Cascade Job Corps is housed in what was originally Northern State hospital for the Insane. The Hospital opened for business in 1912 and remained an insane asylum until I believe right around 1970. Locally it is referred to simply as Northern State Mental Hospital. In the dorms there are reports of feeling suffocated and seeing shadows. There have been local rumors that people where buried up there. Recently the County has admitted to this fact.
History
The hospital opened in the fall of 1910 and accepted the first 200 patients in December 1912 through January 1913. Early on, people in the area referred to the hospital as the "Bughouse." Some have interpreted that as a derogatory term however it was an accepted term for an asylum by the time the 1913 Webster's Dictionary was published. Northern State was a key local payroll until it closed in 1973 because of state budget cutbacks.
October 2007: WARNING - There is no trespassing. The police will be called and you will be arrested. students have seen a little girl roaming the halls of the dorms with a red ball. In the nurses station they can see a figure of a body hanging up in the window. There are tunnels that lead all over under the campus that have been known to be haunted. You can here moaning and screaming at night. There is also a man that roams outside looking for the little girl.
