Home Sweet Home
Now an antique shop, this old four story building is haunted by two ghosts. The first ghost is that of a man who hanged himself in the attic. Now blocked off by a door, the attic constantly has a frigid draft. Also the candy in the room is moved from dusty jar to dusty jar; there are never any fingerprints, however. The other phantom is that of a man that drowned in the river behind the house. At 4:39 AM, the time of the man’s death, it is said that the accident may be witnessed again.
actually that is true i have been there i really did not think it was scary it was actually more kool then it was scary.
Comment by Josie | 10.31.2005 | 1:35 pm
hey josie i miss you when are you coming back to minn.?
Comment by shane | 10.31.2005 | 1:36 pm
i really believe that ghosts exsist i try as hard as i can to take pictures of our so called friends but so far no luck.
Comment by jeni | 01.25.2006 | 5:50 pm
whitch one shows their death again out of both of them
Comment by allen | 01.30.2006 | 6:35 pm
whats the point of this story..? this old guy died cuz he ate candy and started hiding it in old dusty jars??
Comment by hah | 03.4.2006 | 1:27 am
HI ARE THIER ANY CUTE GUYS OUT THEIR!!!
Comment by NOMASHA | 05.4.2006 | 11:45 pm
Thats a freaky story. My mom is from Minot ND. What street would this have took place on?
Comment by Jennifer | 05.30.2006 | 9:19 pm
I live in Minot ND and there are no ghosts there. We went there on a school trip once and there were no ghosts.
Comment by Sunshine | 06.17.2006 | 3:46 pm
I went to this house, and I have got something to tell you. That candy is not good. I had a really bad stomach ache after eating a handful of it. Could it be the ghost?
-Puzzled in Pennsylvania
Comment by Timmy | 06.30.2006 | 5:18 pm
I’ve lived in North Dakota my whole life and I have never heard of this storie. What street would it be on then because I want to go see this for my self.
Comment by Lilu | 06.30.2006 | 10:50 pm
I’ve lived in North Dakota my whole life and I have never heard of this storie. What street would it be on then because I want to go see this for my self.
Comment by Lilu | 06.30.2006 | 10:50 pm
Hey people!!! I am with that Lilu girl…I have lived in North Dakota my whole life! and I am all for going there to see it with you!!! Write Back!!!
Mandy Jo
Comment by Mandy Jo | 07.11.2006 | 3:05 pm
OKee.. I LIVED in minot ALL My life, well.. The Air Force Base.. Anyways, that thing is as fake as fake. My dad NOW is in charge of killings and ****.. It is fake.
Comment by Girl from Minot | 07.26.2006 | 3:16 am
The most haunted town in ND is Noonan, ND. Did you know that they have a bar that was once the town morgue? Some of the patrons are pretty pale looking. Go see for yourself. Spooky. Also, they have the haunted mine hills (be very careful) and a small haunted dam south of the town.
Comment by Olive | 08.7.2006 | 2:37 am
hi is anyone there. olive r u there
Comment by nicolle G | 08.8.2006 | 3:36 pm
ello
Comment by angel | 08.8.2006 | 3:37 pm
WAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH
Comment by angel | 08.10.2006 | 7:37 am
I investigated this site on a couple of different occasions. Also, I was able to visit with the proprietor of the business. She told me that yes an old man drown in the river out back as he was senile and fell down the bank, but never ever have there been any ghostly sightings…no ghosts or ghostly activity. I opened the “locked closet” with her permission and there was no extreme difference in temperature. Also i staked out the parking lot and watched the river one evening to no avail.
Comment by jamie | 08.29.2006 | 5:33 pm
What the FXXXXX up Peeps?
Comment by POOPOO | 08.31.2006 | 5:04 pm
I had heard about this one once, and because of that, was skeptical to the veracity of the story. However, there is a ghost that haunts UND campus and another one that haunts the Altru Hostpital Staff elevator, both in Grand Forks. The one on UND campus lives in the tunnels under the dorms and in the skywalk. She has no legs, and wears a nightgown. Creepy stuff. The one in Altru just kind of moans…more of a spirit than a ghost.
