Edgar Allan Poe Museum
Housed in the Old Stone House, one of the oldest structures in Richmond, the Poe Museum honors the writer who grew up in the city. Two of its most repeated apparitions are a pair of young children seen in the Enchanted Garden, said to be Ege-family children from the home's 18th-century occupants. Visitors and staff report the museum's resident black cats, Edgar and Pluto, nuzzling and reacting to an unseen hand in the garden, as if spectral children are petting them. A man in a top hat is also reported walking the garden at night. Inside, a darker presence is reported on a staircase salvaged from John and Frances Allan's original Richmond home; guests have felt a firm hand near the steps, an experience often attributed to John Allan, Poe's stern foster father. The pairing of Poe's gothic legacy with genuinely old, transplanted architecture has made the site a fixture on Richmond ghost tours.
📍 1914 East Main Street, Richmond, VA 23223, Richmond, VA · Get directions