Woman finds carpet buried in her garden and everyone’s convinced it’s a dead body

A woman digging in her yard found a rug mysteriously buried in the ground – but that was just the first in a string of weird events that have gone viral on TikTok.

Katie Santry, 34, and her boyfriend were shoveling in their lawn in Columbus, Ohio, to construct a fence when they discovered the rug. While intrigued, the couple put it in the back of their minds.

But several days later, Santry found that her computer screen was broken and that her desk had been messed with. Her boyfriend, his two children and her son said they had not been in the sunroom at all and that the doors were shut.

Santry then took to TikTok for ideas on who was behind the crime.

‘Is there a dead body in that rug? Or is it the ghost of the rug’s past?’ she said in her clip. ‘What on earth happened? Is there a ghost breaking my stuff?’

Santry also shared that her next-door neighbor died at home the same day that she bought her home in October of last year.

‘So it was just a series of weird, coincidental events that, with a creative mind, could be construed as ghostly,’ she said.

Santry video recorded her family’s efforts to unearth the rug, but the dry dirt made it impossible with their regular shovels and tools.

‘We were just kind of messing with it and realizing this is just the tip of the iceberg,’ she said. ‘The rug looks like old-school shag carpet, and we didn’t even know which direction to dig. Plus, we had trees and bushes in the way.’

As Santry continued documenting the developments, her content gained millions of views. One of her posts in which she held part of a bloodgood tree over the rug underground garnered more than three million views, her highest figure yet.

‘I pulled it out and said, “This is called a bloodgood tree. If I were a murderer with a sense of humor, I’d plant a bloodgood tree on top of a dead body and be like, ha!”‘ she said.

Santry said her husband thought she was crazy when she called cops for help in digging out the rug. Officers quickly showed up, but they initially determined it was not worth the resources it would take.

After reading many of the theories her followers posed, Santry explained the rough breakdown in opinions.

‘The Internet is about 50/50 on whether it’s a dead body or an animal, and maybe 10% think this was just a junkyard,’ she said.

‘However, we’ve dug a lot of posts and fenced in most of our yard at this point, and I can say we haven’t come across any other rugs. So, the Internet thinks it’s either a junkyard, a dead body, or a dead dog.’

Likely in part due to the viral nature of Santry’s situation, police returned to her home and she livestreamed some of the investigation showing yellow crime tape cordoning off her yard.

Santry said that both of her dogs at one point sat over the hole in the ground and that she asked one of the officers, ‘When they sit that means something though, right?’

‘Usually,’ the officer apparently replied.

On Friday morning, cops spent hours digging and removed multiple small rug parts and tested them for human and animal remains, WBNS reported. They came back negative, and authorities said no further testing was planned.

‘They said that there’s still a chance that this rug just could have blood on it,’ Santry said. ‘It doesn’t necessarily mean that there is a body in my backyard.’

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