This Book Predicted the Future and Nobody Can Believe How Accurate it Is

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[@VikingCarpenter]

4:52 wrong birth year (death year instead) maybe its possible to fix

[@ZombiePanda1776]

I can't believe your shaved your moustache.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Born 19th Jan 1849, Died 7th Oct 1849 Does nobody fact check your videos ??? You looked smarter with the moustache 🤪

[@mkinkade7103]

If Poe wasn’t a victim of cooping, he may have suffered from Auto Brewery Syndrome. If the doctor gave him glucose it would explain why he continued to be delirious and died from alcohol poisoning.

[@vikinglife6316]

Fascinating. I always thought Georges Lemaître created the original theory that became the big bang.

[@billwhicker3511]

i had an uncle that knew when he was going to die. he knew the year, month , day, right down to the hour and the minute how, you may ask could he have been so precise about his own death...?? the judge told him.

[@barneyronnie]

REDRUM

[@nhmooytis7058]

😂😂😂

[@jvizzie1033]

Damn

[@ductorman]

😊I was thinking the same thing, that he was sentenced to be executed at midnight

[@samnelson2343]

Or he'd decided to top himself at such an such a time...😮

[@eyemunchained8968]

E.A.P. "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

[@NanaBren]

My favorite quote ever! ❤

[@GladysAlicea]

The quote reminds me of Matthew Perry, who always said "Reality is an acquired taste." I wholly agree. I'd give up decades and die early, if I had Poe's masterful writing ability. Love him!

[@NanaBren]

Hi Gladys, some days I wake up and think, Damn, I’m conscious! But then I remember that I’m crazy and it’s okay again! 😂❤️

[@GladysAlicea]

🥰@@NanaBren

[@hospitalcakewalk]

That's gonna be one of my next tattoos

[@gavinmurphy4510]

He probably had a stroke if they assumed he was drunk for 4 days

[@REzado63]

I'm from Baltimore and we learned about Edgar Allan Poe like he was a resident Baltimore we even take field trips to his Graves as a kid I feel like I learn more about Edgar Allan Poe and his one video and all of my schooling from Baltimore

[@levilam522]

There is an apartment preserved as where he lived in Baltimore . There is a tour available..

[@TheMrPushy]

Here before the thumbnail got changed 3 times

[@picklenikk]

same

[@terrikeentk]

What was the other thumbnails?

[@juliamcwilliam]

Then how do you know it got changed three times lol

[@daffayudono4071]

7 October

[@timopper5488]

And the title five times.

[@jessica_in_japan]

One of Japan's greatest mystery writers was a huge fan of Edgar Allen Poe and even based his pen name, Edogawa Ranpo, on Poe. This in turn influneced the name of the main character of the famous Detective Conan series, Edogawa Conan (from Edogawa Ranpo and Arthur Conan Doyle). A true marriage of mystery legends, and all thanks to Edgar Allen Poe.

[@neoanimegirl]

Well you got the Poes in Zelda

[@luckymandragoran8471]

@@neoanimegirl this is ambitious to think that a computer game will be held in the same esteem as these masterful writers. but if any game is going to do it, then i hope its this one

[@naftalibendavid]

The Mystery of Rampo, well, you can imagine…

[@Shadow-hw3kn]

influenced*

[@cwdelschneider]

What no way for real?

[@rizash]

As someone who stumbled on your channel when it was new, I’m so glad you’re still doing well and still making good content!

[@velkanzi]

I still fondly remember your RIF series.

[@bloemundude]

I'm just going to put this out there. Poe went missing for a week, and he had a bit of a gift for pre-telling future knowledge (big bang, etc.). So, what if Poe were visited by a fan of his, who brought him to the fan's home and showed him around and explained some things to him in return for his inspirational writings from the fan's childhood. What if the fan was H.G. Wells? The Mignonette ship wreck was in 1884, just about the same time Wells was toying with his idea for his first novel, The Time Machine (1895). Perhaps Wells brought Poe to 1884/5 where he read about the shipwreck in a newspaper. Poe could have also been taken to 1939 to see "The Wizard Of Oz" (in color, no less) and the shape of things to come. The Big Bang and expanding universe theory came out pre-1927, so he may have heard about it in 1939 before being taken back to 1849. Poe was missing for a week and returned disheveled and disoriented. How does Wells describe his time traveler in his novel? Disheveled and disoriented after having been missing for a week. Coincidence?

