Cantoresq and chaimsmom are absolutely right.
Morover when “Jewish Urban Legends” like this are told over (or stories of the supernatural, like those about talking fish) they invariably bring out of the woodwork the following categories of people.
1) Those who choose to believe the story imeediately, becasue it’s a cool story.
2) Those who feel it’s obligatory to believe the story becasue they think that if someone so much as claims a story with a jewish theme is true, it constitutes apikorsus to question it.
3) Those (like me) who assume it to be a bubah maasah, simply becasue most such stories are, in fact, bubah maasos and because there is no obligation to believe them.
You wanna try an interesting experiment? We have all heard that supposedly Joe Kennedy Sr. was cursed by a Rov that he would live to see his sons die.
Ok…Who was the Rav, when did he issue his curse, and why?
Let’s see how many versions we get. More importantly, let’s see what kind of evidence we get.
Good Shabbos.