Abandoned Mental Hospital Exploration - Northern State Hospital Ghost Town
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Join us as we explore Northern State Mental Hospital. This abandoned insane asylum is located in Sedro-Wooley, north of Seattle. Rumored to be haunted due to the many patients who died there, we tour the main hospital grounds, plus the nearby farm and cemetery.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:10 - Exploring the Northern State Hospital grounds
19:00 - Northern State Hospital Cemetery
21:54 - Abandoned farm grounds
33:20 - Finding the crematorium
ABOUT NORTHERN STATE HOSPITAL
Established in 1909, Northern State Hospital was once the largest facility for mentally ill people in Washington State. At its peak in the 1950s, around 2,700 patients lived at Northern State. The site was designed by the Olmstead Brothers. The hospital site included patient and staff housing, a water reservoir, sewage system, lumber mill, quarry, steam plant, greenhouse, canning facilities, gymnasium, library, laundry, dining room, bakery, dairy, and a 700-acre farm for growing vegetables and raising livestock. There is also a cemetery where at least 1,500 people were laid to rest.
Northern State Mental Hospital closed its doors in 1976 after the State Legislature cut off funding. Many of the buildings at Northern State have been rehabilitated and are off-limits to the public, but much of the former property is now a part of the Northern State Recreation Area, which can be visited by the public.
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There are so many unmarked graves on the NSH property. I’ve lived in Sedro-Woolley for years. The locals have great stories!!
Yup. We used to go running across them all the time. I was in Job Corp there on the location for about 2 years (95-96). Getting into the back areas of some seriously crazy stuff was in was always fun.
The left side is a drug and alcohol treatment center called pioneer center north.. I was there for 58 days and graduated last week. And they have the job corps on the property as well. But while I was there there was a lot of strange things that happened, like doors opening on their own, chairs would scoot across the floor and I even felt pressure on my bed at night like someone sat down. It was a pretty cool experience. 😁 Thanks for the video guys!!
My Son was there as well. Hope you are doing good!!
Same happened to me in late 2018 had my blankets ripped off of me and thrown out into the hallway as the door slammed into the wall during the middle of the night. I guess that wasn't the first time it happened to someone in that room either!. Im trying to remember the hall name I was in. On the same side of the cafeteria right side around the corner down the hall towards the end 3 man room, my bed was in the middle.
They closed PCN. Crazy!
Northern State was a completely self-sufficient community! Everyone had a job and they worked together to create a community that functioned completely independently from society!
I’m living on campus here as a student - now it is the cascades Job Corps. I see these buildings everyday. this is interesting to watch!
How is it there day to day?
@@chintownfinzt
I went there from early February 2020 to late March 2020, and it was definitely really cool to look around and see the creepy buildings everywhere. Approximately 7 buildings were JobCorps property, but there were still a whole bunch of abandoned looking buildings that we weren't allowed to go to. I heard about some people seeing ghosts and stuff, but I never personally experienced anything paranormal.
There are small tombstones the size of bricks that have sunken into the Earth due to the wet weather in Washington. So there are gravestones, they're just underneath you. they were small and originally only had their patient numbers on them. There is a group of people who are working to find the gravestones that have sunken into the ground and give them gravestones with names and dates if possible to properly lay the patients to rest.
I lived in Sedro-Woolley for over 20 years. This is an awesome place. Have you read on the history? Amazing stuff!!
Is it free and legal to explore?
This was a really pleasant video, thanks you two.
My great grandmother, Hazel Pennington, was admitted there in 1945 for postpartum depression. She lost her baby son at six months old. It was a beautiful new facility, that bragged to have the best medical care possible. They promised a brief convalescence, and to return her home as good as new. After three weeks there, she was given a lobotomy. She lived out her life there, with the mentality of a toddler. I would go visit her in the 60s and 70s with my grandma. She would count to five and then clap her hands and giggle and say “Good girl!”
They moved her to Western in the mid-70s win Northern closed. She passed away in 1976-77
I heard that the cemetery is still there, but all the headstones sunk because it’s a marsh land..
That's heartbreaking 💔
I went there today. Even though it was hot outside, when I would walk up to the windows at the hospital, it felt extremely cold.
What’s the address
nice you visited northern cascades job corps. currently im in one of the dorms. it cools that they allow visitation.
Wow, didn't know they had dorms there.
