The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1893-07-18
A MINISTERIAL. GHOST.
1t Haunts the House of Brother Minister
In an Uncanny Way.

IL Haunts the House of n Brother Minister
In an Uncanny Way.
To look at 81 st. Georges road,
Kilburn, one would not suspect it of
being haunted. 1t is a solid, sub
stantial, comfortable looking house,
standing in about the middle of a
rather imposing terrace, with small
garden containing a few bushes in
the front and larger grass plot at
the back. 1t is not by any means a
new house, but it has so few marks
of age about it that self respecting
ghost would hardly have been ex-
pected to regard it as an eligible resi-
dence. Yet there are three people
dwelling in the house who assert
confidently that they have each on
separate occasions been the eyewit-
nesses of remarkable apparition in
the house. Rev. g. S. Tyler, the
minister at present attached to the
Quex Road Wesleyan 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 vari-
Gus ministers who have succeeded
each other every three years at the
Quex Road chapel. Mr.. Tyler and
his family have lived there now for
1S months. IT have never seen the
apparition myself" said Mr.. Tyler,
''and have always been confirmed
unbeliever in spirit manifestations
and so on. But the fact remains, ex.
plain it how you will, that my wife
and my daughters Ada and Julie,
aged respectively 20 and 10 years,
have distinctly seen mysterious
something which in the absence of
any better way of describing it we
have called an apparition. They
agree closely in their several descrip-
tons of the figure. ~.
1T is that Of a person attired as a
Wesleyan minister might be, in
black clothes of clerical cut. It is
a figure of average stature with a
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. II was standing at the cor.
ner of the stairs, she said, land l
saw what took to be papa. I had
gone to call him to tea, and when ]
called him he neither answered nor
moved. / thought he was playing
with me and giving me the trouble
to go up to him, and 1 ran up to push
him. pushed right through the
figure and fell against the wall. ]
was dreadfully frightened, but when
! told the others they laughed at me-
But then Ada, later on, saw the same
figure and then mother herself. It
was before Christmas that l saw it.
No. / had not been reading any
ghost stories at all then. But have
since. So have we ALL"
Miss Ada then related her first ex-
perience of the uncanny visitor She
was alone in the house with child
one Sunday evening and saw the
figure in 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 re-
called her sisters experience. Mrs.
Tyler's statement was that while
passing by the small room at the end
of the passage one evening she saw
Mr.. Tyler standing in there, as she
thought. She ran up stairs to the
study and there found the actual Mr..
Tyler in the flesh. 1t is in this room
at the end of the passage indicated
where the apparition has been most
frequently seen, and the ladies of the
household do not care to venture
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 even
ing. 1T was in that ROOM" said
Miss Julie, that I met the figure
face to face. / shall never forget his
eyes-grayish blue in color-and
they seemed to look right through
me quite hungrily Pail Mall Bud