Thank you for pointing that out,he should of did his homework first before doing the video. I had a cousin who was a patient there until it closed. His wife, a nurse, was there everyday.
That smokestack you see is The Sappi paper mill in Cloquet, MN down I-35S about 12 miles away. Noepeming was closed as a nursing home and rehabilitation facility (for e.g., post surgery) because of high cost. There were also allegations of mistreatment of patients, however, I cannot attest to the validity of such. Duluth area is WAY COOL‼️
My mother in law worked there, my wife would hang out there as a kid. They both have great stories! I went there to pick them up a few times, walked through when it was still full of old people lol. It was a nursing home at the end.
We explored it overnight on a ghost hunters tour in 2018. It was in much better shape then. We spoke with the owner/caretaker. Money was actually being invested into fixing it up. That roof you walked on was fairly new. Sad to see that it is no longer being looked after.
Not an astronomical amount of time if they had computers. (Didn't you say 2002 which is 22 years!) " In the middle of nowhere" 10 mins. to Duluth, you can see it from the interstate! You're prone to exageration!
I lived in Duluth for a few years, just recently moved away in the last few months. You picked a great time of year to visit! A lot of locals advise against going here because cops often patrol it and supposedly there are cameras that they've put up recently. As far as parking, the best place is a dirt road that dead ends just east of the building, and it's just a short walk through the forest to get there. It's really the only way to access the property as the entrance off the main road is gated off. Hope you enjoyed your stay in Duluth, great video as always!
The gate is separated In the front I’ve went jn 3 times in the last half year and the gates been separated enough at the bottom to squeeze in and never seen cameras or had issues with cops
I may have first hand experience with the trespass situations lol basement is fun though. Being outside in the center of the crescent shape at night looking towards all the windows is creepy as hell
@@craigclement8822, and yet none of those dummies ever break out a Holy Bible and begin to rebuke and cast out the demons in the Mighty Name of YAHASHUA HA'MASHIACH (Jesus Christ). I lived in a town that was supposedly heavy in demonic, supernatural, and alien activity, and I had not a peep from them during the time that I spent there.
I moved to Duluth in 1998, and Nopeming was still running at that time. It closed in 2002. It's interesting to see how quickly a building degrades with extreme temperature swings (we can get 100+ days in the summer occasionally, and -20 or more degree days in the winter). They were hosting a "haunted" halloween tour a few years ago, not sure if still doing that or not. It's not exactly in "the middle of nowhere", it's right off of Becks road just on your way out of town. I live just down the street from it. The bars aren't about criminals. It was a Sanitorium in it's early days, to treat people for TB. Later in life it was a mental health facility, and then an elder-care/assisted living residence. Those bars are to keep people with poor motor control and decision making processes from falling off a balcony while still having a mostly unobstructed view of the scenery.
My mother and grandmother (paternal) worked there as nurse’s assistants. Grandma fixed my mom up with her son (my dad). My sister and I exist because of Nopeming, kind of.
It was a home for the elderly. And for people who needed rehabilitation when they had hip surgery and so on. Guess there was a wing for people's other problems. But dude you really shouldn't be talking about a building you know nothing about try asking some of the older locals next time. Beth from Duluth, Mn Unless you have permission to be there you are trespassing. The only time that's open to the public is on Halloween.
Worked at Westville State Hospital in indiana for 2 years..could tell you those places have stories. The movie “ one flew over the cuckoo nest” is real. Be careful there.
Not really in the middle of nowhere, Nopeming is right off of the freeway that goes from Minneapolis / St. Paul to Duluth, and every local sees it on there way to Duluth from the South or West. Everyone i know in the area knows about it but not many people go there becuase the fine for trespassing there is huge and they've had gaurds there for about a decade now. My mom worked there in the 80's or 90's when it was a retirement home before it closed.