We did the same thing!! We ended up at the Dairy farm. Weird experience for us, though. Thank you for explaining, and for sharing!!
You're welcome. Pretty trippy place. We preferred the dairy farm and thought it was more interesting.
@@GeminiDiscover We went yesterday. The winds were so strong, and the panels on what I presume to be the barn were slamming down upon the roof. There was a tree that was quite literally twisting in the wind and creaking ominously. There was also a fog encasing the place, all of which really set the ambiance!
I was there today , it’s in a little town called Sedro Woolley Washington,
my mother worked there when she was in nursing school God rest her soul.
Actually a pretty spooky place..
I spent 2 years on my life right next to this place 1986-1988. I even have a photo of the morgue somewhere.
Would be a shame to not restore these buildings.
Fab photos. Good vid.
The buildings are beautiful and spooky at the same time! It would be a great place to create a spooky movie about.
There are no current plans to renovate the main hospital building. The Port of Skagit County would like it to happen but it’s highly unlikely due to the size of the building and the amount of work that’s needed. The building that is connected to it continued to be use when the hospital closed. It has been used as a drug treatment center since 1979. That’s where I work.
Job corps has occupied the north half of the campus since the 1970s.
There used to be a lot more headstones in the cemetery. If you look closely you will see that a lot of them are still there. They only have initials and numbers on them because it would be a HIPAA violation to publicly identify the mental health patients.
Interesting info -- thank you for sharing. It's a shame that the main buildings can't be revitalized -- they're so huge!
@LittleGreyRanger That makes sense regarding HIPAA violation! Super helpful insight!
Not true they have been working on the graves at western state Hopital in lakewood , Wa to put names to the grave sites.
@@ginaferguson290 it is true. I said HIPAA to keep it simple. There were different state laws and hospital policies similar to HIPAA before HIPAA existed. but some things have changed in recent years. In 2015 the state decided that they would allow burial information to be released and just this past year the state decided that any patient files over 50 years old can be available to the public.
Also, such laws apply to the hospital, state, etc. and keep them from disclosing patient information. They don’t really apply to the general public such as non-profit organizations working on cemetery restoration.
A similar thing is in the works for Northern State Cemetery and hopefully there will be a memorial with names on it in the near future. Google “Seattle Times Finding Lilian.”
I hope to visit and film there soon. I have always been fascinated with asylums and this will be my first one. I look forward to paying respects at the cemetery in hopes that they all know that somebody cares.
It is a very interesting place. Not too creepy, assuming you visit during the day. But you can definitely sense the deep history there.
It was first asylum to film... for my channel... loved it!!! 🙂👍💛
Oregon State Hospital in Salem Oregon is where the book One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest was based as well as filmed at.
Yes old dishwasher. Lol the roundish rooms my guess day area (common area for pts to hang out) or recreational rooms. Seeing the baby crib was eerie. As for the cemetery numbers were due to privacy as it was a mental hospital.
I seem to be the only person commenting who actually lived there. It was back in 1988 when the place was called "Portal". It was more like a halfway house than an institution. One half of the grounds was for Jon Corps, the other half for 'mental patients'. The staff instructed us ('the patients') not to speak to those in Job Corps (we shared a common room for food service). The only part of this video that I recognized was the exterior of the building. They let us roam free to walk around it. I took part in a journalism type thing there and worked as a janitor. Their tactics there were like an institution, but they would never tie you down on a bed (like they do at Western State Hospital) and yes - they gave you medication. You were allowed to pick out a bike and ride into town. Boring place to live. Nice cafeteria with a teevee. How do you say BO in pig latin?
I went through there and toured the inside about a year ago, so all of the main halls, operating room, cafeterias, shower rooms, and grand hall with the movie theater. I took a lot of pictures very cool building grounds were designed by the Olmsted brothers. The family of architects who designed the Central Park. It’s maintained by the port of Skagit they would really like to restore the buildings but the cost to do so after all the time that it’s been abandoned as is just too prohibitive. But you can always go visit the grounds in the outside we go there frequently to paint outside. because it’s really pretty area but it is sad all the broken windows now.
how did you get in? i wanted to explore so bad but couldn’t quite fit in
@@katiekraft4847 We went in with host from port of skagit,
I went to job corp here when I was 16/17 in 2001 and that was about 22 years ago and I clearly remember everything from that place , they turned the patients rooms into dorm rooms...I have seen things there that can't be unseen or forgot about ...that place gives me the creeps til this day and yes it is definitely haunted .....even though it gives me the creeps I still want to show my kids if this beautiful place and show them the history of it
You can read about this place in the book "Under the Red Roof".
