{"id":2062,"slug":"nopeming-sanatorium-duluth-minnesota","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Nopeming Sanatorium is the woods hospital — the 1912 tuberculosis facility that was Minnesota's first county sanatorium, the 'out in the woods' campus that hid the sick from Duluth. It became a nursing home in 1971; it closed in 2002 and the ghost hunters moved in.","The sanatorium was the quarantine — the 50 beds that grew to 300, the Children's Cottage that the citizens paid for, the fresh-air cure that was the only treatment. Dr. Laird ran it for 32 years; the nurses' training school was his.","The building is still there — the abandoned campus in the woods, the tours that were shut for fire code, the sanatorium that's Minnesota's most haunted. The file keeps Nopeming: the 1912 opening, the TB cure, and the building that's still empty.","Nopeming is the archive's sanatorium file — the first county TB hospital, the 'out in the woods' name, and the building that's still closed."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Nopeming is the archive's sanatorium file — the 1912 TB hospital, the Ojibwe name, and the building that's Minnesota's most haunted.","A sanatorium that's 'out in the woods' keeps its isolation — the file's suggestion being that Nopeming's hold is the hiding: the TB quarantine, the nursing-home conversion, and the building that's still empty."]}],"name":"Nopeming Sanatorium","aliases":[],"type":"FORMER_HOSPITAL","type_label":"Former Hospital","cats":["INSTITUTIONAL_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","FORMER_HOSPITAL"],"groups":["dark-history","institutions","legends"],"desc":"1912 TB sanatorium decaying on a Duluth hillside.","full_desc":"Nopeming Sanatorium is a former hospital in Duluth, Minnesota, built in 1912. 1912 TB sanatorium decaying on a Duluth hillside. It sits in the archive under former hospitals, institutional history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Abandoned now: the structure does the storytelling.","address":null,"city":"Duluth","county":null,"state":"Minnesota","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":46.774458,"lon":-92.134135,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ABANDONED","access":"RESTRICTED","access_notes":"Privately owned; has hosted ticketed paranormal events.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1912,"year_opened":1912,"year_closed":2009,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"New record from encyclopedia/official-source pass; VERIFY task auto-queued for primary-source corroboration.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1295,"type":"REPORTED_ANOMALIES","description":"Paranormal events report voices, footsteps and figures in the wards. The site in Duluth, Minnesota gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. Investigators logged it; whether instruments or interpretation produced it is the open question. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Nopeming Sanatorium","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nopeming_Sanatorium","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Opened in 1912 as a TB sanatorium; served later as a nursing home until 2009. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Nopeming Sanatorium'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1912","date_end":"2009","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Nopeming Sanatorium","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nopeming_Sanatorium","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access is restricted; check with the managing agency or landowner before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Nopeming Sanatorium","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nopeming_Sanatorium","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Nopeming Sanatorium","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nopeming_Sanatorium","desc":"Hospital in Minnesota, US","extract":"Nopeming Sanatorium is a former tuberculosis hospital and later nursing home located in Midway Township outside of Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Nopeming roughly translates to \"out in the woods\" in the Ojibwe language.","img":null,"score":93},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}