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What's Behind This Site
I’m fascinated by stories of the bizarre, whether it’s an old ghost story or a legend from the distant past, but most importantly I’m looking for the stories behind the story of the haunted place, so to speak - what really happened that led to the stories? How did the place come to be known as haunted?

One of the more frustrating aspects of looking for stories of this type online is the fact that so many of the sites that deal with haunted places just copy their info from another site instead of actually doing some research themselves and cleaning up the garbage that keeps getting repeated. I’d like this site to be different, so you’ll find stories here about ghosts and hauntings that you won’t find in other places.

Though I'll be covering many different haunted places as this site expands, I'll be concentrating first on those places with which I am the most familiar, in many case, because the properties are tied to my ancestral line in some way. Because of these ties, I invite interested readers in following on the stories here by taking a look at my Carroll County Maryland Genealogy site which includes my own family lines as well as many others from both Pennsylvania and Maryland. This same information is also available through the Family Files section on my Chester County Genealogy site - in either case, you do need to register on the site in order to see the link, but registration is quick and easy and free.
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Poe Still Surrounded By Mystery

July 7, 2008 — Admin (Views: 41)

Having grown up in the Baltimore area and being a fan of the writings of Edgar All Poe, I’ve been fascinated for years by the story of the mystery visitor who leaves roses and a bottle of cognac at his grave every year on January 19th, the anniversary of his birthday. Though Sam Porpora, the former church historian who was instrumental in the preservation efforts at Westminster Presbyterian Church, stepped forward and claimed to be the mystery toaster, his claim was rather thoroughly debunked later. Porpora claimed that he and his tour guides at the church drummed up the idea in the 70’s as a way to create more interest in the poet’s grave, but Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe Museum, says that the tradition actually started many years earlier and notes that a newspaper article from 1950 makes mention of the nocturnal visitor.

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