I went to the Cascade Job Corps in 1985-1986. There was a church, a mansion that belong to the property owner, a morgue. We snuck in to the hospital. There was hospital beds and super archaic wheelchairs. The coolest place really.
This is so interesting to me. I know people with a mental disability who are stable that could really thrive in a situation like this with the animals in such a beautiful scenic peaceful place. Plus working with the animals gives them purpose and dignity.
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Irish Colleen in MN This was an insane xylem a completely operational one at that the residents did not play with animals the residents were being treated for mental illnesses they did lobotomies and crazy insane shit here this was not a peaceful place my husband’s aunt worked out here when it closed down so I got all kinds of cool crazy stories there’s actually a graveyard out there as well and there’s only one headstone and it’s from 1918... all of the rest of the graves are unmarked they just have numbers on little half a foot square of concrete it’s really sad... I took a tour of the hospital and it was very eerie and there were still a lot of original pieces of equipment in there including wheelchairs original documents various different tools garments things of that nature
Hi my is James S Murray USNPS. YACC. I was here from 1979/1981. When was ran by the Forest Service and Park Service. My boss was Dr. Mrs. Barbara Thompson. US FS. This was this was job after school. Lawson St. Bham, Al. It was a place I really love. I was also at Mt. ST.Helens.Y.A.C.C. was here,now it is Job Corp. Glad they are using it.There is a fireplace build by a patient in front of the dorms.Wikes ,Thompson,,Valdez, and Smith.The mayor Spud Wally took me to church one Sunday.I cooked fried chicken for them,and maded corn bread.Mrs Wally would send me an apple pie.I miss 830 Fruitdale Road . God bless.
So sad that the self sufficient places have closed... the residents likely enjoyed their work , and it would be cheaper to maintain a facility if they provided for themselves by farming and gardening. Now the patients just roam the halls with nothing to do. Thank you for sharing. Safe travels
My husbands aunt worked out here when they shut this place down in the 70s they literally just shut the doors and everybody was to walk free... this was not a peaceful place it was actually very sad they did lobotomies and crazy other shit to the mental ill...There is also a graveyard just passed where the stuff was filmed and there is only one headstone that reads from 1918 the rest are unmarked graves with tiny little concrete markers with nothing but a number on it it is extremely sad... I did however take a tour in the hospital and there are several things remaining there are also underground tunnels leading to various different parts of the entire set up... they had a fully functioning dairy farm strictly for the residence of Northern State Hospital the whole thing is extremely fascinating and it’s sad that the buildings have been so destroyed and even more sad that they just one day stop the whole facility and open the doors... my husband’s aunt is still alive however in poor health she was one of the nurses at Northern State Hospital.
It too is sad that the facilities for the mentally ill are still just as bad. Patients are still just being warehoused and given “treatments” that lack efficacy. Many of today’s treatments are marginally better than lobotomies which were the treatment of the day when they were being done. Had a distant relative who voluntarily had a lobotomy in the early 1900s and I believe died of complications from it. It’s sad that we still know so little about the causes and cures of mental illness. There is some interesting work being done on the use of psilocybin for PTSD and medication-resistant depression as well as the gut microbiome connection to mental illness (our diet as medicine).
Near the end, at 23:30 the long tube is emergency exit for second floor, patients would slide down it just like young kiddos do on a playground slide, even ambulatory patients could be slid down. The elementary school (grades K-6) building I went to was built before 1900 and had four classrooms on second floor and we had this exact emergency escape. Imagine the fun we had sliding down this two-story slide!
Hi, just want to say that what you were asking for info on was a milking parlour. It has had all the milking equipment stripped from it though. The troughs that remain were filled with meal through the pipes so the cow would eat a stay content while being milked. The pit in the ground was where the milker stood so the cows udder were all at head height making the job easier. Also at 5.00 the shed u are in was cubicle house for the cows to rest while not being milked if weather outside wasnt suitable. The bars seperating the cubicles have been removed though, and they ground is sloped makin it easier for the workers to scrape the cow dung away every so often. I will attach videos of what it would have looked like in its hey day. It would have been quite top of the range for its time.
I wondered when someone would post that it was a 'milking' area. I grew up on a dairy farm and recognized the area right away. It also looks like there were pens for calves.
