Saint Anne's Guest Home — Grand Forks' poltergeist-plagued care facility

Saint Anne's Guest Home, a Catholic health care facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota, has a reputation for poltergeist-like activity that has been reported by staff, residents, and visitors over many years. The facility, which provides care for the elderly, has been the site of unexplained phenomena including call lights activating in unoccupied rooms, wheelchairs rolling down hallways on their own, and objects being found in locations far from where they were left. Staff working the night shift have described hearing footsteps in empty corridors, the sound of conversations in rooms where patients are sleeping, and doors that open and close without explanation. Some employees have reported seeing a figure in a nun's habit in the corridors at night — potentially the spirit of one of the Catholic sisters who operated the facility in its earlier decades. Residents have described feeling a comforting presence at their bedside during the night, as though someone is watching over them. The phenomenon is generally described as benevolent rather than frightening, consistent with the facility's mission of care. The combination of the building's function as a place where many people have spent their final days and its Catholic institutional history gives the reported activity a distinctive character.