Creepy Facts

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No one knows how famed creepy writer Edgar Allan Poe died.

At least, those who did know are long since dead, and all firm records of his death have been lost.

Poe was found on Baltimore’s streets on October 3, 1849. Eerily, he was wearing someone else’s clothes.

He was in pretty bad shape, and died in hospital just four days later.

He was never coherent enough to explain what had happened, and he kept shouting “Reynolds” the night before his death.

There’s nothing left from his medical records, including even his death certificate.

Speculation about the cause of his death ranges anywhere from suicide, cholera, heart disease, epilepsy, and even murder. He was only 40 years old.