For the second year in a row, the mysterious visitor to the original grave site of Edgar Allan Poe is a no-show, The Baltimore Sun reports.

For almost 60 years, until last year, an unidentified stranger would appear every Jan. 19 bringing three red roses and a glass of cognac to pay tribute to Poe, who died in Baltimore in 1849.

"I will be here in 2012, but that will be it," says Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House, who waited until 5:45 a.m. for the stranger, the Sun reports. "If he's a no-show, I will officially pronounce the tradition dead."

About a dozen people also waited outside the gates of the Westminster Burying Grounds on Fayette Street until dawn, the newspaper reports.