Comment by Sam O. | 09.20.2006 | 2:54 pm
What is the point of this story u guys need more storys people
Comment by Courtney | 09.29.2006 | 10:11 am
Ok, Iam from Bismarck and I can tell you that there is nothig haunted anywhere in North Dakota, ok? I can tell you this because Iam psychic and I have never seen anything even near spooky! Bunch od Halloween B—–
Comment by Bismarck Girl | 10.24.2006 | 10:52 pm
Ok, Iam from Bismarck and I can tell you that there is nothig haunted anywhere in North Dakota, ok? I can tell you this because Iam psychic and I have never seen anything even near spooky! Bunch of Halloween B—–
Comment by Bismarck Girl | 10.24.2006 | 10:52 pm
a buddy of mine and i are going to check out the house next door story one of these nights. that place is my mother in law’s favorite craft store. as to the stories about noonan and the mine hills, there’s some creepy stuff going on around that place! i grew up very close to noonan and i always get a creepy feeling when i go to that town.
Comment by jenn | 10.25.2006 | 7:45 pm
If you don’t believe anything in ND is haunted, just take a trip up to Tagus,ND on Halloween night. Charles Manson said that if he ever gets out of prison he is going there as it’s supposed to be the epicenter of demonic activity. There have been ritualistic sacrifices of animals, a man was propped on the train tracks and murdered, sightings of god knows what in the cemetary. Me and some buddies put 10 clips of ammo into something in there and it never died, just kept on going. Even during the day, you get a very strange feeling just driving thru the place. There is a staircase somewhere either in the town or in a pasture nearby that is said to keep going down and down. Just check it out.
Comment by Ajacks | 10.28.2006 | 2:01 pm
my husband’s farm is right outside tagus…he’s been through the whole place, and there is no staircase. he claims he’s never seen anything there, but i have heard many of the stories of what people HAVE been seeing.
there is some history of tagus and a close friend of the son of sam killer living there, but that’s about all i’ve heard for freaky history.
Comment by jenn | 10.29.2006 | 10:28 am
Im from Minot and I believe the stuff about Home Sweet Home. My mother in law has been there and she said the upstairs is very creepy. As for Tagus, my friends and I took a trip there in the middle of the night. That was the scariest place I have ever been. There is an old church there and it has a light on inside but it was closed up and locked. We went into the cemetary as you just get the weirdest feelings in there. I just about s**t my pants!!!
Comment by Amber | 10.29.2006 | 9:00 pm
one night some friends and myself took a trip to tagus and while we were driving through we got pulled over by the local highway patrol. he asked us if we were driving through there because of the rumors of tagus being haunted. he then went on to tell us that it is not haunted and that there are people that live there and that theres no talking goats, satanic ****, etc..
Comment by jenifer | 10.30.2006 | 9:53 am
I’ve also lived in North Dakota all my life, investigate the paranormal and have never heard of this. Would be interested in checking it out though.
Comment by Mindy | 11.8.2006 | 9:17 pm
Sounds like this place could use some insulation
Comment by lazer | 11.20.2006 | 7:02 am
I lived in that house in Minot as a boy. Never seen anything. And that man that drowned in the river was my grandad. I live in Ca. now and my sister told me about a site that said gandads old house is one of the 10 most haunted houses in the states. Balony! you can believe anything you want but I do not believe that house is haunted. I spent a lot of my life in that house with grandma and grandpa. Lot of holidays and never seen anything.
Comment by j anderson | 11.22.2006 | 1:48 am
the church in tagus…not quite sure just how long ago you were there, but there was only one church in tagus. my hubby and his family WERE members of it. and no, paranormal activity didn’t cause them to leave the church, it was the fire that burned the place down a few years back.
Comment by jenn | 12.4.2006 | 7:27 pm
I’ve been there literally hundreds of times no ghosts but possibaly a witch. Now try San Haven near bellcourt, ND old mental asylum that have claimed lives.
Comment by rockman | 12.16.2006 | 1:04 am
you guys need to grow up ghosts do not excist so get over your selfs candis shaw age 15
Comment by candis | 12.18.2006 | 2:10 pm
Concerning Olives statement ,she full of **** ,I know the owner of the bar that was once a morgue ,yes its true ,but remember people dont die in morgues ,they come there dead so no spirits can live there ,research your stuff better Olive .And I live right beside the mine hills of Noonan and they are not haunted either .Olive must have a degree in filling people full of ****.
