He asked TikTok if his house was visited. The police arrived

This all started about four or five days ago. How many followers have you gathered in that time?

I’m gone, let’s see, I haven’t been on TikTok for hours. I went from 6,000 to 576,000, so I gained 570,000 followers.

[Editor’s note: As of this writing, she now has 1.6 million followers.]

Geez.

This is crazy. This is the first time I have looked and seen it. This morning, I was at 200 something, so today I went from 200,000 something to half a million people. This is my first time looking.

I’m sorry I made you look, to be honest.

No, it’s crazy.

I am interested in the sleuth aspect. I know because you’ve mentioned in a few of your TikToks that you’re a fan of true crime.

Definitely.

I’m sure you understand the kind of impulse why people do this, but it looks like the conversion is now institutional.

I feel like I’m in an episode of Crime Junkie. I usually listen to it as I drive to work, and now I feel like I’m in an episode, so I’m like, where’s Ashley Flowers? Where are you? We need to talk. Yes.

I was alone for the first time, now, a minute without my phone ringing. I just took a deep breath and said that I have watched this happen to other people in movies, but this thing that happened to me is shocking.

Maybe this sounds like an obvious question, but do you feel different? There are many discussions about the impact of people’s interest in true crime. Was there ever a time when it became more real, somehow?

So when I was on Live, I was singing Danger! songs, because between the searchers to get here and the dogs to get here was 45 minutes. So I kept saying, “This is a commercial break,” and I thought there was no way in hell this was going to happen. This was a happy ending to a crazy story, and what a cool way to end the whole thing. Dogs can’t see anything. They left, case closed. That’s what I expected.

Then the dogs smelled it.

Yes, that first dog stayed, and I can hear it in the video, you can hear me walking and start shaking, and that’s when it became real for me. The second time the white dog sat down, I said, “This is very different.”

I bet.

You see things like this on social media and you’re like, “Oh, that’s so crazy. One in a million.” To be the one in a million, I can’t even put it into words that you’re out of body… I always feel like I’m going to wake up, and this was all just a crazy dream.

A few days ago you were making t-shirts.

Well, back when we, I think we had just hit 10,000 followers, we made t-shirts that said, “Keep digging.” Again, it was a joke. Then came other t-shirts that said, “I’m here to be reviewed.” It’s great what all the comments on my videos say.