What started out as a woman thinking her house was haunted has now sparked a police investigation.
Katie Santry from Columbus, Ohio, took to TikTok earlier this week when she noticed her home office, including her laptop screen, was wrecked. Later, while attempting to put up a fence in her backyard, she and her boyfriend Brandon found a rolled-up carpet buried in the ground. Now, her videos have received millions of views on TikTok, as both Santry and the internet try to decipher her mysterious findings.
“Is there a dead body in that rug? Or is it the ghost of the rug’s past?” she questioned in one of her videos, adding: “My next-door neighbor also died in her house the day we bought this house last October.”
“That house started getting boarded up the same day this happened. So it was just a series of weird, coincidental events that, with a creative mind, could be construed as ghostly.”
Santry had enlisted help to dig up the rug in her backyard, but she later realized it was too long and received comments from TikTokers encouraging her to call law enforcement.
When the Columbus Police Department arrived at her home, they looked at the area and decided it was worth calling in an excavator to dig up the rug. However, after notifying the chief of police, it was decided that the officers could not deploy resources. It would be up to Santry to dig up the carpet herself and call them back if anything was found…
In case anyone comes here to see if there’s an update, as of a couple hours ago the homeowner had 2 cadaver dogs come by the house to sniff the rug, they both hit on it and identified it as a body. Crime scene came out and excavated it and it did turn out to just be a rug that someone rolled up and planted under a tree. That’s pretty much where the story ends for now but having two cadaver dogs hit on the rug is kinda suspicious. Hopefully there’ll be more info in the future.
Maybe the rug itself was evidence that was buried, separately from a body. Weird, but having 2 dogs hit warrants some scrutiny for sure.
Nah, they just saw that their handler wanted it to result in something.
Remember, sniffer dogs are not reliable.
Drug dogs, cadaver sniffers, explosive search dogs, they are all completely unreliable.
They do it to make their handler happy, and are no more reliable than a coin toss.
Word of advice: the cops are on your side until they’re not.
No. Cops are NEVER on your side.
My neighbor has multiple rooms worth of carpet buried in her yard. Seems last owner though it would make a cheap weed barrier when they replaced thier carpet. It’s in ALL her flower beds and several other spots in the yard.
That is so weird that the police didn’t find a buried carpet unusual enough to warrant digging up.
Its just a beanie baby