Keep in mind that you cant get into the buildings and that the "newest" part (built in 50~60's?) is still in use as a Womens correctional facility.
Thank you for the tip!
I was their at Wester Stat Hospital in 1960 I was 8 years old I had my birthday. My older brother was there also.
I went there to visit the job corps back in 1992 the dorms smelled and it looked like a hospital. I ended up going to oregon, astoria job corps Tongue point. Use to be military base had cell in basement for people that needed to be in jail. It was creepy also.
At about 14:29, I'm guessing that part of the building was a children's ward? I've explored outside here a few times and took photos through windows, and I saw paintings of trees and rainbows on the walls there.
That makes sense. One of the "ghosts" that some people claim to see there is a child.
I've been there. I had an experience there I've never had anywhere. I was trying to trick a friend that there was a ghost turning lights on and off. I thought it was the moon. He was falling for it hard. We'd move left and the left window lit up. Move right and the right window lit up. I was watching him freak out, when I looked back at the windows and they were both lit up and then immediately went dark with what looked like a figure standing there. When we went to look inside all the bulbs were busted out and the whole place was a disaster. Pictures half off walls messes everywhere. Couches torn up. Nasty place. And no one was there. And that whole time the crescent moon didn't move. It sat in the same spot the whole 5 minutes this happen. Very strange and unexplainable.
I worked at PCN next door for years. Used to be underground tunnels
I was in Job corps there many yrs ago. They had a Haunted House in that Mental hospital and I played a scary Queen. My goodness it was scary.
hi question! im wanting to go there myself and record, did you need any form of filming permit or were yall okay to film
the thing you thought was an insinuator Hobart brand is an old industrial dishwasher
I lived here for almost a year. this place is extremely haunted and most (not all) the stories are true.
The 1950s car photoshoot, is due to the autumn leaves on the ground and the massive old barn in the background. The hospital is not in the backdrop, it is the barn.
Went to this job corps. It was a dishwasher. Job corps still used the original equipment in the 90s. Everyone got kitchen patrol so I loaded that machine and mopped the floors
Thinking about investigating this place what all is still open to the public, any buildings we can Go into ??
i laid on the thing stanles basin with place for strap head i was in a client at a treatment fasility nexdoor conected by third floor doors or you can crawl up the fire escapethe round pipe it shows like waterslide or covered slide how i got in
I was able to get inside the front entrance wen it was still open to the public only during Halloween and quickly noticed I didn't wana go inside 🙃
What is the address to go visit? I grew up in Sedro and my sister use to go there with her friends, would love to go visit the actual building if anyone knows exactly where to go.
It is the Job Corps in Sedro Woolley. Half of it looks polished and used by people today, and the other half is abandoned and boarded up.
i was born in sedro-woolley and went to school on the old northern state hospital area
Many stones sunk in the mud, but they weren’t proper. 🥺
I grew up in that City we used to party on that property when we were kids sneak through all the old buildings I actually went to kindergarten there when I was a kid
I wanted to go to the job corp there but instead they took me to the one at Nampa, ID. Ironically, it’s also next to a mental hospital lol.
great video! was there no entrance to the inside the building ?
Sadly no. They've all been boarded up and very secured.
@@GeminiDiscover yes its due to the dust and lead in the buildings. also the floor boards are very unstable.
It was built to keep people in, now it keeps people out.
There are also MILES of tunnels under job corps
We've heard that! Any idea how to access them?
@@GeminiDiscover when I was there in 1995 the tunnels could be accessed from the basements of the abandoned buildings. The security office located on campus had motion detection alarms set up and would often chase us out. There used to be an electric chair in the tunnels but I heard they took it out
@@GeminiDiscover the tunnels go all the way into Sedro-Wooly. They used them to transport patients to the court house miles away
@@hornofgabriel0723 definitely no access anymore. They've really boarded up and secured every possible entrance.
That’s a Hobart industrial conveyor dishwasher from the 1950s.