[@simonbischoff7840]

I think so, yes.

[@OAlem]

"Could have been taken". I don't like your choice of the passive voice. Don't be coy. Use the active voice. Do you mean WELLS took him to those times in his time machine? I'll go even further: H.G. Wells was an alien or alien hybrid. The sheer volume of his work is superhuman, as are all of his firsts. He was prolific in fiction and science fiction. He invented the bulk of the sub-genres of sci-fi. Do you know "the one-eyed man in the country of the blind"? He wrote that, too.

[@debbylou5729]

What if big bang was just a theory and just a guess?

[@fredo1070]

4:54 He was born in 1809 and died in 1849.

[@heroyt2490]

Thanks man 😂

[@GodIsAble458]

That confused me, thanks for the clarification

[@granolabranborg]

😂 He really was a time traveler!

[@johnortmann3098]

Yes, they had him getting the critic job years before he was born.

[@mikemetague7973]

Yes, just 24 days before both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.

[@4RILDIGITAL]

This is genuinely one of the most intriguing videos I've seen on Edgar Allan Poe. His life never seized to amaze me but this is on a whole new level, especially the fact that he predicted the Big Bang decades before actual scientists. Moreover, his last story being mirrored in real life remains the most eerie coincidence ever!

[@Travar1410]

I believe it's, "ceased to amaze". 😅

[@bradleyboyer9979]

ceased*

[@1fires1]

ceased.

[@deeboyfrmdao7327]

caesar*

[@nath2367]

He lay seized in a gutter in Baltimore*

[@judywilliamson2068]

Thank you. I have read in several books that Poe died of alcoholism. This is the first time I have heard the story of his actual death. When I was a kid I read Edgar Allan Poe often, and did a couple of book reports on his life. So I’m surprised to hear the rest of the story.

[@peterkephart7955]

One of the many things I love about this channel is the amazingly life-like, starkly realistic animations which are so convincing as to fool the viewer into believing that the scenes were filmed on site with real actors. Brilliant.

[@themindofmr.h9929]

Awesome as always! Minor note: timeline 4:52, Poe was born January 19th, 1809.

[@JohnSmith-ns6dp]

Thank you! That was driving me crazy.

[@danburby7936]

ME TOO@@JohnSmith-ns6dp

[@DamienBoath]

I noticed this too. The video starts with October 1849 a man was found drunk in a gutter (Poe), but then he was born in January 1849 later on.... Definitely some Benjamin Button shenanigans going on.

[@theunknownshadowish]

​@@DamienBoath would have to be a really severe and u usual case of Benjamin Button... Since usually you get younger each year... The drunk man was fou d in October of 1849 if it was Poe who was born January 1849.... he'd go through what 20-30ish years in a matter of 7 months... well beyond Benjamin Button Disease... that man's body would have to have the ability to reverse the effect of Tachyon particles that blaze through him constantly at that point

[@OnlyMasonCarter]

I thought I was tripping 😂

[@Jason-lw7tk]

This was fascinating! I knew he was an amazing author but had never heard of his scientific brilliance nor his apparent clairvoyance. That "coincidence" is truly astounding and your assessment of "What the actual F*CK" is hilarious! My first experience with Poe was in middle school when I read The Tell-Tale Heart and fell in love with his writing instantly. What a dark and incredible mind he had. Fantastic video!

[@divegabe]

Thank you for reminding me of the title of that 4 page story that freaked me out so much I decided to stay away from Poe! I was way too young to be reading into the mind of psycho's but it is clear that Poe was way ahead of time.

[@beckyzwhite]

He truly was a time traveller. He was born on 19th January 1846, yet he managed to attend the University of Virginia in 1826!