Comment by Charlie | 12.27.2006 | 2:44 pm
Thanks Olive ,We at the so called haunted bar in Noonan would love to see you come and say hi ,that is if you dare. I own the bar and it is not haunted.People do not die in morgues you moran ,but if this is what you have to do to make your own dreadful life more interesting please fell free to SLANDER me and my business some more ,I have a good Lawyer.
Comment by Tammy | 12.27.2006 | 2:50 pm
And yet another thank you to Olive,
I own this so called haunted bar with my wife ,it was never a morgue it was a funeral home ,people do not die in either a morgue or funeral home ,i think you will have to get your facts straight from now on if your intent is to SLANDER people and thier business. FYI we were both born white ,could be the reason we are pale.
Keith
Comment by Keith | 12.27.2006 | 4:22 pm
My best friend is from Belcourt, she has told me about alot of crazy stuff, didn’t really belive her till I went there. scary town, drive by the old asylum……I will never do that again. Most of the crazy stuff happens in peoples houses though, not in a cemetary or any of that stuff.
Comment by Katie | 12.31.2006 | 2:02 am
i live in belcourt and alot of demon’s follow drug and party anmial’s. it’s true thise place is full of demon’s. i know becouse,i grew up here and that’s the life i thought was the way to live. and some are raised diffrent, but i had the devil on my path for 22yrs and one of his demon’s told me. YOU SHOULD BE DEAD!! MY FAITH KEPT ME ALIVE AND OUR FATHER. THE PRAYER KEPT THEM AND THE DEVIL AWAY. I STOPPED THE DRUG’S AND THE DRINKING.BECOUSE ONCE YOU’VE BEN AND LIVED IN HELL.YOU BETTER GET TO KNOW THE GUY UP STAIRE’S BECOUSE THE DEMON’S ARE STANDING WRIGHT THERE .WAITING TO TAKE YOUR SOUL TO BURN FOR EVER AND EVER.
Comment by jolene | 01.13.2007 | 8:42 pm
That’s not the only place that is haunted in Minot, North Dakota. There is this little red house by a school that my parents lived in. In the basement you would hear constant footsteps, and when you went upstairs to check, no one was there. The door would slam on it’s own.
And the strangest place was the storage room, where the hair on your neck would stand up, something was wrong there.
Comment by Chocobo | 01.31.2007 | 11:27 am
hey what the hey is up sith you gohst story telling freaks. do u really beileve in gohts. i don’t. c u l8er. bye. michela cyrus age 23
Comment by michela cyrus | 02.22.2007 | 8:57 pm
First of all… To those of you who don’t believe in ghosts why are you reading a website about ghosts. I guess the people who don’t believe never will until something they can not explain happens to them.
Second… To the people who own the ”not haunted” bar… chill out. People are just relating what they have heard. I don’t find it as slander. It’s just a rumour. No need for all the big lawyer talk. Sheesh!
Comment by Kay | 02.23.2007 | 11:32 pm
OK OK PEOPLE i live in Minot N.D. THERE I GHOST HERE AND ITS SCARY
Comment by Sandy | 03.6.2007 | 5:53 pm
Hey Everyone! I am a 14 year old girl who lives in New Town, ND which is about, 60 miles away from Minot, ND and I don’t find this site scary! I have seen worst and have heard worst! If you hear or seen any of the stories, beleive me, Minot isn’t anything to New Town! Also, there is another place just as scary but most think it is worst! It is called the Village. It sounds funny but that’s what it’s called. There are many, many stories about the Village! You should get to hear more about it, it’s really interesting! well, I would like to tell you more but I’m running out of time. (beleive me I’m not lieing!)
Comment by DaNica lb | 03.14.2007 | 4:36 pm
I am the ghost that drowned…And after repeated drownings night after night i like to go online to see what you people say about me. You make me sick People night after night i drown and not one of you has the guts to try and save me. You just watch and record. If you were to drowning night after night i would at least jump into the damn river to save you. but noooo you jsut watch me just so you can say you saw me drown. Well this is to all you hunters out there… I’M COMING FOR YOU NOW! I WILL BE DOING THE WATCHING!
