Throughout the years, there has been stories about the Christmas House and a child's death.
Whenever I meet someone with a Forest Park connection, they ask "Where?" and I say the
Christmas House. This even happened on a flight to Hawaii. They heard that the death either
started or ended the Christmas decorating. My guess is that it is somewhere in between.
In 1979, my mother was interviewed by a reporter from a local newspaper and asked,
"What was the strangest thing to ever happen concerning the Christmas decorations?"
Mama said in 1965 one of the girl carolers that lined the front porch was taken. The policeman
who found the caroler, which had been tissue papered and dumped in a yard in
Mountain View, knocked on our door. Mama was at home, Jay and I was at church.
The policeman told her that her "girl" had been picked up. Well, she thought her daughter had
been kidnapped. She was so "frightened", she just stared at him. When he realized what he
had said, he told her he meant the statue. She started laughing and had to go to Mountain
View Police Station to pick up their "little girl." I did get a big hug when I got home.
This funny story was passed around for years.
No matter how many times I tell people that there was no death of a daughter or a sister,
I think they still prefer their version of the legend of a little girl's Christmas tragedy, and not
the truth from "the little girl."
VICTIM... 1ST ON LEFT
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