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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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
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
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.
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.
Unfortunately, escapes usually end up returning (they just want to know what things are like now, and they really have nowhere to go that would be safe to keep their privacy.
The idea of making the asylum on the edge of town means that the authorities know which direction an escapee is going to go. It won't be towards town (or city), as it's fairly easy to figure out that someone has been kept from public domains. Nothing is the same as when they were admitted, so things like video games, and cellphones, and products that never really existed thrill them to no end. Odd questions, and staring at buildings previously unknown, and just total dislocation is pretty obvious to most people. So, most patients would have gone the opposite direction, if they were aware enough to realize that.
❤❤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, ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ 🎉😊
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.
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 3 months late. Thank u for the video I live in MN and was wondering how did u get to nopeming? Did u have to contact someone or just go there? Lmfao my and my ghost hunting crew wanna check it out
There's a small gravel road that dead ends. It's perfect to park at and remote. A little walk through the woods. You'll come up on some doors in the parking lot. A couple will be open. Try to find the stairs because they'll be your best chance at running just in case of police. (People around duluth say they usually patrol. But they weren't there in August) some say the 3rd floor is haunted by the spirit of a little girl. The basement is haunted by the groundskeeper. And the tunnels are haunted by the souls of those who died from TB. I can't imagine how many more peoples souls stayed after the nursing home period of the buildings life. If you explore. Bring gloves, boots, and a mask. It's straight-up asphestos.
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😂
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.
Um, no one gonna mention that he's just casually walking through this creepy place like its a theme park? I'm just watching on my phone n its super creepy. I was really expecting a jump scare. Got some serious brass guy. I'm too cautious, better safe than sorry type, so I couldn't do that. Major props, excellent videos.