Comment by JUST CALL ME J | 03.22.2007 | 3:41 pm
Just a quick question….for all those people who are SO positive that ghosts don’t exist, i would like you people to explain the reasoning behind all of the weird stuff that occurs in peoples homes, in schools, and where they work. I bet if any of you were to actually experience one of these strange situations you might possibly think differently…just because you can’t see it and you don’t understand it, it doesn’t mean its not there!
Comment by Brandon | 03.26.2007 | 4:00 am
Hm. Ive lived in Minot all my life and NEVER heard of that. i’ll have to check it out sometime.
Comment by kk | 03.31.2007 | 6:09 pm
This is to the owners of the “haunted bar”,
Why are you mad about people thinking your bar is haunted? It’s free advertising for you!!! I had planned to take a drive to your bar just to see if it was true. But since you say it’s not, and you’d probably get angry at my being there just to find out for sure, I no longer have any desire to go. It’s too bad, I was looking forward to it too.
Comment by MJ | 04.1.2007 | 5:06 pm
Ive heard about some stories in Newtown and specifically the village. My sister was out with one of her friends North of the village in a field and she saw about twenty or thirty litlle shadow THINGS that were running around. She said it made her and her friend so terrified they didn’t want to move. After ahile they decided to start leaving,a good distance from where they were they could see those things climbing on the truck they had taken to get there. Someone my mom knew also saw one in her backyard through her kitchen window right by the house
Comment by doughboy | 04.1.2007 | 9:56 pm
Okay i think the only real haunt is the Mike Meyers House! [no longer exsits]but there are some wicked weird stuff the happened there with my friends and people i no! go there some times see if the car fallows u back to town!
Comment by Grand_forks | 06.23.2007 | 4:41 pm
I was just at Tagus North Dakota and drove by the few houses there. The house looked like no one was there and by the time we got to the cemetary we could see glows in the windows. Once we walked to the cemetary we heard some voices and what looked like strange movements comming from one of the grave stones. We then went back to the car and started it and headed back into town. When we started to go through the town again the glows went down from the houses. As we passed the church (what was the church just a brick thing now) there was faint images of people standing around in a circle. Not sure if it was people or not, it was pretty dark and pretty scary. We high tailed it out of there and won’t be going back.
Comment by Cincy | 06.24.2007 | 9:31 pm
Yeah, Tagus is very haunted. I drove through there with 3 of my friends one nite, and no matter how much I tried to slow my car down from going around that curve…..It kept speeding up and speeding up. I swear to the Lord that is a very very haunted place.
When I finally got the car stopped right outside of Tagus, my friend Morgan swears that he saw the face of the devil coming at his window.
If you are into that sort of thing….scarings and such….Check it out!!!
Comment by Amanda | 07.23.2007 | 9:18 pm
I lived in Minot ND for 6 years and have been to Home Sweet Home numerous of times. It did have a creepy feeling in that room. After I heard about the drowning ghost, I would be out at 4-5 in the morning but I was too scared to look.
As for the town or Tagus or Noonan, I had a friend who went thru Tagus and said that once they got over the rail road tracks, their car died andcouldn’t get it started. She said that every building was dark like no one lived there. It was believe to be a Satanic Cults hide out.
Comment by Joyful | 08.30.2007 | 11:26 am
For i am the ghost of tagus and those that oppose me will no that my glory will live throughout thanks, sincerely yours , Ghost of Tagus
P.S.save your gas and just ask me questions here…
Comment by Ghost of Tagus | 09.13.2007 | 6:15 pm
I spent most of my years growing up in Minot, ND. I am currently pursuing my certification in Parapsychology in sunny California. I know for a fact that there are haunted locations in Minot. I am not sure about Home Sweet Home, but I have experienced things at the House Next Door, Charles and the little antique store on main street under the hair school. Paranormal activity is out there whether you believe or not.