The last building you showed is the nurses quarters. On the back side of that building is were job corp had a rec room. But students are not allowed on the side you are at. Now when you pulled in there, if you go left to were the main entrance to the job corp is theres a building on the left that is also part of the hospital. That was the doctors quarters, on the second floor there is a small balcony that a nurse hung her self in the 40's.
the first place you asked about looked like a milking parlor the milk collectors went in those holders, and in the second place the cows were held there and the floor slopes to the middle to cleane out the cow muck.
Just to let you know this building is owned by the city of seddro woolly including the farm buildings. The other billing buildings are part of the job corps, and the building that is connected to the biggest one you were looking at which is why it has power is actually a drug treatment facility called PCN. Believe it or not both these buildings are in very great condition given their age there’s really not much damage aside from the windows that have been broken do you chew overgrown trees, also the last building you looked at in the middle is actually the chapel and is being used as storage at the moment but they do you plan on restoring it. I was actually part of the cleanup crew to clean these buildings just a few months ago actually is why I know so much information about them.
So that place is now a drug and alcohol treatment center called pioneer center north and I graduated from the 58 day program and I had several crazy experiences while I was there. My closet door would sound like someone was trying to open it almost every night, I felt pressure on my pillow that had enough weight that it actually made my head turn, and one day I was getting ready to take a shower and we had chairs by the showers to put our clothes on and I heard one of the chairs scoot across the floor... And no one else was in the bathroom with me, then when I got in the shower I heard the chair move again. Haha. Pretty cool stuff. I know they used to do lobotomies there as well as electro-shock therapy so there is some angry energy there for sure.. Thanks for the vid! Check out a book called "Under the red roof" it's about the history of northern state hospital😁
Thank you! I was also there for two months, in 04-05..a co-ed drug rehab, and i remember seeing the swing swinging by itself one day with no breeze, in back where the walking track is/was..that was the creepiest thing i experienced...it was a tumultuous time for me, but i liked the college feel of it, and we had good food! The grounds were huge, and the old buildings pretty creepy. Anyone who got to work upstairs cleaning did not like it...
Just recently discovered your channel. What great fun. Have been going over past episodes and found this one. When I was in high school in the mid to late 60's my horizon club group volunteered at the hospital playing games, visiting and just being with the patients. Interesting to see what has become of the location after closure. We never really got to see the workings of the property.
In the first portion of this adventure you came across a building with some stainless steel equipment in it I recognized the manufacturer name right away, it was DeLaval. They manufacture, install and service equipment used in the dairy industry. As much as I love a great Canadian adventure interesting to see you venturing beyond our boarders too.
Man your videos are awesome. Insanely well produced, interesting, informative, and entertaining! Definitely the best exploration channel. No silly gimmicks or senseless fake suspense. Great job! -Fellow Canadian
The boilers sent hot steam through the buildings in order to keep heated. That pipe going from downstairs to the upper floor was a steam pipe from the boiler room to send it to heat the upper floor. Basically the same as a steam train minus the gears and pistons.
I live in Washington, just a few miles south of Seattle and this stuff is my favorite! I love learning about the history and seeing what things use to be like. It's extremely sad seeing how these mental hospitals were just closed down with no help for the patients. It's a problem throughout the whole country. So now they just throw the mentally ill in jail instead of trying to help them. It's scary and sad. Thank you for the video. I never knew this place existed! Also thank you for the respect you have for every place you explore.
nice to see that you and your friend are on some new adventures. one of my daughters and i watched all your videos, this kind of stuff is our cup of tea. thank you.
This is our backyard, we visit weekly to walk the dogs and find things we’ve not seen during previous visits. Job Corps is in some of the buildings on the main campus as well as Phoenix recovery and The Army Reserves. The last building you showed the “unique” one is the chapel/gymnasium. I have photos of the inside of that one. The architecture of the interior is absolutely amazing. There is also the old mansion site, though the mansion was demolished in the 90’s the ruble was buried in the basement and filled the rest of the way with soil. There is the pool as well, just behind the mansion site and is still there, although has trees they have grown through it over the years. The farm portion is amazing too. You need to visit the cemetery. There is a single headstone of John Davis in the southwest corner. The rest of the remains that were buried were simple cement markers with a number, about the size of a brick.
TT Tt - yes creepy, but very cool and interesting!!! 😃👍👍 Can’t wait to go there and film for my channel!!! I’m only an hour and a half away from it! Been once, but at the time they weren’t letting anyone walk around.