It is an old industrial dishwasher
I also went to job corp there in early 2000's
makes me sad that they got rid of the tombstones :(
They sank into the wet ground.
The graveyard has unmarked tombs. So all the graves have flattened tombstones with letters initials and numbers. And the grass grew over the graveyard
I went to Job Corps there in 1995. Cascade Job Corps Center
It was a mental hospital
🙂👍
Lmao I went to the job corps right across the street from it, the whole place is haunted especially the campus, you can see that whole hospital when you’re walking to one of the rec buildings.
Wow, that is creepy!
im still at it and the tallest dorm building is supposedly haunted
@@mewtonezcat4200 cool... I filmed all around there! Please visit my channel... 🙂
Agree I went there 15 years ago, it was haunted 100%
MY HEART IS BEATING OUT OF MY CHEST
@17:45 it looks like a infrared camera trap for wildlife photography. But who would install this inside a rotting building?
Camera was our first thought as well! I guess that makes sense -- the property owners probably want to clearly monitor whoever passes by. Previously, it was pretty easy to enter and vandalize the place, but they've really secured it now.
It’s a trail camera. They are hidden throughout the buildings due to the excessive vandalism that has occurred since they opened the campus to the public.
its to make sure nobody enters the building they have motion alarms because inside its unstable and dangerous
@@mewtonezcat4200 That and there has been a significant amount of vandalism since the property has been open to the public. The camera that's most visible is watching the only door left for employees to enter the building if needed. The others are boarded up because they were kicked in.
@@littlegreyranger6969 yeah I can see that happening. They have cameras everywhere
Also. . . The cemetery has not been cleared. As you can see from the first stone you recorded, patients were only given a little flat number to mark them. Because of the marsh land, many of the stones have sunken under the ground. Sadly. . . Patients were considered less than people back then :/
Oh wow...thank you for sharing that. The stone markers definitely indicate that the patients weren't respected much. It was sad to see that they didn't even have names on them.
@@GeminiDiscover Not sure if you explored here, but Western State in Steilacoom, WA is making an effort to commemorate their patients by giving them new grave markers with their names on them. I'm not sure if Northern State has the burial records to make that happen, but it'd be nice if they could!
They also aren't allowed to have names on the stones due to HIPAA laws. They just have initials and a number.
HIPPA wasnt around back then. It didnt exist until the 90s
@@codscout3 that is correct. There were also some state laws and general practices regarding confidentiality of mental health patients.
Actually went to the JC that’s across … that was restored. Also had the pleasure of being able to have a tour inside of the abandoned hospital. Very eerie.
I lived there for 2 years
another place to go to is devils tower in concrete
We've been! Filmed it, but not posting the content since it is technically trespassing on private property.
Are you allowed to go here at night? Anyone have any info on if there's security or not?
There is security. I doubt it's encouraged
@@GeminiDiscover Gotcha, thanks for the heads up 👍
My wife works at that facility, it’s a job Corp/ high school, rehab program. Students live on center year round. I have a piece of one of the morgue slabs.
Anyone else go to job Corps there?
A bunch of troubled teens doing drugs and fu¢king when I was there, it didn't put a better aspect on life for me.
UHHHH FREAKYYY....WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO SEE PLACE LIKE THIS? ....NOT FOR ME ! THIS IS SOMETHING I WOULD NOT DO !
Is that the main asylum im trying to find it on the website but it just shows dairy farms?
First half of the video is the asylum which is now in the swift center. Second half is in the farm
Thank you i just wanna see the main asylum and the other one thats abandoned i dont wanna see the farm just the asylums
@@sierrajackson8344 in a way that farm is actually more fun
look up northern cascades job corps.
The main campus is off of Frutidale Road in Sedro-Woolley. The farm is on Helmick Road.
I'm a Washingtonian myself and I still have not visited this place, I sure would love to though
Totally worth the visit. IMO the farm area at Northern State Rec Park was more interesting than the asylum in a lot of ways.
Heather, it is so cool there! I filmed all around the old buildings of the asylum, 🙂
@@erinbricker-urbanhistorian5803 yeah I bet, it looks really cool
@@heatherhahn1996 💛 you should go there, they let you walk all around the outside of the old buildings, you can film and take pictures.
@@heatherhahn1996 please watch my video of Northern State Mental Asylum.