Comment by lilshe | 09.19.2007 | 5:56 pm
Hi there I have lived in Minot all my life. There is a lot of unexplainable things in this town. Now for Home Sweet Home I have been there several times. It is an errie place. When i was there the only candy was in a room right on the main floor. The attic had that door blocked off i looked through the crack and it was not a good feeling i had and there is rafters where a short person could have hung them self. As for Minot there is a lot of history with “satanic” people. The River of life assembely of God church was once a Masonic temple. A friend Cory Withers told me storys how when the masons moved out there was a lot of caskets and so forth, he claimed it was haunted but with the presence of a church there i highly doubt it. Now Then what about son of Sam? There was a murder on Highway 83 a few miles north of minot in the 1970’s it looked as a tank or some other large machine had ran a car over, rumor had it it was sos. Also what about the underground tunnels that are hidden under the town? Ive also heard of an air shaft under town and county mall that has tunnels that satanic people have rituials in. In oak park during the 70’s there was also alot of satanic rituals practiced. I have seen a tape of a “ghost” My friends parents redid there attic they claimed there was a ghost hanging from the rafters. Ive seen the tape talked to the family and even slept in that room. Nothing that out of the ordenary unless you are scared to begin with. So yes ive been to Tagus as well. With a Ojuia Board, there was a man that approaced us in a pickup told us to get lost and when he drove away the tires on the pickup were off the ground and he vanised. It seemed as it took forever to get out of there like a time warp so to speak. Now them i was also told there is an alter of human sacrafice there but i never saw it. So anyone knowing anything please e-mail me. opareo@yahoo.com
Comment by Doug | 10.13.2007 | 11:08 pm
I used to live in North Dakota many years ago and while I cannot say I have ever been to “Home Sweet Home” in Minot, I can attest to some odd experiences I had at the Burtness Theater at UND in Grand Forks. I was supposed to open the theater for a show and was given a set of keys and told to unlock the building around 7 or 8 pm. Upon entering the building, I had the most horrible feeling and felt as though I would be in mortal danger if I stayed inside. I quickly exited the theater and later told others of my experience. They told me the place was haunted and some had even witnessed paranormal activity there. I find it amusing that some don’t believe in these kinds of things. Obviously they have never experienced the unexplainable. At any rate, I would never enter that building alone again.
Comment by Former N.Dakotan | 10.16.2007 | 2:48 pm
I live within walking distance from Home Sweet Home here in Minot, ND. I’ve been in there numerous times and can say Yes; there is an eerie feeling on the upper level of the house. With the way that house was built, my thoughts were the person who designed and built it had to have been disturbed in some sort of emotional possibly mental way. There are many stairs in that house. And I’m not talking just a normal staircase with a lot of stairs; I’m talking stairs that go in all different directions from one room to the next. I found it to be uniquely fascinating but very unethical floor plan for a family to live in before it became an antique and craft store. It’s very beautiful to look at on the outside. There is a staircase leading to a round room on the third level of the house. I’d say it was just big enough for a baby room at one time but other than that not much use for the room. My mother use to sell her wood works there and she too felt strange every time she went into this house to check up on her inventory. I don’t know much about the history of the house, but I do know a rich railroad engineer built it back in 1899. But if you’re ever in town, it is a neat house to see.
Comment by Jenn | 10.17.2007 | 12:40 pm
Just a question to all the people who know about the mike meyers house. Where is it? Iv heard its redcoulously scary and that i should go there one of these weekends..and something about a car that follows you? What? let me know! And yes. Iv been to some “haunted places” never found anything but stuff that had happend in my old house, thats what makes me believe in the paranormal.
Comment by Blair-GF | 10.18.2007 | 5:18 pm
i’ve experienced paranormal activities in my house but i still live here because i only know about them. not my parents or siblings. but 1 time the lights turned off when it was on. and another time i heard knocking noises on my closet door and it scared me.