[@daynieboy7401]

huh didn't catch that but im sure it was something maybe it was on purpose and he was seeing if we could catch it who knows besides edgar himself

[@lenmyers2586]

Yeah, I made the same observation but it turns out that Poe was born in 1809 so one assumption would be that 1846 is simply an unedited mistake, unless it serves the time travel theory.

[@user-ed4fv9nd3b]

He mistakenly said 1849, not 1846.

[@jerrytaylor8570]

Actually, he was born 3 years after 1846, if infact, he was born in 1849... Or was it a past life when he attended UV? OF COURSE!

[@mejustme474]

He was born in1809

[@Tiny1Der]

Fun fact: the pub is called The Horse You Came in On and it is still open today in Fells Point Baltimore MD.

[@chainslayer101]

I had no idea Poe was so influential. I love this KZbin channel. Thank you for the content Thoughty2. Your videos through the years have brought me much joy, entertainment, and knowledge. Love you guys.

[@vincentmiller420]

Dude where's my car?!!

[@ScrappyXGC]

That dude affecetted me in elementary school "The Tell-Tale Heart" then write a report on what you read the night before Almost stopped me from reading shit at all. Good read though. Grew up things change

[@sheep5403]

@@vincentmiller420 I ate it.

[@someonesomewhere8869]

Train-Eater SCP foundation

[@someonesomewhere8869]

​@@vincentmiller420that's for you

[@tcortez]

As a West Point grad, we always kept to the story that Poe was dismissed after arriving at parade "almost" without clothing in that he was dressed only in his cross-belts and ammo pack. Absolutely apocryphal, but we continue to pass it along. Thanks for the presentation. Also from an area just south of Baltimore, so Poe has been part of life as long as I can remember.

[@ltgood]

A good story to tell, no one wants to hear of neglect of duty, what ever your position. With out duty nothing would ever happen anywhere officially. A mothers, or fathers duty lost is a tragedy as we may agree.

[@Sian_Brimms]

Thanks for this! I’ve been thinking about him recently. Not so much that I would do research, but enough that when I realized this video was about Poe, I settled in to watch the whole thing. I’ve always thought he was an interesting character.

[@MrSindala]

You suggested a possible solution to the Eureka mystery yourself in your episode of 3 weeks ago! The brain tumor might have triggered acquired savant syndrome which in Poe's case gave him advanced insights into the nature of the universe. Now I'm curious about what else is in that book that is deemed wrong. It might be stuff we just haven't found out yet.

[@GoodtoGaia]

Like the movie phenomenon with John travolta.

[@RandianaJoness]

I read that Poe's attending physician was John Joseph Moran and the last person to see him alive. He was also the only person supposedly, so everything we know of his final days after he was in found the gutter is based solely on his account. But he later changed his story a few times when describing events later on, such as the dates and times and whether he contacted kin before or after Poe's death. Although they say there may have been no malicious intent on his part but possibly just errors in memory. Still kinda adds to that conspiracy theory-ness lol and if what I read about the credibility of the doctor is even accurate in itself 😂

[@ScrappyXGC]

🤔So the doctor did him in... who told the JJM to do it 😱

[@MichaelSteltzer]

whoahhhhh

[@seriouscat2231]

I know an author who would immediately say that he actually faked his death and went to retirement.

[@stacyhartgrave2926]

Thank you for showing Poe in a realistic light. He's one of my favorite authors with his poem, The Outsider. Beautiful and misunderstood 🖤🩶🤍

[@jodyharnish9104]

I read an article by a doctor who was given Poe's medical records from his final days and asked to give his diagnosis. After consulting with a specialist, the doctor concluded that Poe died from rabies, which had gone into his brain.

[@Lindsey578]

That could make sense

[@wickidwarlock4656]

As always...your vids are captivating. I rarely watch a vid to its end. But I actually watch yours until you thank me for watching....every time. The subject matter is wildly varied and yet uniquely Thoughty two ish. Fantastic stuff. I my eyes you are the Edgar Allen Poe of the genre of literature that you produce. History is rarely...if ever...the documentation of what actually occurred at that time. It's a great venture for someone to attempt to take on that mighty blunder. Thanks for your many efforts.

