In the Shadow of Oz

In this episode, we follow the Annabel Lee legend backward: from modern ghost tours to nineteenth-century poetry, from pirate treasure maps to academic footnotes, from Sullivan's Island beaches to a forgotten corner of a graveyard. What emerges is not a simple ghost story, but an obsession—shared by scholars, storytellers, and an entire city convinced that something precious was buried in the South Carolina Lowcountry and must be found.   Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston by  Christopher Byrd Downey   Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle By C.G. Jung   Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe in the South Carolina Lowcountry Scott Peeples, Michelle Van Parys Southern Cultures, Vol. 22, No. 2     Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond by Christopher P. Semtner   Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe- The Final Mystery by Julian Wiles   The New York Evening Post   The Charleston News and Courier The Sullivan's Island Edition of The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Durham and Elizabeth Verner Hamilton

  The Descent has led us to Charleston, and to a haunted historic theatre where we uncover a clue that may bring us closer to finding the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe. Sources:   The Ghosts of Charleston by Julian Buxton   Charleston Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City by James Caskey   Complex, archetype and symbol in the psychology of C.G. Jung by Jolande Jacobi   The Mad Booths of Maryland By Preston Kimmel   The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe by Scott Peeples   Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe- The Final Mystery by Julian Wiles

In this episode we visit the most haunted house of Edgar Allan Poe and then retrace his path to the threshold of a secret world. Sources that were either referenced directly or consulted during the writing of this episode:     Ghosts of Philadelphia by Charles J. Adams III   A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak   The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe: Nevermore in Baltimore by David F. Gatlin   True Tales of the Unknown: The Uninvited, published in 1989 and edited by Sharon Jones   The Ghostly Register by Arthur Meyers   The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City by Scott Peeples   The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe   Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond by Christopher P. Semtner   The Poe Shrine: Building the World's Finest Edgar Allan Poe Collection by Christopher P. Semtner

In this episode we continue our search for the ghost  of Edgar Allan Poe and retrace his path through the final, ill-fated months of his life.    Sources that were either referenced directly or consulted during the writing of this episode:   Ghosts of Philadelphia by Charles J. Adams III A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak True Tales of the Unknown: The Uninvited, published in 1989 and edited by Sharon Jones The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City by Scott Peeples Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond by Christopher P. Semtner The Poe Shrine: Building the World's Finest Edgar Allan Poe Collection by Christopher P. Semtner

In this episode we embark on a search for the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, guided by Henry David Thoreau and the mystery of the Hollow Earth. Our quest begins with a visit to a haunted saloon and an apartment building that is hiding a dark past.

In this episode, we take a look at Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug," a story about an encrypted map that leads to a buried pirate treasure. We will visit a haunted theater and discuss a play a play about the death of Poe that was first performed there in 1994. The story, the ghosts, and the play are all clues that lead to a hidden treasure that Poe was attempting to find in Charleston in 1828.  This is the first installment of a two-part story.   Works Cited: Buxton, Julian T., The Ghosts of Charleston , Beaufort Books, 2001 Caskey, James, Charleston’s Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City, Manta Ray Books LLC., 2014 Dawidziak, Mark, A Mystery of Mysteries,  St. Martin's Press, 2023 Downey, Christopher Byrd, Edgar Allan Poe’s Charleston, History Press, 2020 Downey, Christopher Byrd, A History Lover’s Guide To Charleston, The History Press, 2023   Hecker, William F., Private Perry and Mister Poe: The West Point Poems, 1831 Louisiana State University Press, 2005 Jacobi, Jolande, Complex/Archtype/sSymbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1959 Main, Roderick Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, Princeton University Press, 1997 Pitser, Sarah.  Haunted Charleston, Morris Book Publishing, LLC., 2013 Poe, Edgar Allan,  Complete Tales and Poems, Maplewood Books, 2013 Wiles, Julian, Nevermore, The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1998 Jacobi, Jolande, Complex/Archtype/sSymbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1959 Main, Roderick Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, Princeton University Press, 1997

The conclusion of the three part series which combines history, ghosts, true crime and fairytales.

The second episode in a three part series about one of Charleston's lost stories. It is a true story that combines history, true crime, ghosts and fairy tales. 

This is the first in a three part series about one of Charleston, South Carolina's lost stories. It combines history, ghosts, true crime,  amd fairytales.

This episode features the untold story of the origin of King Kong.