This was posted to another forum, but I thought it merited being posted here as well, seand said,
"Often when I describe where I live (Cedar Park, south of Baltimore Ave) to an older resident of the city, particularly long-time residents of other neighborhoods, whoever I am talking to repeats the same UC urban legend. It starts "Those are some beautiful homes out there but . . ." and here it is always something like "my cousin's friend" (or someone similalrly seperated by slightly less than7 degrees of seperation) was renting a house "out there" in the bad old days of the Reagan years and "crackheads chopped up the beautiful woodwork and burned it in the fireplace". I have heard this story from so many disparate sources who can't all have the same "cousin's friend" that I have come to realize it is like "the german sheppard who ate the baby" that everyone in every city in America knows someone that Knows the person it happened to. Does anyone out there if there is any actual historical origin for this often repeated urban legend? Or do you have any other good uban legends or ghost stories related to the neighborhood?: ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