[@garylefevers]

My oldest granddaughter still gets strange looks when she tells her teachers that my spouse and I would read The Raven to our grandchildren as a bedtime story. They loved it. Btw: she is in an ivy league school now. The others have various talents in different areas, such as music ext. They are very creative. I truly believe that in addition to supportive parents, Poe had a real impact.

[@nhmooytis7058]

My mom read it to me too when I was a kid! Also Annabel Lee.

[@DoloresJNurss]

My Grandma read it to me too! She read all kinds of poetry to me as bedtime stories. How wonderful that you have also done this!

[@chuckhouse5179]

I had The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit And The Pendulum, The Cask Of Amontillado and a fourth book, I can't remember now nearly 40 years on. I got them all from Scholastic Books based on my teachers advice. I went to a very small school so the teachers knew us well. They all knew I was a huge horror fan and they thought maybe Poe was a way to class it up haha. I became more ravenous for his work. I recite The Raven several times a year usually around Halloween but people like to hear it any time of year. Poe was something beyond a writer. He caused your soul to respond. When you read Poe you are harmonizing with the universe itself it feels like.

[@nhmooytis7058]

@@chuckhouse5179 we read the first 2 in English class in junior high.

[@pommiebears]

Both of my children are in the Australian military. I read them the hungry, hungry, caterpillar, and the BFG….. and, now one is a marine engineer, the other a weapons technician. Mine love music too, normally AC/DC, and other colourful bands. Creative? Yep. Both are very creative. They created havoc when home on leave at Christmas. Being brothers, you can imagine the competition between them. 😂

[@merlapittman5034]

Edgar Poe is one of my absolute favorites and has been since I discovered his work in my early teens. He was truly remarkable and talented. Thanks for this great video!

[@Miraiue]

He married a child.

[@MPM6785ChitChat]

​@@Miraiue Without condoning it; it was a common more of the period. What is really unacceptable is that to this day, over 20 American States allow marriage to 12yr olds plus a few States the age is 10 yrs with parental consent !

[@Miraiue]

@@MPM6785ChitChat just wdym “without condoning it”? He was a FULLY GROWN ADULT when he consciously DECIDED to marry a child. The fact that it was common does not make it ok at ANY TIME PERIOD. There’s no excuse whatsoever.

[@Neverblade911]

Great video. Very interesting and well produced. Thank you Thoughty2 and team.

[@kafkastrial8650]

Thank you so much for that insight. From all of us that have loved the writing's of Poe !

[@aqsamaryambee]

Poe was truly way ahead of his time Most of his characters have various psychological disorders like schizophrenia, narcissism, epilepsy This was before Freud He was truly hated by his peers. The British peers hated him because he was far superior in both intelligence and physique. And they picked on him by shaming his dead mother, who as it happened, was a theatre actress and that wasnt a very honourable profession back then. But his response to his peers were caustic. He roasted them well. He was quite a handsome man, and the famous painting of him we see everywhere as a spiteful depiction of him as an ugly version of his self. He did have a drinking problem but that’s because of his tragic life story. The way he drank wasn’t normal. He’d down the glass of the entire spirit In one go Poe is a truly remarkable, intelligent and creative author

[@dennisyoung4631]

That, and it seems Poe had a very limited tolerance for alcohol, i.e. one glass of (wine?) and he was trashed. If this sounds far-fetched, my mother was similarly affected. She became unpleasant with *one* drink…

[@mattchew83]

And he was also a pedophile......so....

[@pommiebears]

I live with epilepsy! It’s not a psychological disorder, thank you very much. It’s a neurological disorder. To be bundled in with Narcissism, is just lovely. Obviously you don’t know the difference between a personality disorder, a neurological disorder, and a mental health disorder, such as schizophrenia.

[@no_peace]

There's a work called The Portraits and Daguerreotypes of Edgar Allan Poe by Michael J. Deas. I had no idea there were so many "photos" of him

[@RainbowGothQueen]

And an incestual chomo

[@gamewithsanity]

Poe had a great mustache when he passed. Crazy he was only thoughty, too.

[@Cara-39]

Nope! You must leave!

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

f

[@antinapay]

Ba dum tss!!

