Posted in North Dakota Creepy June 22, 2018 by

Everyone In North Dakota Should See What’s Inside The Gates Of This Abandoned Sanatorium

North Dakota is dotted with the occasional abandoned farm house, empty towns that once thrived, and a few unusual facilities that are no longer in use and have been mostly forgotten about. One of the most notable is an abandoned places in the Peace Garden State is the San Haven Sanatorium. It was once a state facility for tuberculosis patients, then later for mentally ill patients, before being shut down in the 1990s. Today, it still sits like an empty shell of what it once was with a dark past, and seeing what’s inside those grounds is staggering yet fascinating. Take a look for yourself:

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The San Haven Sanatorium was built as a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1912 in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota. Today, it sits abandoned.
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Back when it opened, it was simply known as the State Sanatorium and had hundreds of patients over its time, starting with tuberculosis patients and eventually converting over to an asylum for people with mental illness.
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The huge facility grounds has been left untouched but by vandals for decades now after it closed its doors for good in 1992 due to many issues the facility had.
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What went on behind these walls isn't entirely known, but many consider the place to be haunted and full of a dark history.
Andrew Filer/Flickr
As of now, nature is reclaiming this abandoned place. Even some local horses can be seen foraging around in this photo:
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Inside the buildings you can see just how dilapidated and in disrepair they are.
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Peeling paint, grafitti, broken glass, and collapsed roofs are just some of the many issues going on inside. It looks nothing like it did over a hundred years ago when it was first built.
Dan Turner/Substreet.org
The San Haven Sanatorium is a dull and empty shell and has earned a spot as one of the most notorious abandoned places in North Dakota, and it truly is fascinating.
Dan Turner/Substreet.org

The San Haven Sanatorium is on private property and any exploration of it is trespassing, so the best way to see and learn about it is through photographs. Dan Turner of substreet.org has provided some eerie yet interesting photos of it here that you can see for yourself.

Had you ever heard of the San Haven Sanatorium?