Content Warning: This section contains graphic depictions of violence and presents mental health conditions through a stereotyped and exaggerated lens. In addition, the source text uses outdated and offensive terms for mental health conditions, replicated in this guide only in direct quotes.

A map of Old House shows various pathways to different places, including a psychiatric hospital and a different point in time. The map is extremely disorganized and scattered, implying that the pathways have no set position.

Eve Palmer stares out the window of the home that she and her girlfriend, Charlie, recently moved into at 3709 Heritage Lane, in a Pacific Northwest forest. At her door is a family of five (a man, a woman, and three kids). They look ready for church, and Eve wonders why they’re at her house on a Friday night. She opens the door, and the man, introducing himself as Thomas Faust and his wife as Paige, explains that he grew up in the house and wants to show it to his family. He claims they’re just passing through. Eve notices that the woman wears a cross and has striking blue eyes and that the father has dirt on his jacket.