Comment by Jarvis | 10.20.2007 | 3:59 pm
I lived in Minot, ND for 17 years before moving to a little town west of Minot and my mom and I love to go to Home Sweet Home and the attic isn’t locked. I recently had a baby and I can tell you my mom and I went to Home Sweet Home and checked out all the baby stuff in the attic. I love that place and I have never EVER heard of anything like that. Now as for Tagus, ND….I’ll let you know that is completely true! My senior year of High School 4 friends and I traveled to Tagus because we had heard all the hype about how it was haunted and how you hear dogs barking when you go inside the church and that when you open the door to go upstairs you hear a train but don’t see one. Well we went in the church and it was creepy feeling just being in there but we never did hear any dogs but when we did and I’m not lying because s*** like this freaks me out, we did hear a train go by and the guards were down and flashing and we didn’t see a train anywhere. It was probably the creepiest thing I have ever expeirenced and we quickly got together and went out the basement door and I personally shut the lights off and when we were driving away the switched on!! I’m not lying and I have never believed in that stuff but I was totally freaked out after that and I still get goosebumps thinking about it. 1 week after we had went there the church had burned down. I believe the stories about Tagus, ND.
Comment by noname | 10.22.2007 | 5:25 pm
to the bar owners; there is NO BAD PUBLICITY. the bullock hotel-bar-casino in deadwood s.d. gets about half of it’s business because of haunted stories about it; MORE FLIES WITH HONEY THAN VINEGAR?? try and think good thoughts!!
Comment by aloof | 10.29.2007 | 12:18 pm
I’ve been in North Dakota for 7 years, and have been curious about the paranormal phenomenon circling the state. A few of us are planning to go to Tagus tomorrow, and if something happens while I’m there I’ll be sure to post it on here.
Comment by Curious | 10.30.2007 | 2:13 pm
hay my house is haunted every time at night I here banging at night
4 people in the house…..
Comment by sundance thomas | 10.30.2007 | 4:03 pm
I used to live on Minot AFB and went to church at First Baptist in Minot for several years (89-93). I can truly say those were some of the coolest years of my life. Anyway, I don’t believe there are ghosts. I think they are demons who are mimicking the people they see in hell; trying to torment us because they hate us and have no hope. Jesus has ultimate power and if you want to have ultimate power over these supernatural terrorists, freedom from the fear, guilt, and shame that they seem to revel in and feed off of, then I encourage you to read about him in the Gospels.
Comment by sibert | 11.14.2007 | 4:21 pm
Well, Listen to this…I’ve been born and raised in Minot, ND and I have been in Home Sweet Home before, it did seem a little spooky, even before I knew what had happened…narrow, winding staircases and stuff..but, nothing too bad..there is a temp change when you go upstairs…However, there is a house on Central Ave, that I lived in as a teenager, a boy (I wont say his name)also a teenager used to live there, was brutally stabbed to death, shortly after that happened out basement door would open and close all the time, with many witnesses, after awhile, we were like “Come on in and Sit down”.
Comment by RedBone | 12.21.2007 | 4:53 pm
Okay, this is a honest true story guys….In Minot there is a house (apartment building) on top of a hill, off of Burdick…with vines running all over it…the apt is still there…when I was really young (Kindergarden)…my mom, brothers’ and me discovered in the basement (where we did laundry) some old books(mom said it was “witch docter” stuff, and some other things I cant really remember…but what I do remember is waking up screaming day after day because of a heavy pressure of me that wouldn’t let me move or anything…a weight a cant describe…and when it finally lifted off of me I’d be screaming day after day…has anyone ever felt that before???
Comment by RedBone | 12.21.2007 | 5:01 pm
I don’t know if ghosts really exists or not. but vry
much interested in ghost stories. i don’t have any
personal experiance as well..hmmm..but ofcourse heard lotz of stories.
Comment by Heidi | 12.28.2007 | 4:53 pm
I live in Minot and would welcome the opportunity to see and experience some of the wierd things that people describe happening to them. I have been to Tagus (since the church burned) and stopped at the cemetary. nothing happened. my truck slowed down at the corner, didnt stop after the tracks, hell i even turned around and went back through. Drove up the hill going to the cemetary and looked around in the cemetary, once again nothing happened. But at any rate whether anything happens or not i still love seeing old towns. any yall around here want a hunting partner i am always looking for something like that to happen to me so i would not be such a skeptic.
Comment by Clay | 03.25.2008 | 9:50 pm