The Evil at Larchwood House: Based on True Events in West Park Ohio

The house on Larchwood Avenue today, is derelict in contrast to the better maintained homes in the West Park neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. The house looks ominous, sinister, and sorrowful, to any passer-by. But to these who have dwelled inside its evil walls, the house stands as a portentous reminder that something much darker dwells among the living.

I became aware of the Larchwood house by pure experience. I lived in the house as a child. As an adult, I rented the house from the inherited owner, my close friend. The stories herein are true. Much of the history is derived from the accounts of the family that owned the house for many generations. Other aspects regarding the first owners, came to me in dreams as a child and as a teenager; pieced together with established history.

The house itself is not a dwelling that I would call haunted so much as infected. There is an ominous tension in the atmosphere. One can feel it simply walking in the door. The infection seems benign at first. Little things go missing, odd and unexplainable things happen. So much so, that you begin to question your own reason and judgment. The infection slowly builds toward the cataclysmic destruction of self, stability, and even sanity.