The United Bohemian Society

The name of this society is actually derived from Bohemia in Czechoslovakia, not the lifestyle. The "United" element indicates that the society at was made open to Moravians in 1878, a good twenty-five years after the Bohemian Society was founded in 1853. The society was initially a cultural association, but it transformed during the 1880s and 1890s into a space and meeting hall that used to be available to the general public as well as a charitable association that benefited all of Arkham. The main hall can be rented for events on Wednesdays through Saturdays.

The former chairman of the United Bohemian Society was Mr. Zygmunt Prka, a respected and engaged citizen and businessman in the import and export business. Prka was also the secretary of the Benevolent Society of Our Lady of Alexandria, a spiritual gentlemen's club which was located on the top floor of the building that houses the United Bohemian Society. Its former members are now facing serious charges for arson and manslaughter.

The United Bohemian Society is located in Alexandria house on 512 South Sentinel Street, at the intersection of East High Street.

A series of weird events took place in Alexandria House between May 25 and 26. On the afternoon of May 25, Mr. Joe Morgan, the driver and butler of Mr. Zygmunt Prka, was shot and killed by unknown perpetrators just outside the building. The Arkham police department was summoned, the inhabitants of the building were questioned, and a police officer was posted to guard the building and the crime scene. The detectives remarked that Mr. Prka seemed to have gathered members of the Benevolent Society of Our Lady of Alexandria on the top floor of the building, and that the members seemed disturbingly disheveled, and that the place was remarkably cold and harboring a vile stench that was difficult to categorize, yet wholly repulsive. 

Next day, May 26, the Arkham fire department was called after an explosion was heard and heavy smoke was seen coming out of Alexandria House. The firemen were horrified to find officer James Branagan nailed to the front porch, and a scene of mayhem and carnage inside the building. There had been some form of mass homicide in what seemed to be ritualistic and unwholesome circumstances. The Arkham Police Department refused to discuss any of the details, save that Mr. Prka was found dead, having suffered gruesome mutilation, and that several bodies were still to be identified. Rumors have claimed that a few well-known Arkhamites were found among the dead, but this has yet to be confirmed.   

The main hall of the United Bohemian Society

The late Mr. Zygmunt Prka

Alexandria House brfore the mayhem of May 26, 1923.