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Top 5 Urban Legends of Central NY Top 5 urban legends of been claims of her leaping towards the car to Nicholas is facing charges of larceny Central New York make the drivers crash when she’s feeling over $250 and conspiracy. is facing charges of larceny over $250 (two counts), larceny over particularly vindictive. $250 by false pretenses, larceny from a person Syracuse.com 4. Bird Library is sinking. over 65, and conspiracy. [] 5. Carousel Center is sinking. WE ARE 1. Mall of danger: An email is circulating It’s often said as a joke, but some people warning women about serial rapists in Carousel believe it to be true that Syracuse University’s Center. In the email, a woman informs a group E.S. Bird Library and Carousel Center are STRONGER of her female friends that the mall isn’t safe sinking. The legend rests on the idea that the because 90 percent of crimes that occur there respective architects did not factor in the weight aren’t reported, an example being men who of the books, or whatever objects, inside these THAN WE know where to hide from the security cameras, buildings when they designed their structures. then grab and rape women. The information is Other universities — Brown University, THINK secondhand and allegedly its original source Northwestern University and the University of was a Syracuse police officer. The officer Toronto — have similar versions of this legend. recommends not going to the mall alone after 5 p.m. — including a disclaimer that the rapes Hingham Fraud Psychic’s happen during the day too — and not parking in the garage or any lower level lots. Syracuse Property Now Up For police Sgt. Tom Connellan, reached at a training session to familiarize police with the new Rent expansion of the mall, denied that such things are going on. Hingham Patch 2. Where’s Billy? Rumors have run rampant for a while about Billy Fuccillo, including that he was arrested by the FBI, and in rehab. He denies any of them are true, and told The Post-Standard this week it’s just people “starting nonsense.” When he disappeared from his usual appearances in his signature commercials the speculations began. The truth is he’s been in Cape Coral, Fla., setting up a new car dealership. 3. The ghosts of CNY: Most people love a good ghost story. Central New York has several that have been passed along over the years; including the The property which once belonged to the two Once again Ted Unarce ghosts of Syracuse’s Landmark Theatre, Split psychics who were arrested for allegedly Rock Quarry, and the 13 Curves. scamming customers, is now up for rent on creates a compendium of The ghost of the Landmark Theatre has global insight about the reportedly haunted its balcony areas since her Whiting Street. The building, which was formerly death in the 1920s. There are two versions of known as “Crystal’s Spiritual Reader” no longer current conflicts and how Clarissa, or “Clare,” died. The first is that conditions of life on Earth. she fell to her death from the mezzanine after has a psychic reading sign on its property, appears completely empty, and is now available witnessing her husband get electrocuted and die for lease. Weaving issues on an while working on stage. The other is that she In April, police arrested Teresa Nicholas international and local scale, was an actress who flung herself from the and her accomplice Tiffany Crystal Smith, for balcony after she finding out she didn’t get the involving rich and poor, the role she’d auditioned for. People who claim to allegedly scamming a 69-year-old Pembroke powerful and powerless - the woman out of more than $7,000 during a have seen her say she wears a white gossamer psychic reading at the Whiting Street property. dress and smells of lilacs. Since then more victims have come forward to entire glut of humanity - A munitions plant exploded at Split Rock Quarry on July 12, 1918, killing 50 men. police. Unarce poses the challenge of Police say Smith, who goes by the Fifteen of the 50 men were never identified and psychic name, “Sofie” told the woman there a united understanding that were buried in a common grave. The legend is was a curse on her daughter and if she didn’t we are all endangered in the that the unidentified men’s ghosts still haunt the area, glowing shades of green and yellow pay her $16,000, Smith claimed the daughter 21st century and that only a would commit suicide. According to a police because of the picric acid they were exposed to report, while giving the psychic reading, Smith corrective action by all of us while doing mining work. dropped a bag and red liquid spilled out and said The legend of the ghostly bride who can turn it around. wanders the “13 Curves” of Cedarvale Road on it represented her daughter’s blood. While Onondaga Hill, has several variations. The parts pleading the Pembroke woman to pay her, Smith said, “Isn’t your daughter worth more that all those variations agree on are that a than $16,000?,” the police report said. WE ARE STRONGER newly married couple crashed after veering off The Pembroke woman was scammed THAN WE THINK the seventh curve, or Dead Man’s Curve, on into giving Smith an antique opal ring worth their wedding night over 70 years ago. From is NOW available at there the versions differ. Some say only the $500 and two checks totaling $7,385. Police say Smith told the woman to sell personal items, bride died and the groom left the area after the borrow the money from relatives, or bring a accident so she wanders the area looking for credit card to come up with the additional AMAZON.COM him. Others say they both died. There have also $9,000.