Hey, I'm a local to the area, I live in the town a couple miles away called cloquet, I actually have some family history involving the sanatorium, I can share it if you want, also, it wasn't made for insane people, it was made for T.B. patients
@@JoshLucas-v1w yeah, I don't remember exactly who but I do remember that he started a garbage fire in there, he died because he drank rubbing alcohol, he was a severe alcoholic Edit: I asked my mom, it was my great great grandfather, he was there for both TB of the brain due to alcoholism Edit2: back then they also didn't know much about mental illness so if you were a bit different you were thrown into a sanitarium
My girlfriend and I went there in 2021 after seeing it on a ghost hunter show, but the road way is barricaded with multiple chain link fences and no trespassing signs, so this is definitely not just open to all as you say at the beginning.
My Grandma died there about 35 years ago. I remember visiting her there before she passed away. I remember her telling me that the lady in the bed next to hers. Died in a wheelchair right there next to her. Good job staff.
It's too expensive to use for anything as they have to redo all utilities connected to the city which is VERY expensive. My grand parents worked there back in the 60's and my grandpa died there as a resident. I used to go there to do concerts for the residents when i was a teenager. My grandparents lived about a mile from there so I was there all the time as a kid. There used to be a tunnel that when from the facility to the boiler/incinerator building where the dead TB corpses were taken to be cremated. That smoke stack you saw is that building.
@evangelicalcatholics I have a haunting picture of a little girl that also used to perform there from when I went on a tour there in 2018. I guess there was a story that one of the younger children with TB would perform for the other patients but later died. Her spirit was left behind. If you have an email I’d love to share it with you.
I enjoyed this video. As you're walking around, my age made me want to tell you to wear thick boots and some gloves. You don't know how toxic those building materials are. Be careful. I'm glad you're not there at night. Those views from the top were amazing.
Ah, the elitist old people that think that they are better than the young people that they condemn in their lives... here's the thing, you all are just as bad of sources of pollution as those that you all condemn, maybe even more so, in your own lives.
Nopeming was initially a tuberculosis sanitorium and at the time it closed, it had been converted to a nursing home. The bars were in the area the Alzheimer’s patients resided. It was never a sanitarium for the mentally insane. It’s in such a beautiful location. I’m shocked the county never sold it. It would have been an ideal spot for a multiple unit. Apartment building or condominiums.
It was for the "mentality insane" tho my great aunt was sent there for post partum depression and received shock therapy twice and spent the rest of her life there after because she was never the same after. They also tried making it into a low income apartment or school years ago but the building was too far gone. They would have to destroy the building.
This is so sad 😞 I am lucky enough to have toured it a couple of times when they did tours many years ago. I live in the area but have been to chicken to go check it out now. It’s definitely haunted too.
My friends and I went there at night, and when we were heading back to the entrance, a truck came barreling down the driveway. Apparently, a guy lives in a smaller building towards the end of the driveway/parking lot, along with his wife and kids. I forget why he lives there, but he said he is so sick if people trespassing all the time. I actually just remembered he said they give tours during the day.
This place has the strangest energy when you are inside. The crematorium, tunnels, and basement are the oddest. I found lots of what I presumed to be blood near the stage in the childrens wing. Lots of weird stuff going down still
I went a month ago, last summer and last September probably around the time you went the sea of different colored trees were amazing and the snow when we went a month ago made it look eerily cool very fun place and pretty place to go but don’t forget to be respectful of its previous residence I’ve seen shadows heard whispers and bangs been scratched once for antagonizing respect them don’t break anything don’t antagonize if your looking for ghost activity you’ll find it here. If you do go be careful of the roofs and old section please don’t break anything building is in enough ruin
My grandfather stayed there 2 years in an iron lung as a child. He had one lung amputated and later settled in Moose Lake and raised a family. He suffered a fatal heart attack in his 50s. His life was fascinating, I wish I had gotten to meet him, as my mother said we have much in common.
I lived in Duluth for 20 years. I always wanted to check it out. So creepy. I had a Blair Witch Project flashback when you went down the steps to the basement.
6:01 There is a voice after he speeks, im from duluh my great aunt was a resident before i was born she passed my dad tells me storys but the voice is interesting for sounding off in the distance nopeming is notoriously haunted
As of 2019, they say that the fire department has a to do list of things that need to be done. Operating water, sewage, electricity, etc. they closed tours since then.
