South Carolina Woman Smelled Something Strange in Her Rental’s Bathroom. She Found Out Why Through the Mailbox.
Not all houses are perfect—some need repairs, and others hide unimaginable secrets. When Savy (@savysnowxo) from South Carolina moved into a rental with her family, she thought the house was perfect. But there was one problem—there was an inexplicable scent coming from her bathroom that just wouldn’t go away.
Savy found the house online through a real estate company from California. She went in for a home showcase, and the property had everything she wanted. But she was concerned by the odd smell in the home. When they reached the bathroom in the hallway, the scent became overwhelming. The man who was taking her for the house tour brushed Savy’s concern off, saying that it’s probably just because nobody had been living in the home for three months.
He further stated that the company took care of the paint job, bought new carpets, and even replaced the old bathtub the former tenant cracked. It all seemed too good to be true, but Savy signed her lease two weeks later and moved in with her family.
Was it a dead rat?
Upon moving in, the kids slept in her room for the night. She decided to shower in the hallway bathroom so that she wouldn’t wake her kids up. During her bath, the scent was so overbearing that Savy had to hold her breath.
“I’ve seen a lot of stuff. I smelled a lot of stuff, but nothing like this,” Savy said. She works in healthcare, and hospitals tend to have an assortment of unpleasant smells. In desperation, she even tried to spray the room with Bath & Body Works, but the odor stayed in the room like an oppressive presence.
She contacted the real estate company to do something about the smell the next day, and they sent the maintenance man out. When he went in, even he was struck by the smell. In the end, the maintenance man couldn’t figure out what was wrong. The company then sent a plumber after Savy asked them to check the pipes. But even the plumber didn’t find any issues.
She complained a third time to the real estate company, and they sent an exterminator to get back to her. The exterminator suggested that Savy might have dead rats in her bathroom wall. Savy was taken aback, upset that she and her kids may have been exposed to biohazards.
The exterminators were supposed to come in a day later but went earlier upon her request. When the man came and walked into the bathroom, he gave a chilling response.
“I’ve smelled dead rats. This isn’t a dead rat,” he said. Nevertheless, he still wanted to help Savy with her problem, so he checked for rats anyway. He found no rats. Savy breathed a sigh of relief, but she was still at a loss about the putrid smell haunting her home.
The answer was in the mailbox
Savy forgot her work badge at home, so she turned around to get it. For some reason, she got the sudden urge to check out the mailbox. When she opened it, there was still mail addressed to the lady who lived in the house three months ago—the same woman who cracked the bathtub.
“How big is she to crack the bathtub?” Out of curiosity, Savy did more digging. She looked the woman’s name up on Google to snoop like a nosey neighbor.
“The first thing that came up is legacy.com, and the girl was just 29 years old,” Savy said. She also found out that the woman just died three months ago. At this point, Savy was connecting the dots. The previous tenant left not because she moved, but because she passed away.
The discovery irked Savy, and she told her coworkers about her discovery. But she wasn’t done searching for answers, so she went to Facebook. There, she found a neighborhood group.
She typed her home address in the search bar, and a post appeared. It was from a neighbor who posted a tribute regarding the woman who had just passed away, telling the community to “pray for the next family” who would be living in the home.
A lady passed away in the bathroom
Savy reached out to the neighbor, and that’s when she got the full story. The woman who had lived before her and the children was from the military. She was a beautiful, young woman who was originally from California.
This neighbor was walking her dog, and she noticed that the packages delivered days ago to the home were still on the lady’s porch. She didn’t mind it at first, thinking that the lady must have left for work—it’s typical for the military, after all. Then, three months went by, and she started smelling a pungent scent from the house.
They wouldn’t figure out what was causing the scent until the best friend of the military lady checked on her. When emergency services broke into the home, some of the police officers threw up on the yard. The lady was dead, and her body was brought out of the house in the bath tub she passed away in.
She took her own life with a gun, and the bullet ricocheted off the wall and cracked the bathtub. Because of the incident, the fluids soaked through the subflooring of the bathroom. All this happened in the home Savy was staying at, and yet, she claimed that the real estate company didn’t inform her about the home’s gruesome history.
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