by Monica Showalter
The fall of Los Angeles is starting to read like horror fiction come to life.
Cue 'Twilight Zone' music: A mild-mannered everyman living his best life in a ranch house with a shimmering lawn in the Larchmont neighborhood of Los Angeles discovers bums, doing and dealing drugs, from the abandoned house next to his.
Knowing the risks, he calls city officials to ask for their help in stopping them.
But instead of help, they laugh at him, and then getting surreal, tell him they don't know who the owner of the property is.
He can do nothing.
The bums fester. It doesn't take long for the bums to do what they do in Los Angeles, which is start open fires. On one Sunday in March 2026, they set the abandoned building they were occupying on fire. The fire burned the home down -- and the home next to it on one side, and the home next to it on the other side, which belonged to the man. He was out that morning and lost everything, including his beloved dogs.
But the nightmare didn't end with that. The bums returned. They did their drugs on the abandoned property again. And within four months, they expanded into the rubble of the man's burned home -- and took over the ruins they left him with. When the man tried to move them away so he could rebuild, they threatened to kill him. It was 'their' house now. Los Angeles laws being what they are, he couldn't get rid of them.
Again, he could do nothing.
Yes, it sounds like nightmare suspense fiction. But it really happened and not a long time ago.
According to Fox News:
WATCH: His home was destroyed by a fire believed to have started at a nearby squatters’ property.
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) July 14, 2026
Now. 4 months later, he says squatters are back, taking over the charred remains, leaving behind trash and graffiti, and threatening him at his own burned-out home. pic.twitter.com/lXZIG78kpH
According to local-news NBC 4 in a story dated July 14:
A Larchmont family who lost their home to a fire that began at a vacant property next door earlier this year says they’re now dealing with squatters who have taken over the site of where their house once stood.
The Galicia family’s house was destroyed in a fire that claimed the lives of their two dogs this past spring. The blaze began at a vacant house next door and spread to the family home, ripping through it on March 8. Pastor Juan Galicia said he was delivering a sermon on hope at his South LA church when the fire broke out.
“I could still picture my room how it is. That's where I sit, where I'm on my computer,” the pastor’s son, William, said as he stood over the charred remains of his home. “If I needed clothes, I'd go there. I sleep in my bed right here.”
As the family continues to navigate the loss, another headache arises in the form of trespassers. They say squatters have taken over the property and littered it with drug paraphernalia, graffiti and condoms. The family said the squatters have also gutted the property of its copper wiring.
“They were here the last time I went," William Galicia said. "It was bothersome. They made my skin boil.”
The family added that they’ve repeatedly sought help from the city but have not been shown any support.
This can only be described as the walking dead taking over, expanding their reach, growing bigger and more powerful the more destruction they reap. They thrive on destruction, they grow with destruction, and now a blameless homeowner has lost everything as he watches the nightmare unfold.
It can't be real. And yet, it is: a communist system that colludes with the homeless industrial complex for power -- and it doesn't take long for an innocent man to lose his home.
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