[@donnaroberts4565]

Nice one bahahaha

[@simonadams5073]

I was going to give this comment a thumbs up but there were thoughty two already and I didn’t want to ruin it.😊

[@aaronwilbanks6269]

I deeply appreciate all of your content and efforts and all your information, some of which is very personal to me. Thank you!

[@paulanewhouse4252]

I live about 10 minutes from Poe's grave. On the corner of Greene and Eutaw street in Baltimore of course. It always gives me a feeling i cant explain. If you ever make it to Baltimore see for yourself. ❤

[@wenbeck1414]

Get out before the next pandemic

[@seandadon4884]

Eutaw and Greene don’t intersect you must mean Fayette and Greene

[@mixonken4236]

Very informative, and entertaining. I didn't realize ,that there was so much more to the man. You gave me something else to think about.

[@cynthiaduval4534]

Great video. It's so sad that he never lived long enough to know that so many people loved his work. That coincidental boat death is really weird.

[@hollylee8719]

That was a pretty awesome vid! I didn't know about Poe being so insightful about the universe and actually beating Einstein and Hawking to the punch , so to speak. Thanks. I haven't ever seen any of your videos that I didn't like. 😀 🙏

[@louisepicard3885]

WoW! So incredible! Thanks for sharing this incredible story of M. Poe’s life!

[@retriever19golden55]

Interestingly, Edgar Allen Poe was actually a cadet at West Point Military Academy, although he didn't make it to graduation. He features in a lovely dark tale by Louis Bayard, a novel called The Pale Blue Eye, concerning the gruesome murders of a couple of cadets, and Cadet Poe assisting a troubled, retired NYC detective investigating the murders. It's a wonderful, dark, lyrical book. A very faithful film adaptation was done a couple of years ago, starring the always masterful Christian Bale as the detective, and the amazing Harry Melling as Poe. For some reason its theatrical release was very limited, and as far as I know it hasn't been released on DVD in America, although it has in other countries. I managed to get hold of a DVD, and the film just blew me away. The book, however, is easy to find.

[@goldenanticstoo9686]

On Netflix… The Pale Blue Eye…excellent

[@tjpowers88]

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore” My father got to visit his home in Baltimore as when he took us it was closed in 2001 just months before 9/11 and never got a chance to go back. Anyway there is a fireplace in a part of the house where it is bricked up, which would inspire “The Cask of Amontillado”. He’s an amazing writer who lived a tragic life. Edit: Completely not trying to paraphrase your last line there Thoughty2, I promise I wrote this before I saw ending.

[@user-ff4nv4hd3l]

Absolutely love your content, it's always facinating and can lead you down an internet rabbit hole and I love when that happens! ❤

[@user-jx2gw4cn2j]

He might have died from detoxing from alcohol.

[@matmachin9992]

DT's are very real, very scary and if untreated can be very deadly. I doubt they gave him diazepam in the hospital.

[@NecroChungus]

Poe's prediction of the big bang is something important. This sort of thing happens often enough that it should be sought out. There's something weird that allows people to have incredible insight beyond what should be possible and it's an incredible and life changing thing to experience

[@Desertflower743]

Perhaps that’s where scientists got the theory from!

[@diablo.the.cheater]

That, or poe was utterly wasted by being a writer and would have done a scientifically revolution as a astrophysicist or smth

[@martinpowell5147]

Where‘s the Feb. 2024 prediction? I missed it maybe

[@kwamevandamme4798]

A great history deserves a listening. I was just passing by but had to watch this piece of great works.

[@storiesfromthemind4220]

I've heard a story Mr. Ballen told about this same thing with a crew mate, but never knew Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story that he wouldn't realize be based on a real person.

[@ashaleewai8735]

Intriguing! As usual your narration is absolutely riveting. Thank you

[@scloftin8861]

Has anyone suggested the onset of Type 2 diabetes? Uncontrolled, because you haven't been diagnosed can lead to acting drunk and raving ... although one would have expected a coma at the end rather than more raving and death. Just a thought

[@alexbouchard3880]

If he was an alcoholic it could easily have been hepatic encephalopathy, a complication related to liver failure

[@sagamaraia]

@@alexbouchard3880Or delirium. It seems the most likely explanation. Also if you take in count the clinking thing in his scull he might have gotten shot in the head with something small caliber, the wound had healed and the brain kept going until he died. Might even be both, who knows.

