Three Red Roses And A Bottle Of Cognac

The Poe Toaster has struck again!

For those of you who don't know the tail, the Poe Toaster is an annual, unknown man who visits the Edgar Allen Poe grave on the anniversary of the poet's death (January 19) , leaves three roses and toasts him with a bottle of cognac.

The earliest record of him being in 1949 newspaper, we know from notes left by the Toaster that original Toaster passed the torch on to one of his two sons before his death. Still, it's more intriguing to think of him as one, ageless man.

There are three bodies buried at the Poe plot (Poe, his wife/cousin and his aunt), so it's easy to explain the three roses, but no one has ever been able to discover the significance of the cognac.

So, let us raise our glasses to one man who makes the world just a little bit more magical for the rest of us, one day a year.

The Night Stalker