I was a patient there when I was around four because I tested positive for TB. I didn’t have it though. Maybe your mom was one of my care givers. I don’t remember much about it, just little snippets of memory. I have a picture of my favorite nurse and a couple friends taken there. This was fun to watch.
I like the approach you have when exploring these abandoned places…great job and I subbed👍🏻 I have watched urban explorers and people who went into abandoned mines!! Like the ghost mine show..miss that show!
I worked in Moose Lake years ago, its several miles South on 35 from here.. Its a prison now, but it did house dangerous individuals back in the day. While I was working there, I got to know several of the nursing staff that had transferred to Moose Lake when Nopeming was shut down. I didn't realize that it was that close to areas I've been. I'll opt for the drive by the next time im in the neighborhood. Interesting video. I'm interested in seeing what their tunnels look like, but it can be very dangerous. In other old State hospital sites, its not uncommon to find sink holes in the ground from forgotten tunnels and rooms that just collapsed one day.
My friend "Stretch" is an electrical/data contractor and I recalled Him saying about 25 or so years ago they had a huge job at some institution up in Duluth so I wondered. I just called Him and sure enough, this was it. We started the vid at the same time and watched. He is shocked at how it looks now. It made Him sad. Nice staff and residents.
If you want to read an interesting story about a patient, Google “I was left for dead at Nopeming sanatorium in 1918 fire” by Jean-Michel Cloquet. Poor guy woke up in the morgue after everyone had already evacuated to escape the wildfire.
Back in 2008 this building was bought for MN teen challenge but things were to costly to repair and get in liveable condition it just kinda sat at that point. I don't know If teen challenge still owns it, but they used to have caregivers that lived on site there, my boyfriend at the time was one of them and I would come visit and stay. It was a cool building. Sad to see that it's gone even further down hill. Always had people coming trying to sneak In. Masks, baseball bats, metal pipes. Idk what they thought they were trying to do. Dumb kids. If they'd had just asked to see it I gurentee we would have given you a tour.
I recently lived in duluth. Any time I'd talk about nopeming to my coworkers who lived there for a long time. One worked there before it closed. They both always said it was strange and for sure haunted. I explored the bottom floor and the roof and quickly left with my friends. They say the 3rd floor is haunted by a little girl, and the boiler room is haunted by a mantance man. You can feel so much history in those quiet haunted halls.
I lived there for a year! 2009. I worked for Teen Challenge and they let us live in the newer building for free as live in security. Not haunted. Cool experience though
I live near here. This place is so cool. Did a tour before they shut it down. I heard there's security and watch dogs that live on property so not many people go there.
There's a spot in the woods away from the main building where the crematory is it connects to the main but it gets blocked off. Very intense long time since i explored there
❤❤Respect this place their's alot of spirits in there i have a bad feeling some idiot's vandalized that God Forsaken place 😢 theres alot of sadness im feeling, im clairvoyant My mother rip i heard she was in saint Peters state hospital for the insane befor i was born most of those old state hospitals Cambridge, state Anoka state, Furgus falls state,some of my friends that were sent to those places had lobotomies, shock treatment, they were never the same all have passed away now RIP you guys i love and i believe the ugly things that used to go on in sanatoriums state hospitals, all over this country 😢most were snake pits like the movie, each heart is for my friend's i knew, ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ 🎉😊
Wasn’t it true that patients who were contagious had to be kept away from others so they were placed in the locked ward? Thought I heard that in a documentary on TB.
I respectfully recommend that you educate yourself regarding hazardous materials, including asbestos, lead, and biological contaminants. I have 30 years experience photographing historic properties for the Library of Congress and state of Minnesota (including the Ah-Gwah-Ching tuberculosis sanatorium in Walker), and I guarantee you that you are stirring up a significant amount of dangerous particulates as you walk, apparently unmasked, through this facility. The “hazardous materials” stickers were placed there by environmental engineers for your benefit. Ignoring these types of warnings may have serious consequences for you later in life. I’m not suggesting that you shouldn’t explore them. I’m suggesting you protect yourself properly while doing so. You’re not immune or immortal.