[@SpaceCattttt]

This is one of those fascinating subjects that makes one wish you'd occasionally make longer videos than this! How about a 45-miniute documentary?

[@Noteven0]

“One day in the pub, an Italian mathematician worked feverishly to solve a particularly difficult equation. Upon succeeding, the mathematician jumped up and exclaimed Eureka! The British fellow sitting next to him angrily replied “Oi there mate! I’ll have you know you don’t smell so bloody great yourself!” -Benny Hill told my dad that joke when I was 5… remembered it ever since.

[@lylek8933]

Heard of this story (4 shipwrecked crew) a few years back. Bizaare for sure. Poe had to be a psychic or somehow was able to tap into the akashic record. :)

[@lauram9478]

❤❤❤❤❤ my most favourite story yet! Thank you Thoughty2!!

[@jerrylee7898]

Poe is one of my all time favourite writers. Thank you for doing this video!

[@lucyk.5163]

Oooh! It's been a while since I watched your videos (binge watched all of them so I took a break to binge watch them again). Love your no mustache look!!!

[@lightningstrikelures2393]

I have listened to a lot of your channel. I drive a lot. Best story so far, great work.

[@redlaw8760]

Arran, the footage of the Raven mascots is not from the NHL but the NFL. It’s the Baltimore Ravens from the National Football League. Just an observation! 😊Thank you for your fantastic content!

[@ryanchaney94]

lol posted the same, glad he referenced them though I was waiting for it 😂😂😊

[@user-cq8fk8ej4h]

GO RAVENS!!🖤💜

[@misottovoce]

Fascinating video and excellent narration! Thank you!

[@vixeondaniels8886]

❤ Brilliant! Well done, Thoughty! 😊

[@WickedFelina]

Still didn't answer "How Poe wrote his own death sentence?" He wrote someone else's BUT NOT his own.

[@HexerGraf]

In defense of his wedding to his 13 year old cousin, most described them more like brother and sister. It is believed they never consummated the marriage, and many speculate that he only married her in order to protect/take care of her. Marriage between first cousins wasn't particularly uncommon at the time, it was her age that raised some eyebrows.

[@ruthie7]

Really enjoyed that, quite a lot of detail that I didn't know about Mr Poe.

[@kathypappas6867]

Wow I never really knew so much about his life. This is so interesting!! I love his writing ! Thanks!

[@agranero6]

The Gordon Pym story is far far more similar to the Essex sinking that happened 18 years prior: a whaling ship from Nantucket, they had tortoises in the boats, they drew straws and the youngest was select to die and be eaten, etc...

[@gilraybaker826]

So the Essex sinking PREDICTED THE EDGAR ALLAN POE STORY?!? Gol Dang!!

[@agranero6]

@@gilraybaker826 It was a very famous case...Melville based Moby Dick on it, it was impossible that Poe never heard about it. And I credit its failure for that being an exausted subject.

[@Desertflower743]

Wow, that’s also intriguing and I don’t doubt it, though it seems cannibalism was not an isolated case in those days, it was a common affair when crewmen were shipwrecked and without hope. However, two crewmen were actually charged with the murder and cannibalisation of Richard Parker after the shipwreck of The Mignonette after Poe’s death. But was it the greatest coincidence in the world that the cabin boy was named Richard Parker, or did he just get named that (a la John Doe) after the character in Poe’s story because nobody knew the poor lad’s real name?

[@JamesThomas-gg6il]

Studied Poe as a kid. Did a report on him for literature. I was always of the opinion that he died of mercury poisoning, but that tumor thing is new to me and certainly would explain his " supposed" insanity. All great artists are eccentric in some way but EAP was my kind of guy. Besides , the west point story is hilarious.

[@sunnybeaches1331]

Very informative! Thank you so much!

