The Ghost in the Tower: An Episode in Jacobia

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The Ghost in the Tower An Episode in Jacobia
By Earl H. Reed
Privately Printed 1921
Copyright, 1921 by Earl H. Reed
“HIGH UP ON ONE OF THE HILLS OF JACOBIA”

The Ghost in the Tower
A GHOST never makes the mistake of appearing before more than one person at a time. There may be much logic in this, for the element of mystery, which is one of the essential attributes to comfortable ghostly existence, would be destroyed if that existence should be established at some one time and place by a preponderance of unimpeachable testimony.
There is a ghost in my friend Jacobs’ water tower over in Michigan, or at least there was one there last Christmas eve. To me he was visible most of the time during a long interview I had with him, and to me he had all of the elements of reality. Nobody who reads this narrative will be in a position to dispute his existence, for, so far as I know, he and I were the only occupants of the tower at the time. If my nebulous friend should choose to make himself known to somebody else, it may furnish material for discussion and comparison of experiences in the future, but in the meantime controversy is quite useless.