I worked on the fugitve tv series that was filmed here and then returned a few years later to film Bloody mary [1]. ORIGINAL title legend of the mirror witch. the tunnels underneath are awesome. I spent 7 weeks inside the main building where you saw the slide, operation room and patient quarters are all in original 1970s shape. We filmed in there back in 2005. I will tell you that place is creepy at 3 am, I had keys to all the wings and Corey Montieth and I ventured a few nights, we got lost for hours and scared the shit out of us. Good memories but creepy, felt like we were being watched at all times. Rip Corey.
You got any videos of the tunnels u can post
This is in my hometown
Love Sedro Woolly... I filmed around the asylum... so awesome!!!
Mine too.
So... Do you think it's haunted? :)
Most definitely! A lot of patients died here, and there are rumors of at least 2 very specific ghosts seen here. I think Ghosthunters did an episode here too. Didn't feel haunted when we were there, but if alone at night, it would be spooky.
It is absolutely haunted. I’ve worked there for 10 years now.
MaximumDriver... yes, very much haunted! 🙂👍👍
@@littlegreyranger6969Any stories to tell about your personal experience?
What is address?
Google the Cascades Job Corps Center in Sedro Woolley. The farm is in a separate area -- Northern State Recreational Area -- not far from the hospital site.
All these old hospitals did lobotomy, electric shock therapy, insulin therapy, sometimes other forms of psychosurgery, hydrotherapy treatments now considered barbaric especially before thorazine and tranquilizers came along in the 50s.
It is a dishwasher
That last concrete building you showed with the boiler is the crematorium I'm pretty sure.
Yeah, it is. We didn't know it at the time.
The crematorium was demolished in the mid 1990s.
Jon S thank you, I didn’t know that when I was there.
No, it’s not. It’s a meat processing area. The boiler is for smoking the meats. The crematorium is gone.
hello ..have a nice day
Thank you. Is it night where you are?
@@GeminiDiscover ya..I am from India(kannyakumari district)
@@AjaySingh-228 Martin was in Bangalore 2 years ago
@@GeminiDiscover oh thats awsome..Do youhave any plan to visit again?
We'd love to but we can't travel right now and don't know when...
26:26 look at that bodacious badonkadonk ;)))
The other building is currently being used by the military
They put job corp in there , with kids
Think might want check your facts.. I was born in 1978.. I went to that hospital in late 80s .. My grandmother worked there till she retired..
The asylum closed in 76. You’re thinking of a different hospital.
Dude, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST was filmed in OREGON. You are also talking about Frances Farmer who was lobotomized...
The COVID signs is where I work it’s a substance abuse treatment facility
IEEEEE!!!
No HIPPA
Funny how you say it reminds you of one who flew over cuckoos net cuz it was actually filmed there
This video is a little bit offensive… Making jokes about mental patients, comment about lobotomies, which shows ignorance of why they were used, talking about it being such a creepy place, shows that you are enjoying, making fun of a place without really understanding much about it. Even the comments jokingly when seeing some kind of machinery inside that it might be an incinerator. I spent many years working with students at Western State Hospital, which is still there, and it is a wonderful place for treating patients with mental illnesses. You also commented about how many people died there, and if they died there, they died because they got old and had a medical problem that caused them to die. Comments about mental health treatment from many years ago show you have no understanding… Many years ago, they were not necessarily being cruel and treating patients, they were doing what they knew was best at the time. Also, have you heard of an organization called Grave Concerns? They are volunteers, attempting to reestablish, headstones, or recognition of people buried in cemeteries like this. You need to do some more research! And, by the way, making reference to the movie one flew over the cuckoo's nest is also questionable… That movie was made to make fun of the treatment of the mentally ill. And by the way, joking about mentally ill people and their treatment in the past is similar to joking about people of different races
We didn't make fun of it and neither did the movie. Both were made to show how bad it was. You got it completely wrong
You sound really delusional. These people were literally TORTURED. That’s not an opinion that’s a fact. Men dropped their wives off for being argumentative to have lobotomies and were never the same again. Your denial is offensive.
You sound menopausal. Did you know that menopausal women were committed by their husbands for their symptoms? It didn’t take much at all to be admitted and left there as a woman. You are ignorant and should learn this history if you want to go at a stranger trying to correct them.
Hunters
We attempted to be ghost hunters, but it was more crowded than we expected haha.
Yes! 🙂👍