Ghosts of North Dakota: A Ghost Town Slideshow
If you’re new to Ghosts of North Dakota, welcome! Please check out the slideshow for a little more information on what we’re about, and make sure to click the little ‘gear’ button on the video and select “HD” to watch the video and see the photos at maximum quality.
Argusville: School’s Out
We paid a brief visit to Argusville High School today and found things have changed quite a bit since our last visit in 2011. The school was in a terrible state of disrepair and had been thoroughly vandalized when we last saw it, but it has since been secured and made safe. The rusting twin [...]
Straubville, North Dakota: A True Ghost Town
We visited Straubville, North Dakota on a cloudy day in 2005 and found it totally abandoned. Unfortunately, we arrived a few years too late to capture the major remaining buildings when they were still standing. We’ve been told that things have deteriorated since our last visit, so we’re hoping to go back to Straubville some [...]
Abandoned Structures: The Stages of Ruin
In our ten years of exploring North Dakota’s ghost towns and abandoned places, we’ve seen structures in all stages of condition. Many places meet an unnatural end due to fire, flood, and the bulldozer. If a building can survive without suffering an unfortunate fate however, it goes through a somewhat predictable process. We’ve learned a [...]
Video: Memorial Weekend Trip 2013
After getting suggestions from several people that we start doing videos again, we decided to ease back into it and we did just a little bit of video on our trip over Memorial Weekend. We stopped doing videos some years ago, mainly because there are only two of us, and when we go on a [...]
Sanger: No Longer a Ghost Town
Nine years after our first visit to Sanger, North Dakota, we returned to see how things had changed. Imagine our surprise when we discovered Sanger is no longer a true ghost town. There had been no population when we visited in 2004, but today, Sanger is inhabited by two men, Ron and Dan, who moved [...]
Tuttle Country School
This is a lonesome country school on County Road 3, about eight miles southeast of Tuttle in Kidder County. Unfortunately, it was boarded up tight and there was very little to see. Photos by Troy Larson and Terry Hinnenkamp, copyright Sonic Tremor Media LLC
Sterling School No. 2
We’ve seen this school referenced online as Wing School #3, however the sign above the door appears to read Sterling No. 2. The school is located closer to Wing than it is Sterling, so we wonder whether this school originally stood somewhere else and was moved to this spot, about 9 miles north of Wing. [...]
Arena: Nine Years Later
We first visited Arena in May of 2004. Nine years later, we returned to this rolling spot on the prairie in Burleigh County and found things much the same, if somewhat weathered. St. John’s Lutheran church still stands, though the white paint has weathered considerably over the last nine years. The cinderblock foundation on the [...]
Clear Lake School
This is one of two schools in Clear Lake Township which we’ve seen referenced as simply “Clear Lake School.” This one sits near the junction of 26th Avenue SE and County Road 36, about two miles east of Tuttle in Kidder County. The other is several miles east. If you know the official name of [...]
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