The Horse You Came In On Saloon

Baltimore's original watering hole

Where No Ones Ugly at 2am

The Horse You Came In On
1626 Thames Street
Baltimore, MD 21231-3489


The Horse You Came In On, a pub on the last street before docks, is rumored to have been one of Edgar Allen Poes favorite drinking spots. In fact, one of the female employees, who declined to give her name for superstitious reasons, theorizes that the dark poet, had been walking home from The Horse You Came In On when he died

She believes it is Edgar Allen Poes ghost that resides in this pub. She believes the spirit, which this employee lovingly refers to as Edgar, is responsible for strange occurrences throughout the bar.

Aside from having seen the chandelier swing on its own, the bartender also recounts an eerie memory of one morning when she arrived to open the bar and prepare it for the evening. As she walked by the cash register, its drawer opened by itself. She closed the drawer and went about her business. To her surprise, the drawer again opened by itself. Once again, she pushed the drawer closed. Before the bar opened, she would close the drawer twice more in this mysterious exercise.

At the end of her shift as she was leaving, she told the evening bartender about what had happened. To her amazement, he told her that the same thing had happened to him several times in the past.

The employees have since nicknamed their ghost Edgar and now speak to him regularly. The female bartender says that when one of these occurrences happens, usually around closing time, she speaks to him, acknowledging his presence. Whatever the source of these phenomena is, the employees at The Horse You Came In On do believe in the existence of spirits, particularly that of the legendary Edgar Allen Poe.