The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-14
4 HAUNTED HOUSE.
Strange Story of the Expert
ence of an English
C~lergYman's
Family.
THE [GHOST A MINISTER.
And DULY Frightened the Women
Folk-How He Looks.

To look at No. 81, st. Georges
Road, Kilburn. London, n would
not suspect it of being haunted. There
is nothing of the tulnble-down, ivy
covered ruin about it which the
Christmas numbers have taught the
world to associate with ghosts. 1t is
a solid, substantial. comfortable look
ing house, standing in about the
middle of a rather imposing terrace,
with a small garden, containing a
few bushes in the front, and a large
grass plot at the back. II is not by
any means a new house, but 1t has sc
few marks of age about it that a sell
respecting ghost would hardly have
been expected to regard it as an elig-
ible residence. Yet there are three
people dwelling in the house who
assert confidently that they have
each, on separate occasions, been the
ey-e-witnesses of a remarkable appari-
ton in the house.
The Rev. G.. s.. Tyler, the minister
at present attached to the Quex Road
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, and his
family, who are the eyewitnesses of
the ghost, have told a reporter about
it. The house has, for many years
now. been the dwelling place of the
various ministers who have succeeded
each other every three years at the
Ouex Road Chapel. Mr.. Tyler and
his family have lived there now for
eighteen months. II have never seen
the apparition myself said Mr..
Tyler, land have always been a con-
firmed unbelieyer In spirit manifesto
tions. and SO on. But the fact re-
mains. explain it how you will, that
my wife and my daughters, Ada and
Julie. aged respectively twenty and
nineteen years, have distinctly seen a
mysterious something. which, in the
absence of any better way of describ-
ing it. we have called an apparition.
They agree closely in their several de-
scriptions of the figure.
DRESSED LIKE A MINISTER.
ut is that of a person attire1 as a
Wesleyan minister might be, in black
clothes of a clerical cut. 1t is a fig
ure of average stature, with long
gray beard and keen peculiar eyes.
1t was my younger daughter who
first met with the apparition. She
will tell you in her own way" Miss
Julie Tyler then took up the story.
IL was standing at the orner of the
stairs" she said, land / saw what |
took to be pa. / had gone to call him
to tea, and when / called him he
neither answered moi moved. /
thought he was playing with me, and
giving me the trouble to go. up to
him, and | ran to push him. / pushed
right through the figure and fell
against the wall. | was dreadfulIy
frightened, but when / told the others
they laughed at me. But then Ada,
later on, saw the same figure, and
then mother herself. 1t was before
Christmas that / saw it. No, l had
not been reading any ghost stories at
all then. But I have since. So have
we ALL" Miss Ada then related her
first experience of the uncanny Wis
itor. She was alone in the house with
a child on Sunday evening, and saw
the figure i'll the doorway. She
thought a man had broken into the
house at first, until she observed the
clerical cut of the figures garb. and
then recalled her sisters experience.
THE MOTHERS EXPERIENCE.
Mrs. TyIer's statement was that
while passing by the small room at
the end of the passage one evening,
she saw MI. Tyler standing in there,
as she thought. She a upstairs to
the study and there found the actual
Mr.. Tyler in the flesh. 1t is in this
room at the end of the passage, in
deed, where the apparition has been
most frequently seen. and the ladies
of the household do not care to ven
ture near it alone. 1t is a small room
looking out on the back garden, but
with wooden shutters, which are
fastened over the glass in the evening.
1T was in that room, " said Miss Julie.
that / met the figure face to face. I
shall never forget his eyes-grayish
blue in color, and they seemed to look
right through me quite hungrily."
1t was a strange experience for the
reporter to sit listening to these ghost
stories in broad daylight, for the
minister and his wife were responsible.
Unconditional, clear-headed folk, and
the two daughters are bright, intelIi-
gent English girls, with an absence of
any indications of hysterical disposi-
tions. They were as firmly convinced