I meant to say the real name was SOROSIOS PARK. BEAUTIFUL PARK. I COULD GO ON AND ON ABOUT THAT MENTAL INSTITUTION..so very sad.some screamed alot, several had terrible bruises. Bad ones, and I remember a young guy said , if any got pregnant, they would abort the child, then tie the woman's tubes.If by chance, someone actually care and visted there LOVE one, they were never told. I remember this mother was going to find out what really went on there, so she put some kind of a camera in her daughter's room. It showed another patient was having sex,with the girl. I guess it came out that ,that behavior happened alot.we as kids were mean as well, we tease them with candy. We were terrible, B ut the guards never said anything, just ger out of here. Things were alot different back in the 60s.
me and some friends went in there at like 11 at night and found bedding from what we assumed was a homless person and it turns out its highly illegal and dangerous to go inside. if anyone decides to go there make sure to wear a mask and gloves. and hide your car😂
It’s not in the middle of nowhere lol, it’s at the edge of hermantown/ proctor/ west Duluth area. Lots of people live around there lol
It was driving me nuts every time he said that 😂 I live just down the road in Gary. This place isn't remote at all lol.
Thank you for pointing that out,he should of did his homework first before doing the video.
I had a cousin who was a patient there until it closed. His wife, a nurse, was there everyday.
Like right next to the highway. Like RIGHT next to it.
That smokestack you see is The Sappi paper mill in Cloquet, MN down I-35S about 12 miles away. Noepeming was closed as a nursing home and rehabilitation facility (for e.g., post surgery) because of high cost. There were also allegations of mistreatment of patients, however, I cannot attest to the validity of such. Duluth area is WAY COOL‼️
You keep talking about criminals and insane, it was to help people with tuberculosis and then a nursing home!
It’s all for views, he posts a lot of fake stuff on instagram too
The criminals were the “medical” personnel
@@softtuned1439 Sanatorium doesn't mean what he thinks it means. 😂
“It’s in the middle of nowhere”.. such a lie
@@MystiKal_Raven - He definitely needs to look up the definition
My mother in law worked there, my wife would hang out there as a kid. They both have great stories! I went there to pick them up a few times, walked through when it was still full of old people lol. It was a nursing home at the end.
Did essentia own that building ?
@@generaltim494I don't think essentia ever owned that building, I'm a local to the area and I live a couple miles away in cloquet
We explored it overnight on a ghost hunters tour in 2018. It was in much better shape then. We spoke with the owner/caretaker. Money was actually being invested into fixing it up. That roof you walked on was fairly new. Sad to see that it is no longer being looked after.
My uncle was there in the late 60's. I remember visiting Nopeming. Nopeming means " out in the woods" or "into the forrest" in Ojibwa.
Meegwich
Know the lady/ couple that owns Nopeming. It’s old and decayed. They can’t get enough trespassers. Don’t think this building will be around for long
@@EpicenterEvents Shoulda been torn down 40 years ago!
@@freddielind5282 Kept it for history. Won’t be around in the next 5 years
@@freddielind5282waiting for stringer media to come explore it 40 years later
Not an astronomical amount of time if they had computers. (Didn't you say 2002 which is 22 years!)
" In the middle of nowhere" 10 mins. to Duluth, you can see it from the interstate! You're prone to exageration!
I lived in Duluth for a few years, just recently moved away in the last few months. You picked a great time of year to visit! A lot of locals advise against going here because cops often patrol it and supposedly there are cameras that they've put up recently. As far as parking, the best place is a dirt road that dead ends just east of the building, and it's just a short walk through the forest to get there. It's really the only way to access the property as the entrance off the main road is gated off. Hope you enjoyed your stay in Duluth, great video as always!
The gate is separated In the front I’ve went jn 3 times in the last half year and the gates been separated enough at the bottom to squeeze in and never seen cameras or had issues with cops
I may have first hand experience with the trespass situations lol basement is fun though. Being outside in the center of the crescent shape at night looking towards all the windows is creepy as hell
The Travel Channels Ghost Adventures explored the building for "spirits" a few years ago.