Binge watching your vids. One of the barns that you where in & showed the little cement container in the corner & you wherent sure what it was used for. It's probably built for salt blocks. Cows liked to lick them.
I was a student there as well.... but I had clearance to go anywhere there even in the tunnels. I was lead facility maintenance and top student(not saying much)
The way that area was laid-out, which you called a "feeding area," it's more likely to have been a place where they milked cows. They might have been using the cows to train patients in useful skills, so they could be released into work-programmes or something along that line.
Coastal Animist definitely! Would have been an old milking parlour. I grew up on a dairy farm. They put feed bins in to get the cows to come in and stay calm. They maybe have had approx 5 to 6 cows on each side. The pit between is where the Miller would go to milk them at shoulder level.
Nothing dispels the romance of farming quite like the features of a dairy. Good, solid, original construction has kept those structures standing long after the warehousing of humans ended. The octagon shaped structure was probably a group therapy and music therapy room. The large hospital kept the patients in a barracks like situation, segregated by sex at night, heavily medicated (Thorazine) by day. A real nightmare.
@@WendyAllen-df5yg It was and remains contraindicated in the elderly. Otherwise healthy but mentally ill would receive Thorazine for all the wrong reasons-no one to watch or assist them, and it suppressed their agitated or excited mental state. It made management easier…Ugh.
Radiators is the word you're looking for. They circulate warmth with steam that condenses back to water. They used to have that type of heating at the mission Dustin.
I have a chunk of marble from one of their morgue slabs. They had a haunted house like 7 years ago and they took you through the chapel building and used items from around the site, students played all the parts.
I went to job corp there when i was 16/ 17 and seen some things that can't be explained and it was 22 years ago and I can still clearly remember that place like it was yesterday...that place is haunted and gives me chills and still creeps me out...I lived on the second floor and the guys lived on the first floor ...I know a lot about this place ..so many memories from 2001...the buildings have stairs from the one hall down to the first floor where some patients lived and also killed there ..some buildings weren't allowed to be entered because of the nurse station that is there ...I can clearly give you detail by detail about the inside the buildings that they used for job corp program...they made the old patient rooms into dorm rooms and a lot of us didn't want to sleep there 😮
I went there the other day and made a video about it. The place is all boarded up and I plan on going back when the weather is a little bit sunnier. I did the house farm dairy tour. The part that looks like a slide reminds me of taking out the trash . I was wondering what that object is also. My guess is as good as yours .
Very cool. That big tube going down the building is a fire escape. We had a Halloween party at a insane asylum. We decorated the room with the fire escape an people were going down it all night. We put a mattress at the bottom.
It is pronounced SEE dro Woolley. I remember when it closed and the wisdom of the government to send all the people back to the communities to take care of without financing to do so. Orphan homes were also dispatched.
They did the same thing in the States. They closed the large facilities and were supposed to open residential facilities. They saved money by dumpitthe I’ll on the street and never followed through to fund the residential care facilities. Very slick, very sad.
Not sure people read posts on videos that are four years old but I use to live right next to the Northern state mental hospital for over two years which shared the same campus. Weird thing is though, I don't recognize any of these buildings shown here. Makes me wonder if the changed locations. I was at Cascades Job Corps which I know is still there. I also remember that we as jobbies (what we as students were called by the locals in Sedro) were not to talk to the patients on the other side of the food hall. Where we stayed in the Job Corps center was also part of the hospital at on time. I know this because there was a building we weren't allowed to go into which was a morgue with a draining/embalming table. I passed by it everyday on my way to plastering class. But, I never saw those buildings you walked through on this video. Anyway, would love to know where this was located in comparison to where the hospital is now? Just FYI, good video!
That room that you were in had the stalls and feeding things was the milkingthat pig pit in the middle of the room was where the workers would stand and milk the cows
the repurposed buildings are actually student dorms, cafeteria, gym and schools .im currently in one of the dorms. its basically a school for medical and computer stuff.
That was a really cool explore. I bet the octogon shaped rooms, were day rooms. And the last time I saw one of those hose things, coming out of a window, was during a renovation, small debris is passed through it & usually a dumpster is at the other end, on the ground. The crematorium gave me chills.
