PINE CITY, Minn. — The chilly fall weather will send a shiver up your spine — and so will the Pokegama Sanatorium near Pine City.
Realtor Jan Rolfe doesn't live in the 8,400-square-foot facility with 12 rooms on each floor, but she believes ghosts do.
"Actually, the whole town says it's haunted," Rolfe said with a laugh.
The sanatorium was built in 1905, and up until World War II, held many people with tuberculosis who would either recover or die there. It's had a number of owners but has been left vacant for around three decades.
Listed for sale again, the $120,000 property comes with conditions.
"They could be just as curious of us as we are of them," said paranormal expert Eric Moen, who placed the sanatorium on his "most-haunted list."
"This was a classroom and they had desk in here and a chalk board on that wall," Moen said. "When we were down here, we heard a 5-year-old running up and down the wall."
According to Moen, a tunnel in the basement of the hospital used to connect to other buildings on the property. He believes it holds the most paranormal activity.
"This particular voice said, 'Watch us from hell,'" Moen said.
A KARE 11 crew checking out the site on Friday didn't experience that, but, they did experience something else while exploring the sanatorium's basement.
"Did you hear that humming?"
A haunting in Pine County on a dreary Friday the 13th in October.
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