@@craigclement8822, and yet none of those dummies ever break out a Holy Bible and begin to rebuke and cast out the demons in the Mighty Name of YAHASHUA HA'MASHIACH (Jesus Christ). I lived in a town that was supposedly heavy in demonic, supernatural, and alien activity, and I had not a peep from them during the time that I spent there.
I worked there in '92. Had a lot of fun there! so sad to see it in ruins
I moved to Duluth in 1998, and Nopeming was still running at that time. It closed in 2002. It's interesting to see how quickly a building degrades with extreme temperature swings (we can get 100+ days in the summer occasionally, and -20 or more degree days in the winter). They were hosting a "haunted" halloween tour a few years ago, not sure if still doing that or not. It's not exactly in "the middle of nowhere", it's right off of Becks road just on your way out of town. I live just down the street from it.
The bars aren't about criminals. It was a Sanitorium in it's early days, to treat people for TB. Later in life it was a mental health facility, and then an elder-care/assisted living residence. Those bars are to keep people with poor motor control and decision making processes from falling off a balcony while still having a mostly unobstructed view of the scenery.
My mother and grandmother (paternal) worked there as nurse’s assistants. Grandma fixed my mom up with her son (my dad). My sister and I exist because of Nopeming, kind of.
It was a home for the elderly. And for people who needed rehabilitation when they had hip surgery and so on.
Guess there was a wing for people's other problems.
But dude you really shouldn't be talking about a building you know nothing about try asking some of the older locals next time.
Beth from Duluth, Mn
Unless you have permission to be there you are trespassing.
The only time that's open to the public is on Halloween.
Worked at Westville State Hospital in indiana for 2 years..could tell you those places have stories. The movie “ one flew over the cuckoo nest” is real. Be careful there.
It was a tuberculosis sanitarium, not for the insane. They helped a great amount of people!
@@mjinba07 oops!
Not really in the middle of nowhere, Nopeming is right off of the freeway that goes from Minneapolis / St. Paul to Duluth, and every local sees it on there way to Duluth from the South or West. Everyone i know in the area knows about it but not many people go there becuase the fine for trespassing there is huge and they've had gaurds there for about a decade now. My mom worked there in the 80's or 90's when it was a retirement home before it closed.
Hey, I'm a local to the area, I live in the town a couple miles away called cloquet, I actually have some family history involving the sanatorium, I can share it if you want, also, it wasn't made for insane people, it was made for T.B. patients
How far long ago did you have family there???
@@JoshLucas-v1w my family has been in this area for a few generations
@@Octo-yo4ql were any of them in that hospital for T.B.
@@JoshLucas-v1w yeah, I don't remember exactly who but I do remember that he started a garbage fire in there, he died because he drank rubbing alcohol, he was a severe alcoholic
Edit: I asked my mom, it was my great great grandfather, he was there for both TB of the brain due to alcoholism
Edit2: back then they also didn't know much about mental illness so if you were a bit different you were thrown into a sanitarium
Middle of nowhere? It’s right outside of Duluth.
Damn, that looks beautiful with the fall colors. That place looks dope
My girlfriend and I went there in 2021 after seeing it on a ghost hunter show, but the road way is barricaded with multiple chain link fences and no trespassing signs, so this is definitely not just open to all as you say at the beginning.
The bars are there probably so patients don't jump to their death. Be careful on those roof tops!!
Story those bars were put on the balcony’s because of so many people jumping off to there deaths they put them in and called em “suicide rails”
@@mylifeisameme1212yeah, there's a story of one specific ghost that mainly hangs out around the upper stories around the bars
My Grandma died there about 35 years ago. I remember visiting her there before she passed away. I remember her telling me that the lady in the bed next to hers. Died in a wheelchair right there next to her. Good job staff.
It's too expensive to use for anything as they have to redo all utilities connected to the city which is VERY expensive.
My grand parents worked there back in the 60's and my grandpa died there as a resident. I used to go there to do concerts for the residents when i was a teenager. My grandparents lived about a mile from there so I was there all the time as a kid. There used to be a tunnel that when from the facility to the boiler/incinerator building where the dead TB corpses were taken to be cremated. That smoke stack you saw is that building.
