THE STORY
Reported Haunting
West Hills occupies the former Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children, which housed thousands of children between 1886 and 1945. Visitors have reported apparitions, unexplained footsteps, voices, and strange activity in the surviving buildings and near the children's cemetery.
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