What Orison is doing is trying to save a building and they are exploring multiple income streams to make that happen. I’m just a fellow traveler, and I really hope if I ever met you that I didn’t try to make you feel like less of a person. I’m getting on a bit of a tirade here, I need to reign this in.Ī controversial topic has always been if paranormal investigators are exploiting the history of a location. I’m not your minister, your psychic, your healer, or your God. That’s your personal belief that you are going to have to deal with later, and I really just don’t care. I am already secure in my personal beliefs and experiences, and my life’s purpose is not centered around trying to convince anyone who is essentially walking around empty and soulless. ![]() To me, the point is not really to prove anything. I recently met a terribly rude lawyer who berated me and insulted my intelligence for writing “one of those ghost books.” He sneered at me and asked: “How can you write about that? I don’t believe in that.” I smiled sweetly and asked him how many books he’s been paid to author. His eyes opened wide, just like his mouth, but he couldn’t make a number come out. It really is a subject sort of along the lines of religion, politics, and sex. People have strong opinions about the paranormal. My favorite quote from the article comes from Tanya Graysmark, who is on Orison’s Board of Directors: “I don’t think any of us believes it’s haunted, but Orison will gladly accept money from people who would have Americans believe otherwise.” I think that’s exactly the way to be. Funds are low, so the owners have listed the property as available for filming with the Minnesota Film Board’s website and they accepted the offer (it was not listed what their site fee was) from the Travel Channel for Ghost Adventures to film and investigate. The reported goal was to turn the property into a charter school for special needs children. is a non-profit that assumed ownership in 2009. The building is not open to the public, and that was made very clear in the episode and in the article. The owners were interviewed in an article for the Twin Cities Pioneer Press (linked below) prior to the episode airing. It was then operated as a nursing home until it finally closed in 2002. ![]() Like Waverly Hills, Nopeming was built in the early 1900’s to serve as a tuberculosis hospital. The history of Nopeming Sanatorium is very similar to that of Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky. I thought the whole tone of the show was respectful, informative, and tastefully done. I don’t watch a lot of television, and I especially don’t watch a lot when I’m working on a new book project, but I am glad I caught this episode. I recently caught the Ghost Adventures episode on Nopeming Sanatorium in Duluth, Minnesota.
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