I have generations of family that worked here.. I have a pic of my great grandmother who was working the front desk which was over in the job Corp section.. she also was a switch board operator for northern state hospital.. in fact before I ever knew this place existed or knew my familial ties to this place I had dreamed of northern state hospital many times.. as well as my great grandmother.. in my dreams she helped me escape when I was slated for a frontal lobotomy.. I didn't know it was my grandmother I was dreaming about until my mom showed me the pic of her working the switchboard... then I immediately knew.. anywho.. I actually have a really long story about dreaming about northern state hospital.. im not going to take the time to type it out.. but if I ever finish my book it will be in it..
Where I grew up in Lapeer Mi. they had a state home for mental illness for many years. They had cows etc....and gardens. Baby’s where born there and many grew up in State home. Farmers in the area used many residents for hand labor in farms. The State home grew and harvested most of there food. It also had schools for the younger kids. Self sufficient . They ended up closing in the 1970’s.....now it’s a prison.
The facility in BC was operated on a similar basis. Cows, chickens, pigs were raised for meat and milk, huge vegetable gardens and orchards for fruit and veg. Patients were hired out by local farmers for harvest and various jobs that needed doing though I doubt they received any pay for it. Sounds like it was common for mental patients to be used as free labour for the states and provinces
in the 1980"s we worked at the Job Corps facility there. The kids were always trying to get into the old buildings. That shoot was used in case of emergency and the round spaces were sunr ooms for patients.
4:12 that an old milking room. I know this because my friends dairy was set up the exact same way and i worked there for 2 summers. 24:27 that be the onsite church
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That building with the animal feeders was probably a dairy. The cows would walk down the side isles and stop at the feeders. Each cow and an individual feeder. The ranch hands would stand in the middle area to milk the cows while they fed. There was probably machinery for the milking part.
The floors are slanted to let the urine and feces have a place to pool too so it can be scooped out and used elsewhere. And the reason the roof on the barn is still holding out is because of airflow the wood doesn't stay damp or wet as long as wood inside the brick structures.
They used to offer tours through the property and as well through some of the tunnels. Maybe once this covid-19 stuff is over they'll hopefully resume doing that. Unsure if they'll let you film though..
hey my bro, at 5.16 you wanted to know what it was, to me it looked like a stand off pad where the cattle would go in crappy weather and also as a feed pad
You need to study more about this place. Also, whoever is watching this. Do not tresspass like this man. The dairy farm, cementary, and cannery are all public property. The main facilities are private property and owned by the state and jobcorps. Do not go into the buildings as there is a massive amount of abseteos floating around.
he didn't trespass anywhere. i was just up there today and went to the same places he did. the only no trespassing signs were at the asylum so people didn't go in. nothing in this video is trespassing
@@absric5563 I just spoke a while back to a friend that within the last year they opened up part of it. You're totally correct. But a lot of older videos from other people years previously were trespassing.
@@absric5563 this is true he did not trespass in any way in this video the land interest owner the Port Of Skagit gives full access to the grounds and common areas to public but not the buildings as all have keep out or no trespass signs. but he also did not go through the appropriate channels to be filming so close to the school also known as Job corps or North Cascade institute or the current State rehab facility I assume as I have spoken with Management for bolth in the past week to seek permission for aerial, still and video photography I know very well about this and I'm currently going through the paperwork process but if they were to see this video because there's no written consent from the school and there are minors students present in all common areas things could get messy.
At 4:00 it´s seems like you stumbled upon some sort of feeding system. Not really sure which but it´s made by the swedish company de Laval, (named after it´s founder Gustaf de Laval), probably most known for milking systems and systems for separations of cream as the one you found in the old store that closed down in the 60s.
Nice video! How do you get to the location at 18:37? Is it by foot somehow? I've explored the dairy farm area, but I've never been able to figure out where that other part is.
I remember when during the 1970s and 1980s deep tax cuts in state and federal taxes became very politically popular in the U.S. and many of these facilities were emptied of patients and closed. So many of the former patients were simply put out on the streets to fend for themselves and our homeless population in the U.S. began to soar. Mental hospital beds are so extremely limited now that folks are left on the streets to sort out their own problems, mostly in jails or hospital emergency rooms. It seems like a cruel mess. I wonder when people will figure out, you get what you pay for.
I kinda think, why would there be ghost at crematory? Same as a cemetery. Like just hang around where bodies were burned/buried as opposed to places that are meaningful; good or bad. Spirits or residual energy would be more likely to exist in the living or work areas, the places they lived or died.
