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What started as an ordinary fence installation turned into a search for a body buried in a backyard in Columbus, Ohio.

Katie Santry went viral on TikTok after she found a carpet buried in her backyard while digging for a new fence. The discovery sparked a number of TikTok theories and a police investigation.

In a now 29-video playlist on the social media platform, Santry takes viewers from the moment she explains that she found a carpet buried in her backyard during the police search.

What's the deal with a rug found in someone's backyard?

“I think my house is haunted!!!” Santry captioned the first video, which was originally posted September 29th. As of Friday afternoon, it had been viewed 5.4 million times.

“I think my house is haunted and I'm literally shaking,” she said in the first TikTok. She then describes how her computer screen broke and her desk supplies slipped around.

She asked her online audience if they believed the possible haunting was related to a rug she found buried in the backyard.

This question apparently occupied a corner of TikTok and thousands commented on the first video. The commotion sparked several days of investigations by Santry and eventually by local police.

Santry publicly debated what to do with the carpet while the Internet watched and encouraged her to act. At first, Santry said she called the police and they concluded nothing could be done about the buried carpet. She tells TODAY.com that she then decided to take matters into her own hands – enlisting the help of her friends and “a box of High Noon” to dig it out.

“I decided to have a digging party with my friends. We wanted to get a case of High Noon and just do it for fun,” she says. “And basically five minutes after I posted that we were done with it and just digging it up…Homicide called me and they said they wanted to send the dogs.”

Once on scene, police used K-9s to sniff the carpet and alert both dogs, Santry says. The officials then sent out a whole team to dig up the carpet – at one point even using an excavator.

“I couldn't have done it myself,” she laughs to TODAY.com. “That would never have happened. They were waist deep in this hole, several men!”

However, despite their efforts, the police found nothing except the carpet itself.

What did the police say about the investigation?

In a statement obtained by TODAY.com, Columbus police confirmed that they examined Santry's yard “for pieces of carpet found beneath the surface of the homeowner's backyard.”

CPD confirmed that investigators dug up several small pieces of carpet in Santry's yard.

“All pieces tested negative for human or animal remains and at this time there are no plans for further testing,” the statement concludes, noting that the case was closed at 12:30 p.m. on October 4th.

In a TikTok livestream after the search was completed, Santry said police took the carpet as evidence and filled the hole before leaving the scene.

“It ended up completely destroying my entire fire pit – I had a nice gravel fire pit that was no longer there,” she said, noting that it's now just flat, dirt-covered land. “(But) I’ll take that over a corpse any day of the week.”

In a video post announcing what the police had – well, didn't have – found Santry said the whole experience was wild.

“These were the most absurd and crazy experiences of my life,” she posted in a graduation video on October 4th. “They didn't find a body – they found a mother wiping the carpet with some rubber.”

Santry tells TODAY.com that while the carpet mystery may be solved, she's still a little worried that the house might be haunted.

“I think we might consider doing something different to maybe find a solution to this,” she says, adding that she's thinking about talking to a psychic.


On By John Fenwick

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