
The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Mystery of the Rabies Vaccine
Author John Evangelist Walsh proposes that Poe was murdered because his first wife died 18 years ago. He became engaged to Sarah Elmyra Shelton and her three brothers were very much against it, so they laid him in Philly. They forced him to drink water knowing he had an allergy to the stuff? It's generally considered more of a crappy experiment than anything else. The most fun one for a lot of people in the crowd is going to be murder, murder most foul.
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