KERRI FIVECOAT-CAMPBELL
Kearney, Mo. - Jesse and Frank James and their bank-robbing gang are the stuff of Wild West legend. So are rumors that their boyhood home here is haunted.
The James farmstead home is now a museum, and tales abound that a few employees have seen faces of a man and a child in the windows. Others have heard strange noises, and one employee reported that a mouthpiece from an antique phone flew across the room, hitting her in the face during a tour.
Members of a ghost-hunting group in Kansas City set out last weekend to see whether the house is haunted. The home is where Jesse and Frank's eight-year-old stepbrother, Archie, died during a raid. "There was a lot of tragedy on that property," said Brenda Marble, the group's co-founder and lead investigator.
In each room, Marble and her group set up the large array of electronic equipment. One psychic with the group, Misty Maeder, couldn't get her video camera to communicate with her computer. Was it ghostly interference or a tired laptop? Maeder couldn't say.
When it was Maeder's turn to do a reading in the kitchen, she paced in front of the fireplace, clutching a mini-digital recorder while relaying questions from museum employees to Jesse. Maeder said that Jesse told her that he had a previously unknown child with an Indian woman in the Oklahoma territory.
Maeder believes the house is haunted, but not by members of the James family. Joyce Morgan, another psychic in the group, thinks that the family's spirits visit from heaven - but that there are no ghosts, whom Morgan described as beings who haven't entered the light.
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