Following a strange tradition, a black-clad man placed roses on Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Baltimore yesterday, the writer’s 192nd birthday – but this year, he revealed he’s a New York Giants fan.
For 52 years, a stranger, dubbed the “Poe Toaster,” has entered the Westminster Presbyterian Church cemetery on Jan. 19 to put three red roses and a half-filled bottle of French cognac on the grave.
Yesterday, when he arrived at 2:25 a.m., he flashed two thumbs up to witnesses 🐈and left a note tied to thඣe bottle.
The note, alluding to various Poe works, read:
“The New York Giants. Darkness and decay and the Big Blue hold dominion over all. The Baltimore Ravens. A Thousand injuries they will suffer. Edgar Allan Poe evermore!”
The Giants, whom loyal fans call “Big Blue,” face the team named after Poe’s poem “The Raven” in the Super Bowl a week from tomorrow.
All this s🐻hocked Jeff Jerome, curator of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum.
“It just sort of burst a bubble for me,” he told the Associated Press.
“We all know it’s not a ghost or a spirit, or anything like that – but it’s a human being who likes football?”