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10/22/2005
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Ghost hunters claim old school is 'actively' haunted
Author: The Norman Transcript Source: CNHI News Service
Title: Ghost hunters claim old school is 'actively' haunted
JOPLIN, Mo. Beneath a waxing moon, a team of paranormal investigators haunted the old Prosperity School recently and declared that some of the inhabitants were not among the living.
They trained infrared cameras on halls and stairways, swept the building with electromagnetic sensors and dowsing rods, and held seances in the hope that this would be the investigation to yield irrefutable evidence of the afterlife.
"My mission is to capture a full-bodied apparition on videotape," said Karen Shillings, the director of the Central Arkansas Society for Paranormal Research, or CASPR. "Ultimately, that is what every ghost hunter is seeking."
The two-story, brick school was built in 1907 and named for the two-fisted mining camp that sprang up in the decades after the discovery of lead in a field. Although Prosperity is now little more than a handful of houses along County Road 200 northeast of Joplin, at the turn of the last century it was a thriving but sometimes violent town of 1,500 residents.
By the 1940s, however, Prosperity's luck was running out, according to local historian Brad Belk. The school closed in 1962 and sat vacant for 30 years before being renovated into a bed-and-breakfast.
It is now owned by Janet and Richard Roberts, who moved from Dallas after purchasing the school over Thanksgiving 2002. The couple say their guests have reported some unusual experiences, such as ghostly knocking and otherworldly voices. Janet Roberts, 53, said she hasn't seen anything unnatural, but 56-year-old Richard Roberts allows witnessing "a dark figure" of a man walking from the kitchen to the front door.
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