{"id":6081,"date":"2025-03-27T02:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:15:50","slug":"woman-buys-used-couch-for-50-finds-secret-compartment-with-something-that-made-her-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/woman-buys-used-couch-for-50-finds-secret-compartment-with-something-that-made-her-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Buys Used Couch for $50 \u2014 Finds Secret Compartment with Something That Made Her Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='\"\"' data-start='\"275\"' data-end='\"293\"'><strong data-start='\"275\"' data-end='\"293\"'>March 26, 2025\n<p class='\"\"' data-start='\"295\"' data-end='\"448\"'>When 42-year-old Melissa Carr picked up a slightly worn couch from a local thrift store, she never imagined she\u2019d be calling the police just hours later.\n</p><p class='\"\"' data-start='\"450\"' data-end='\"695\"'>\u201cI felt something hard under the cushion, and I thought maybe it was a remote or someone\u2019s phone,\u201d Melissa said in a TikTok video that\u2019s now sitting at <strong data-start='\"602\"' data-end='\"624\"'>12.7 million views. \u201cBut then I found a zipper&hellip; and inside was a <strong data-start='\"673\"' data-end='\"693\"'>locked metal box.\u201d\n<p class='\"\"' data-start='\"697\"' data-end='\"802\"'>Curiosity got the best of her. With the help of her neighbor, she managed to open the box \u2014 only to find:\n</p><ul data-start='\"804\"' data-end='\"977\"'>\n<li class='\"\"' data-start='\"804\"' data-end='\"864\"'>\n<p class='\"\"' data-start='\"806\"' data-end='\"864\"'><strong data-start='\"806\"' data-end='\"864\"'>A stack of hundred-dollar bills, bound in rubber bands\n\n<li class='\"\"' data-start='\"865\"' data-end='\"903\"'>\n<p class='\"\"' data-start='\"867\"' data-end='\"903\"'><strong data-start='\"867\"' data-end='\"903\"'>A mysterious, unmarked USB drive\n\n<li class='\"\"' data-start='\"904\"' data-end='\"977\"'>\n<p class='\"\"' data-start='\"906\"' data-end='\"977\"'><strong data-start='\"906\"' data-end='\"977\"'>And a photo of two people in what looked like a government facility\n\n\n<p class='\"\"' data-start='\"979\"' data-end='\"1156\"'>\ud83d\udea8 She immediately contacted the authorities. Within hours, two plainclothes agents were reportedly seen at her house, taking the items and asking her <strong data-start='\"1130\"' data-end='\"1155\"'>not to speak to media.\n<p class='\"\"' data-start='\"1158\"' data-end='\"1202\"'>Melissa hasn\u2019t posted on social media since.\n</p><p class='\"\"' data-start='\"1204\"' data-end='\"1234\"'>\ud83e\udde0 Online theories range from:\n</p><ul data-start='\"1235\"' data-end='\"1354\"'>\n<li class='\"\"' data-start='\"1235\"' data-end='\"1262\"'>\n<p class='\"\"' data-start='\"1237\"' data-end='\"1262\"'>\u201cShe found spy evidence.\u201d\n\n</p></li><li class='\"\"' data-start='\"1263\"' data-end='\"1299\"'>\n<p class='\"\"' data-start='\"1265\"' data-end='\"1299\"'>\u201cThat USB had blackmail material.\u201d\n\n</p></li><li class='\"\"' data-start='\"1300\"' data-end='\"1354\"'>\n<p class='\"\"' data-start='\"1302\"' data-end='\"1354\"'>\u201cThe government planted it to test public reaction.\u201d\n\n\n</p><p class='\"\"' data-start='\"1356\"' data-end='\"1409\"'>Stay tuned. Something tells us this story isn\u2019t over\u2026\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>March 26, 2025 When 42-year-old Melissa Carr picked up a slightly worn couch from a local thrift store, she never imagined she\u2019d be calling the police just hours later. \u201cI felt something hard under the cushion, and I thought maybe it was a remote or someone\u2019s phone,\u201d Melissa said in a TikTok video that\u2019s now [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/6083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorebloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></li></ul></strong></p></strong></p></li></strong></p></li></strong></p></li></ul></strong></strong></p></strong></p>