[@MaisieB9103]

My father knew when he would die some twenty years before. He said he would probably die at his desk ( it was Xmas eve, he was off) and said he'd be 67. He added that he has had a happy life and will die happy. He was right about everything and would have died at work if it hadn't been xmas.

[@WarDog793]

And thank you for that enlightening tale of Poe. He's probably my favorite American author from that period, maybe because his imagination was so macabre and yet so affective to readers. If only the doctor treating him had had a better diagnosis of him. Who knows? They might have saved him.

[@kerrydempster9416]

Sherlock Holmes was based on an Edinburgh doctor who was Arthur Conan Doyles mentor !

[@maryslack6169]

Love this episode one of my favorite authors of all time. Love your channel

[@davidholmgren659]

A fabulous presentation in your wonderful mesmerizing narrative style. Well done and RIP Edgar Allen Poe.

[@Canalcoholic]

"Took to it like a duck to HoiSin Sauce" definitely wins a thumbs-up from me.

[@00LXS00]

Thank you as always for the great stories! And animation as well! 😊

[@crinanthethane9386]

Well done! 🙏🏼❤️

[@georgenoyes2904]

Just brilliant content, bro!

[@CatoTheElder-]

Good ol' Poe. I've had many a drink in the bar that claims it was his last stop before ending up in the gutter (The Horse You Came In On Saloon). That claim is dubious at best. I think The Fall of the House of Usher and The Gold Bug are his two greatest works. Two very different genres, and two excellent stories.

[@kitefan1]

Excellent! I'll have to read the science fiction one. One of my good childhood memories if of an older neighbor girl reading The Raven to us littler ones to keep us still on a hot summer day. Creepy even at 80F (26.7C).

[@damienfought1949]

You are a great and wonderful and amazing human being. I love your videos they’re inspiring they’re uplifting informative. Your channel is a good place to go to have a nice laugh. Thank you so much for your content.

[@COKTilYouDrop]

I've been here watching your content since 2014-2015 and can't believe I've known of this channel for almost 10 years

[@davidanderson2357]

4:50 Poe born in 1849. 5:45 Poe attends University of Virginia in 1826. So clearly one can see how Poe acquired his uncanny knack to foresee future events.

[@efonwang]

It's 1809.

[@TrueDarkness458]

He died in 1849....

[@FFNOJG]

Eureka is literally giving away how he got the info. he like telsa later would allude to, got a psychic download of the info. just like jack parsons, and other's... i even have had one of these sudden bombardments of images showing me the shape of the universe, and how time works. he was giving away how it came to him in the title.

[@duke927]

Thanks thoroughly enjoyed this video:) One of the first author’s I read as a boy. A lot of Poe’s stories were made into movies in the 60’s:) Recent movies include “The Pale Blue Eye” and “The Raven”. In Baltimore there was a tradition from the late 40’s until recently where someone laid three roses and a bottle cognac on Poe’s grave: Edgar Allan Poe’s grave tradition ends after 60 years Since 1949, an unidentified visitor known as the Poe toaster has visited Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Baltimore, Maryland, on the anniversary of the writer’s birthday, leaving behind three red roses and a bottle of French cognac as a tribute to the master of the macabre. But this morning, Poe enthusiasts were surprised to find that the tradition seemed to have unceremoniously ended. Today marks the 201st anniversary of Poe’s birth, and some are speculating that the Poe toaster decided that after the bicentennial, the tradition should come to an end. From the CBC: I’m confused, befuddled, said Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum. Since 1977, Jerome and a small group of Poe enthusiasts have made their own tradition of keeping an overnight vigil at the church cemetery where Poe is buried to catch sight of the visitor ¦ [Jerome] had waited in the church and on the outer edges of the cemetery along with about two dozen die-hard fans. They spent the time singing Happy Birthday and reciting lines from The Raven. Many commenters on this story speculate that the toaster might have died after a 60-year tradition. However, it has been reported by several sources that a note was left on the grave in 1993, reading The torch will be passed, which was taken to mean the tradition had been passed on to the toaster’s son. Ever since then, onlookers have reported spotting a much younger-looking man at the grave. Jerome said he would continue visiting the grave in case the tradition begins again. And although this whole story is appropriately mysterious, the real question is, what happened to all that cognac?

