Most Haunted Places In Grand Forks, North Dakota To Visit

Following are the most haunted places in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where history and hauntings are entwined beneath the shadow of moss-draped oaks. These ghostly locations, steeped in voodoo, pirates, and tragedy, are said to echo with whispers from beyond, stirring in the humid night air.

Altru Hospital

: "Formerly United Hospital - The staff elevator makes several runs per night, often empty. Many staff members have claimed to have seen the elevator open on their floor and caught a glimpse of a figure inside, Strange, unexplained shadows set off the door alarms in the psych ward. When seen on video camera, the shadows appear to slide under the door and reappear on the other side. - April 2007 Correction/ Update: The Altru and United Hospital submissions were combined, United Hospital became Altru sometime around 2000."


Lake Agassiz Elementary School

: "In the auditorium of the school there have been reports of giggles and basketballs moving by themselves. There have also been strange nauseating odors, which come and go. The piano has been heard playing at night when no one else is in the building. The ghost of a little boy has been reported as being seen."


St. Ann's Nursing Home

: "This building used to be a convent for nuns. It was left vacant for years and people have seen a figure of a woman in the bell tower windows. It has recently become a nursing home and the bell tower is sealed off from residents. The figure is presumably Sister Mary Murphy, who through herself from the tower in 1978."


University of North Dakota

: "John C. West Hall - An apparition of a torso of a young girl accompanied by electrical problems, TVs and lights shutting off. The dorm complex (several buildings) is now connected by partially underground tunnels to a dinning center (Wilkerson). - October 2007 Update/Additional Information: The story is that during a cold North Dakota night, a girl tried to take a short cut across a parking lot only to find that the door to the dorm was locked. It is said she froze to death outside the dorm. The tunnel system was later built and connected to the door near where she died. At the time of the incident there were no tunnels."


University of North Dakota

: "Stacher Hall (Technology Department) - Several students have witnessed an apparition of an arm laying on the floor out of a doorway in the second floor graphics darkroom. Each student described the arm as a man''s arm, appearing sporadically throughout the year and visible both during day and night time. A professor conducted soundings of the building and discovered abnormalities on the second floor, tracing them back to the darkroom film developing closets. Most students, without any knowledge of the ghost''s existence, report a feeling of being watched and a brooding presence. Other students have experienced a floral perfume scent wafting through the second floor computer lab during down times for the school, and experienced a sense of being watched by a young woman. This second ghost moves throughout the computer lab area, causes small breezes in a air controlled room."