The cabin boy

Edgar Allan Poe wrote a chilling tale, then real life made it even darker 🖋⚓

In 1838, Poe published The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, a fictional story of shipwrecked sailors who, desperate and starving, resort to cannibalism.

Their victim? A cabin boy named Richard Parker.

Here’s where it gets eerie…

Decades later, in 1884, a real ship, the Mignonette, was wrecked. The crew, stranded at sea, faced starvation.

Just like Poe’s story, they killed and ate the cabin boy.

His name? Richard Parker.

Was it a creepy coincidence, or something more?

Same name.
Same situation.
Same tragic ending.

Poe claimed he made it all up. But how could fiction predict fact so perfectly?

This bizarre case still stuns historians and mystery lovers alike.

Did Poe tap into something unknowable, or was fate playing a cruel trick? 😨📖

Either way, Richard Parker’s name lives on… in horror.