[@leroybrownjp414]

Great video. Keep them coming

[@Cara-39]

Anyone in NYC around Halloween should take the Poe Walk, a walking tour of Poe related locations, including his 3 homes, in Greenwich Village. The guides do a great job of bringing 1840s Manhattan to life and family and friends that visit me in Oct always want to go.

[@gilraybaker826]

I took the HP Lovecraft Walk in NYC, which winds up with getting sapped in an alleyway in Red Hook and your wallet getting taken.

[@Cara-39]

@@gilraybaker826 🤣🤣🤣

[@BigDawgBignuts24]

PERFECT TIMING FOR A WEEKLY THOUGHTY VID! GREAT AS ALWAYS! Thank you so much 💙🫶🏻

[@miritam3932]

👍Great video, love the mystery around all this. I am suscribing

[@alicearcturus8610]

Thanks! That was a great and enjoyable story. I have even more respect for Poe.

[@christinebrady6842]

I think this is my favorite of your videos. I already knew some of the information, but some of it was new to me. All of it is fascinating, I think.

[@thingi]

Here's some more info you may or may not know.... I've known about Richard Parker since I was about 12. His memorial is on the wall of the Lady Chapel in Peartree Church / St. Mary's Extra in Southampton where I used to sing in the choir as a kid, yet I've never heard of this spooky Edgar Alan Poe connection. Another unusual fact about Peartree was it was the first Church of England building to consecrated after the Henry VIII told the Catholic church to 'do one' so he could get divorced.

[@alanhindmarch4483]

My favourite Edgar Allan Poe story is, “The Pit and The Pendulum.”

[@jeanbaker2087]

My first husband, Vernon, and I were married for 34 years. In 2013, 10 days after his birthday on February 17th, Vernon died on the 27th. He was 72 years old. I still love him.😊

[@janicereadymartcher7696]

And he still loves you. I have told my wife if I pass first I will look over you and protect you until we meet again. True love conquers all.Phil.

[@vekunde]

Richard Parker! Wow! What a story. Reminds me of Morgan Robertson's "The Wreck of the Titan", or "Futility" describing the Titanic, essentially.

[@ms.donaldson2533]

That is only one of MANY of the stories from Charm City!! Much love from Lady Baltimore History ❤

[@nashiPAGE]

Sounds like Poe might have been psychic without even realizing. 🤔

[@lisaliza7009]

Amazing work concise easy to follow

[@Thatfunnyguyonyoutube]

I've seen Thoughty's videos for the passed year & enjoy being mindblown by his content, and him cursing (even censored) has blown my mind 😃

[@pelinoregeryon6593]

Only up to 1:19 .. and I'm thinking > "doesn't diabetic shock present superficially as inebriation? how long does that take to kill you when it kicks in like that? what other conditions occasionally have similar symptoms?"

[@heathermauldin4951]

Not that it matters but... When I first started school I rode the bus home, and I sat with a girl who loved Poe. She would tell me his stories, and from that experience and my brother being into Poe, I developed a lifelong long love for the man and his works. I've read a bunch of shit throughout my life, but Edgar Allan Poe is still my favorite writer of all time. I highly recommend people listen to the great Christopher Walken read The Raven. It's just beautiful. Thank you for this dive into my favorite author of all time. I love your channel, and this was my favorite video.

[@jh115]

Thanks! Adore Poe, his poetry is awesome too x

[@yerejun]

Wow did not know this much about Edgar. Thanks for this video 😊

[@averyhenrichsen1811]

The animation is absolutely off the charts lately. Especially this video. Give your animation chap a raise. Best storyteller in the history of KZbin!

[@lechatbotte.]

There is a man living in Maryland who does re-enactments of Poe. The minute you said drunk in a gutter I knew who this was about

[@_yaqubabbas]

A beautiful way to end the video with a line from the Raven poem. 😊

[@gmaureen]

I first learned of Poe in high school and he kept me busy for the next 2 years. When I finished reading his work I felt abandoned, I wanted more. He was incredibly entertaining.