- Katie Santry and her boyfriend came across a mat buried deep in the ground while digging up the lawn to build a fence
- She posted about it on TikTok, asking her followers, “What on earth happened?”
- In one video, which has now amassed 3 million views, she is shown holding a plaque from the blood-spilling tree above where the carpet was buried, adding extra creepiness to the situation
Katie Santry has taken the internet by storm with what she believes is a mystery waiting to be solved.
It all started when the Columbus, Ohio native and her boyfriend, Brandon, started digging up their lawn to build a fence. While shoveling, they came across something unusual: a carpet buried deep in the ground. It was strange to them, but they didn’t think much of it at the time.
A few days later, Santry, who works from home at a tanning salon, came downstairs to find a shocking sight: her computer screen was smashed and her desk in disarray. Confused, she asked herself, “What the hell happened?” and started accusing everyone in the house – her boyfriend, his two children and her own son – of tampering with her belongings. However, her family swore they were nowhere near the sunbed, insisting the door was closed.
Confused, Santry speculated aloud, “Is there a dead body in that saga? Or is it the ghost of the saga past?” This bizarre situation inspired her first TikTok, in which she asked followers: “What on earth happened? Is there a ghost breaking my stuff?”
“My first neighbor also died in her house the day we bought this house last October,” he adds. “That house started being boarded up the same day this happened. So it was just a series of strange, random events that, with a creative mind, could be interpreted as spooky.”
Katie Santry posts about finding a carpet buried in the lawn.
From there, Santry tells PEOPLE exclusively that the family began digging up the rug, and she began filming and sharing the process online. However, as they continued their investigation, they quickly realized that it wasn’t going to be easy: the ground was as hard as rock due to the lack of rain.
“We’re just average people with normal shovels and we couldn’t get much further than we did,” says Santry, 34. “We just messed around with it a little bit and realized this was just the tip of the iceberg. The carpet looks like an antique carpet, and we didn’t even know which direction to dig in. Besides, we had trees and bushes in the way.”
Feeling frustrated, Santry took to TikTok declaring, “I’m giving up. I can’t dig anymore.” At that moment, she had just reached 10,000 followers and was thrilled. Then, just when she thought it was over, “all hell broke loose on TikTok” as her videos went viral, garnering millions of views.
In one video, which has now amassed 3 million views, she is shown holding a plaque from a “treasured” tree located above where the carpet was buried.
“I pulled it out and said, ‘This is called a blood tree. If I were a killer with a sense of humor, I’d plant a blood tree on top of a dead body and be like, ha!’ ” she laughs. “I think that’s actually the video that went viral the most.”
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Eventually, Santry admits that her children lost interest in digging and they all decided to give up. However, as she sat in the sunroom, a thought struck her: “What if there really is a body? How could you not help that person find peace? How can you not help the family?” This prompted her to finally call the police, two days after her first video went viral.
“Brandon was confused,” Santry tells PEOPLE. “He thought I was clinically insane. He said, ‘What are you going to tell them?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. If only there was a mat.’ ” So that’s exactly what she did. She called and said, “Hey, this might be the dumbest call you’ve gotten today, but there’s a rug in the ground.” ”
It is interesting that two policemen arrived within 15 minutes. While the officers admitted the situation was super weird, they informed Santry that it would take significantly more time and effort than they were willing to invest to dig anything up. So Santry decided to do a “virtual dig” before any physical digging.
She called the listing agent and spoke to the daughter of the original home owners. The house was built in 1967, and before that only one family lived in it. The daughter mentioned that she would do more research before doing any physical digging. She had no idea why the rug was buried; and although they had dogs, no one ever dug at the site and they were all cremated after they died.
While they were talking, the daughter was on her way to the nursing home to talk to her 90- and 95-year-old parents and offered to see if they had any knowledge about the carpet. There, TikTok currently hangs in limbo — waiting for the daughter to relay the information to Santry.
“I really don’t think there’s a dead body down there,” Santry says. “The curiosity of why that carpet is there definitely haunts me. But my biggest concern is my computer because at the end of the day it broke for no apparent reason. That leaves me with the most questions. I actually have a psychic who has reached out to me and wants to read.”
“Kids find it comical,” Santry continues. “Brandon doesn’t believe in ghosts, but my three-year-old son sometimes tells me he sees skeletons in his closet. I’ve never thought about it since he’s three, but now it’s ringing alarm bells and raising red flags in my mind.”
Santry explains that she’s ready to give up even if they don’t find out what’s wrong with the carpet.
She says, “If I dig in one direction, I come across a stone fire pit area, which would destroy everything. If I dig in the other direction, just two feet above, there’s a bush taller than me—like a 10-foot bush.”
“I’ve already destroyed one tree, which made some farmers on TikTok very upset because, apparently, bloodshed trees are very expensive,” she adds. “I don’t want to kill another bush, so I’m honestly torn. If I put a post in there and then something else weird happens, now there’s cement over it and I’m kind of stuck trying to figure it out again. Well, I mean, OK, for now we’re just sitting on the fence trying to decide what to do.”
As for the theories floating around the Internet, Santry mentions, “There’s speculation about actual bodies. Apparently, a lot of people disappear in Columbus, Ohio—something I’m not too familiar with, even though I’m a big crime junkie. The Internet is about 50/50 on that. whether it’s a dead body or an animal, and maybe 10% think this is just a dump.However, at this point, we’ve dug up a lot of posts and fenced off most of our yard, and I can say we haven’t come across any other carpet, so the internet thinks it’s either a dump, or a corpse, or a dead dog.”
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