@evangelicalcatholics I have a haunting picture of a little girl that also used to perform there from when I went on a tour there in 2018. I guess there was a story that one of the younger children with TB would perform for the other patients but later died. Her spirit was left behind. If you have an email I’d love to share it with you.
I enjoyed this video. As you're walking around, my age made me want to tell you to wear thick boots and some gloves. You don't know how toxic those building materials are. Be careful. I'm glad you're not there at night. Those views from the top were amazing.
Definitely kicking up tons of lead at least.
went here at night with some friends because we thought there'd be cops patrolling during the day. we just ended up making it way creepier lol
I’ve went only during the day never any patrols least in my 3 times
it is a perfect place for a sanatorium away from pollution and lots of fresh air and rest
Ah, the elitist old people that think that they are better than the young people that they condemn in their lives... here's the thing, you all are just as bad of sources of pollution as those that you all condemn, maybe even more so, in your own lives.
Nopeming was initially a tuberculosis sanitorium and at the time it closed, it had been converted to a nursing home. The bars were in the area the Alzheimer’s patients resided. It was never a sanitarium for the mentally insane. It’s in such a beautiful location. I’m shocked the county never sold it. It would have been an ideal spot for a multiple unit. Apartment building or condominiums.
It was for the "mentality insane" tho my great aunt was sent there for post partum depression and received shock therapy twice and spent the rest of her life there after because she was never the same after. They also tried making it into a low income apartment or school years ago but the building was too far gone. They would have to destroy the building.
@@ellieerikson6063 R.I.P. to your great aunt. Hope she at least found some tranquility there. 🙏🏻
I grew up there, was a great place to grow up
If you ever get close to South Mountain PA there's a old sanatorium, tb hospital complex. South Mountain Restoration Center is what is called now.
This is so sad 😞 I am lucky enough to have toured it a couple of times when they did tours many years ago. I live in the area but have been to chicken to go check it out now. It’s definitely haunted too.
My friends and I went there at night, and when we were heading back to the entrance, a truck came barreling down the driveway. Apparently, a guy lives in a smaller building towards the end of the driveway/parking lot, along with his wife and kids. I forget why he lives there, but he said he is so sick if people trespassing all the time. I actually just remembered he said they give tours during the day.
This place has the strangest energy when you are inside. The crematorium, tunnels, and basement are the oddest. I found lots of what I presumed to be blood near the stage in the childrens wing. Lots of weird stuff going down still
My great grandmother died in that facility. There’s a sanitorium in Ferguson Falls too.
I worked there when it was a nursing home, it gave me the creeps bad. Evening shift too 😳
I went a month ago, last summer and last September probably around the time you went the sea of different colored trees were amazing and the snow when we went a month ago made it look eerily cool very fun place and pretty place to go but don’t forget to be respectful of its previous residence I’ve seen shadows heard whispers and bangs been scratched once for antagonizing respect them don’t break anything don’t antagonize if your looking for ghost activity you’ll find it here. If you do go be careful of the roofs and old section please don’t break anything building is in enough ruin
My grandfather stayed there 2 years in an iron lung as a child. He had one lung amputated and later settled in Moose Lake and raised a family. He suffered a fatal heart attack in his 50s. His life was fascinating, I wish I had gotten to meet him, as my mother said we have much in common.
I lived in Duluth for 20 years. I always wanted to check it out. So creepy. I had a Blair Witch Project flashback when you went down the steps to the basement.
6:01 There is a voice after he speeks, im from duluh my great aunt was a resident before i was born she passed my dad tells me storys but the voice is interesting for sounding off in the distance nopeming is notoriously haunted
Approaches smoking pentagram on floor. 'Why was there smoke? why did it go away'?
Oooooh curtains!
Bro...😂😂😂
New Glarus Wisconsin here, notice your content is in the tri state looking forward to watching more!
Hello from brooklyn wisconsin.
Is that you Roger?
Hello from Park Falls Wisconsin formally of La Crosse Wisconsin. New Glarus is beautiful!
I wonder if I can buy up that property and then renovate, rebuild, restore, and expand on it to turn it into a mansion?
As of 2019, they say that the fire department has a to do list of things that need to be done. Operating water, sewage, electricity, etc. they closed tours since then.
