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People often take it for granted that Edgar Allen Poe's former house's could be haunted.Though his ghost has been spotted other places, his old home on 203 N. Amity Street in Baltimore is haunted by someone else.The building is a two and a half story, brick row house.It was very small and narrow.The attic room, where poe lived, is so tiny that adults often have trouble standing up in it.The house was built in 1830, and Poe's aunt Marie Clemm rented it in 1832.Poe himself lived there from 1832 until 1835.He lived there along with his aunt, his grandmother, and his two cousins.
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In 1939 the house was almost demolished during a "slum clearance" program.It was taken over by the Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore in 1941.The house is open to the public and is operated by Jeff Jerome, who has been the curator since 1977.One of the interesting things that can be seen there is a portrait of Poe's wife, painted from her corpse.Doors and windows in the Poe house often open and close by themselves.In 1968 a local resident called the police after seeing a light moving around the closed building late at night.When the police arrived they saw a candle-like light move from the first floor, through the second, and then up into the attic.When the police entered the house nobody was there.
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Curator Jeff Jerome has stated to several sources that the identity of the spirits has not been determined yet.Most of the activity has taken place in the bedroom that was once Poe's grandmothers room, but was also many others room before they had even moved in.Elizabeth did die in the house in 1835.In her room many people have been tapped on the shoulder.
More to come soon!
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