This is a rather mild ghost story – no screeching or howling at night, no rattling of chains or teacups – but the new owner of 162 East Main St. in Tuckerton, Elliot Garcia, thinks he may have inherited a ghost when he purchased the beautiful Victorian house two years ago.

The house, built by Capt. Napoleon Bonaparte Horner for his wife, Mary Hanson Horner, in 1868, has withstood years of trucks rumbling past its Main Street location and the stone foundation has had to be strengthened with concrete, but the original beams that came from Australia on one of Capt.