ICYMI: The Most Famous Rug in Ohio

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Candice Lim is joined by Slate producer Cheyna Roth to recap the spooky adventures of a woman in Ohio who found a rug buried in her backyard. In September, a woman in Ohio named Katie Santry woke up to discover her laptop was broken and items on her desk were rearranged, leading her to believe her house was haunted. However, she also dropped the small fun fact that while digging up a hole in her backyard for a fencing project, her family discovered a rolled-up carpet buried underground. What transpired next included cadaver dogs, overnight police units, and neighborhood live streams. But the rapidity of her fame brings into question social media’s influence on local law enforcement and the state of true crime theorists on TikTok. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim with production assistance from Kevin Bendis, Maura Currie, and Kat Hong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.6	Hey, I'm Candace Lim.
0:42.4	And I'm Shana Roth, and you're listening to I see why am I.
0:46.0	In case you missed it.
0:47.8	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:50.3	And Shana, you are a senior producer here at Slate.
0:52.9	You work on a lot of shows like What Next TVD, political gap fest.
0:57.0	But I wanted you on the show today because you are also a true crime author.
1:02.0	Candace, things are out of control in Ohio, my neighbor to the south.
1:06.5	And as someone from Michigan, I have to say, Ohio regularly haunts me.
1:13.0	But how much does Ohio haunt you?
1:20.7	Constantly. It taunts me in a way that I do not love, but I weirdly feel kinship with. Speaking of kinship,
1:28.8	it is October, which means spooky season. Probably my third favorite holiday of the year. Halloween is coming up. Are you a
1:34.0	Halloween person? Okay. My birthday is October 30th. Please send gifts. So I've always been a
1:41.8	Halloween person. I believed it was my holiday. And growing up, I always made my
1:48.0	friends wear costumes to my birthday party. And as I got older, my birthday parties turned into
1:52.9	classic scary movie nights slash taking trips to haunted houses. So yeah, me and Halloween were
1:59.9	close. I think that's really cute. What was like your
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