This building contains souls that could be lost or stuck in the in between. Best to leave it be.
@@Smplsnooze lol get a grip on reality.
@@EddieD218 did I ask
My grandma passed away there in 1964. It was a nursing home then. It was never for the mentally ill.
My Mother worked there back in the fifties.
I was a patient there when I was around four because I tested positive for TB. I didn’t have it though. Maybe your mom was one of my care givers. I don’t remember much about it, just little snippets of memory. I have a picture of my favorite nurse and a couple friends taken there. This was fun to watch.
I explored there around the same time you did in this video. The morgue was in that small detached building.
Loved this video! Great job! I wouldn’t be able to go alone 😮
Yo this is crazy I live in Duluth and I didn’t even know there was an abandoned sanitarium here!
Reminds me of Waverly Hills Sanatorium In Kentucky. Both built for the same reason. Both remote. Both monstrous in size. Both unnerving in the dark.
Great video, very beautiful ＋👍🔔
I like the approach you have when exploring these abandoned places…great job and I subbed👍🏻 I have watched urban explorers and people who went into abandoned mines!! Like the ghost mine show..miss that show!
Nopeming was never an insane asylum, it was a tuberculosis sanitarium, and then a nursing home.
That's the purpose of a sanatorium. Allegedly.
Great Fall view. Don’t touch anything in these buildings full of asbestos,lead paint and mold.
I don't know how you went in there alone 😮
I went on a tour in 2018. Very cool place to check out!
The smoke was water evaporation from the wood laying on the floor. It's amazing how quickly water evaporation can happen.
I worked in Moose Lake years ago, its several miles South on 35 from here.. Its a prison now, but it did house dangerous individuals back in the day. While I was working there, I got to know several of the nursing staff that had transferred to Moose Lake when Nopeming was shut down. I didn't realize that it was that close to areas I've been. I'll opt for the drive by the next time im in the neighborhood. Interesting video. I'm interested in seeing what their tunnels look like, but it can be very dangerous. In other old State hospital sites, its not uncommon to find sink holes in the ground from forgotten tunnels and rooms that just collapsed one day.
My friend "Stretch" is an electrical/data contractor and I recalled Him saying about 25 or so years ago they had a huge job at some institution up in Duluth so I wondered. I just called Him and sure enough, this was it. We started the vid at the same time and watched. He is shocked at how it looks now. It made Him sad. Nice staff and residents.
If you want to read an interesting story about a patient, Google “I was left for dead at Nopeming sanatorium in 1918 fire” by Jean-Michel Cloquet. Poor guy woke up in the morgue after everyone had already evacuated to escape the wildfire.
That would be a great place to make a horror movie. LoL
Very cool!
Back in 2008 this building was bought for MN teen challenge but things were to costly to repair and get in liveable condition it just kinda sat at that point. I don't know If teen challenge still owns it, but they used to have caregivers that lived on site there, my boyfriend at the time was one of them and I would come visit and stay. It was a cool building. Sad to see that it's gone even further down hill. Always had people coming trying to sneak In. Masks, baseball bats, metal pipes. Idk what they thought they were trying to do. Dumb kids. If they'd had just asked to see it I gurentee we would have given you a tour.
Really interesting find on this old sanitarium. Wonder if there may be a part 2, since it looked like there were more underground tunnels.
The entrance to the tunnels via the sanitarium is cemented off there’s another entrance by the boiler room but it’s collapsed in
Did you get to see lake superior while you were here? Hope you enjoyed your visit to Duluth mn
They have the Kirkbride Asylum in Fergus falls MN. They don't allow anyone in anymore.
10:21 They used to put peolle on the balcony they thought the fresh air would help TB patients
The bars on the balconies are to stop people from jumping
I recently lived in duluth. Any time I'd talk about nopeming to my coworkers who lived there for a long time. One worked there before it closed. They both always said it was strange and for sure haunted. I explored the bottom floor and the roof and quickly left with my friends. They say the 3rd floor is haunted by a little girl, and the boiler room is haunted by a mantance man. You can feel so much history in those quiet haunted halls.
