenting more and more like poe
Bi ge watching all Buzzfeed Unsolved videos these two make my day.
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
"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
Such a sad and short life, seems like he never catched a break.
Edgar allan poe is one of my favourite writers☺︎︎
Shane looks like a depressed historian teacher Edit: omg thanks for the likes, I really appreciate it!! 😗🔨
fanTAE Siii Yet still more attractive than you.
Slytherin Babe factssss
Why does that line up 🤣
He doesn't just look like a depressed history teacher, he _is_ a depressed history teacher (or at least has been ever since Puppet History came out. Not sure where the depressed part comes it but who cares)
Slytherin Babe who asked you?
"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
"Your goal in your thirties is to look weird" I've never felt more deeply understood
Edgar is one of if not my all time favorite poets . I love The Raven I like singing it in my head when I'm walking to work.its so calming and deep 😌
"Grossly, she was his cousin" bruh "Even grosslier, she was half his age" BRUH
I am going to start to use grosslier as a word
It’s actually not as bad as people think. Apparently she had an awful home life and Edgar married her to save her from her abusive family. They didn’t do anything grossy in the marriage and they slept in separate rooms.
@@theals9605 Oh, yea that makes sense. I thought it was weird because if he really was a nonce he wouldn't love or at least want that adult woman, who's name I can't remember lol
She wasn’t half his age he was more older than just half
She was 13 bruuuuuh
"He was like a weird little spindly man with a head the size of a pumpkin" Getting a little hypocritical Shane #postmortem #shaniac
weeewoooweeewooo
🔥🔥🔥🔥ROAST MORTEM🔥🔥🔥🔥
ROAAAAAST MORTEMMMMM
Not really Shane is tall not little.
Are you sure Shane wasn’t describing himself? #roastmortem #postmortem #shaniac #boogera
I love how Ryan was in disbelief of a sports team being named after Poe until Shane is like "Poe was from Baltimore so Baltimore Ravens!" 😂
Waaahhhhh that made me smile so much when Shane mentioned the oc and ryan! It's one of my fave fave shows!!! 💙
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
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
I love how Ryan uses sentences, phrases from Poe in the script
that evermore joke at the end was just chef’s kiss omg ryan u king
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
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.
“Tragedy is never far off” *gets a bumble ad*
Great video. Thank you for pronouncing macabre RIGHT, it's Greatly Appreciated. The English language is a Beautiful Language, When Used,And Spoken PROPERLY !!!! Keep up the good work guys !!!!
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
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'd hate to sweat for so long" ,, is the same sentiment I got from his ordeal. I was thinking of how uncomfortable that would ughh