A TIKTOKER who claimed her house was haunted after a series of mysterious happenings has sparked a homicide investigation after making a bizarre discovery.
Katie Santry, who posts on TikTok under the handle @katiesantry, revealed that the shocking tale began when her and her husband planned on building a new fence in their yard.
About two and a half feet down, they found a rolled-up rug buried in the ground.
She called the police to her house in Columbus, Ohio, following the chilling find, and after an initial investigation, homicide officers and two cadaver dogs were scrambled.
When the dogs began sniffing around, Katie said they immediately sat on the area with the rug.
Although this could be a sign of possible human remains, Katie pointed out in a video that it could also be from something as small as blood droplets from a bloody nose.
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On Thursday, October 3, Katie shared a video with her 1.6 million followers showing her house cordoned off by police.
“There’s a tent set up with nine police officers, CSI in the backyard,” she told followers in the video. “They’ve blocked how far I’m allowed to even go.”
After making the discovery in her yard, Katie had put out a series of light-hearted videos joking that she thought her house might be haunted.
She said that her computer was broken, the screen had been shattered, and her desk had been thrown around, and she mentioned wanting a medium to come and look at the property.
“My laptop gets shattered in the middle of the night,” she said. “The Apple guy says it looked like it was elbowed or punched.
“The door was closed, and the laptop was in the room closest to the hole,” she added.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God. What the hell happened?'”
Initially, Katie thought that the rug would turn out to be nothing more than a pet buried by a previous owner.
In a previous video, she described getting in touch with the daughter of the home’s previous owner, who had been the only people to live in the house before her.
But they told her it wasn’t any of their pets, as all of their dogs who had passed away had been cremated.
The previous owners of the home are in their 90s and live in assisted living.
In a statement, Columbus Police Department said that the investigation is ongoing, and there are no conclusive findings at this time.
“CPD held the scene overnight and the officers resumed the investigation this morning,” the statement read.
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TIKTOKER Katie Santry had a bizarre experience after uncovering a rug buried in her back yard
- 2023: Katie Santry moves into her house in Columbus, Ohio.
- Monday, 30 Sept: Katie and her husband are digging up their back yard to build a fence when they uncover a buried rug.
- Tuesday, Oct 1: Strange things start happening in the house – computer screen is smashed and the desk is ‘thrown around.’
- Tuesday, Oct 1: Katie calls the cops who at first find nothing, but then call for homicide crews.
- Wednesday, Oct 2: Katie reaches out to the daughter of the house’s former owners. She finds that they had no pets.
- Thursday, Oct 3: Homicide crews come with cadaver dogs. The dogs sit down at the site where the rug was found, which can be an indication of human remains.
- Thursday, Oct 3 (evening): Katie’s house is sealed off by cops as the investigation continues into the night.
- Friday, Oct 4: Excavation crews arrive, it is revealed that there are no human remains in the ground, but the exact story remains unsolved.
In her most recent video shared on Friday afternoon, Katie gave breathless fans an update on what had happened.
“You guys, they have recovered the hole, and this has been the most absurd, insane experience of my life.
“What did they find? No, they didn’t find a body, they found a mother effing rug with some rubber.
“The question remains why did the dogs hit?” she added.
And she said she also wanted to know “Who broke my laptop.”
Many of her followers revealed how invested they had become in the case.
“I don’t know what to do with my life now!” one said.
“Why am I bothered that there wasn’t a body,” said another.
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While a third said, “Why would someone bury a rug is the new question.”
Some even speculated that the body was buried further underneath the rug.
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