I’d be terrified to go in alone 😂
Also use to be a nursing home
I lived a couple miles up the midway road from there absolutely never knew this was there
I lived there for a year! 2009. I worked for Teen Challenge and they let us live in the newer building for free as live in security. Not haunted. Cool experience though
Awesome video guys🎉🎉🎉
I live near here. This place is so cool. Did a tour before they shut it down. I heard there's security and watch dogs that live on property so not many people go there.
There's a spot in the woods away from the main building where the crematory is it connects to the main but it gets blocked off. Very intense long time since i explored there
❤❤Respect this place their's alot of spirits in there i have a bad feeling some idiot's vandalized that God Forsaken place 😢 theres alot of sadness im feeling, im clairvoyant
My mother rip i heard she was in saint Peters state hospital for the insane befor i was born most of those old state hospitals Cambridge, state Anoka state, Furgus falls state,some of my friends that were sent to those places had lobotomies, shock treatment, they were never the same all have passed away now RIP you guys i love and i believe the ugly things that used to go on in sanatoriums state hospitals, all over this country 😢most were snake pits like the movie, each heart is for my friend's i knew,
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"REMOTE LOCATION" christ dude the town of proctor is like 3 minutes from it...😂
The smoke.? Was it fog from sun heating up?Those were metal tracks not wood?
Wasn’t it true that patients who were contagious had to be kept away from others so they were placed in the locked ward? Thought I heard that in a documentary on TB.
I'm from Northern MN this is really cool
Went to college in Duluth (UMD), live in Two Harbors. Never heard of this place…
Damn I was there 3 years ago entering in the back through the woods by some trailers. Got spooked by some deer and now wish I went in
Is this hard to get into? Any security?
Very Cool
This is amazing
I respectfully recommend that you educate yourself regarding hazardous materials, including asbestos, lead, and biological contaminants. I have 30 years experience photographing historic properties for the Library of Congress and state of Minnesota (including the Ah-Gwah-Ching tuberculosis sanatorium in Walker), and I guarantee you that you are stirring up a significant amount of dangerous particulates as you walk, apparently unmasked, through this facility. The “hazardous materials” stickers were placed there by environmental engineers for your benefit. Ignoring these types of warnings may have serious consequences for you later in life. I’m not suggesting that you shouldn’t explore them. I’m suggesting you protect yourself properly while doing so. You’re not immune or immortal.
I live 5 minutes from there 15 minutes from an international airport 15 minutes to downtown Duluth
Yeah sad seeing all the windows smashed out, was there only 2 years ago and it was in much better shape.
Been there many times. It’s so creepy.
There was another in Cambridge MN.. Does that one have a giant unmarked cemetery also
I meant to say the real name was SOROSIOS PARK. BEAUTIFUL PARK. I COULD GO ON AND ON ABOUT THAT MENTAL INSTITUTION..so very sad.some screamed alot, several had terrible bruises. Bad ones, and I remember a young guy said , if any got pregnant, they would abort the child, then tie the woman's tubes.If by chance, someone actually care and visted there LOVE one, they were never told. I remember this mother was going to find out what really went on there, so she put some kind of a camera in her daughter's room. It showed another patient was having sex,with the girl. I guess it came out that ,that behavior happened alot.we as kids were mean as well, we tease them with candy. We were terrible, B ut the guards never said anything, just ger out of here. Things were alot different back in the 60s.
Me and my buddy explored this at night while smoking a joint. Creepy place
My great grandpa died here
me and some friends went in there at like 11 at night and found bedding from what we assumed was a homless person and it turns out its highly illegal and dangerous to go inside. if anyone decides to go there make sure to wear a mask and gloves. and hide your car😂
My grandma used to work there
Supper cool
Would have been nice to see this place before it got hit by scarpers
No wonder why the place is haunted as Hell.
Hope you’re wearing your mask 😷, Dude. Holy asbestos.
Um, it’s right off the interstate. Not really in the middle of nowhere.
I'm suprised you didn't trigger the cameras and get arrested like everyone else
Haunted AF
And where do you live, Simon? I live in the weak and the wounded...
I went last year me and two other people man things went left and got scary quick at night.