My husband dug a hole in our yard and discovered a bag of BONES… our home quickly became a crime scene

A Tennessee woman has unexpectedly starred in CSI: My Backyard after a bag of bones was found inside her behind her house.

Rebecca-Lynne Echols detailed her local brush with crime in a TikTok, explaining that her husband Chandler had come across the suspicious bag while digging holes to plant trees.

‘It hit metal and kept digging and then hit dust and kept trying to pull it up to see what it was,’ Rebecca-Lynne explained in the video. ‘Then he hit what he thought was a tree root and went to get it out, but it wasn’t a tree root.

“It was a bone.”

Her garden went from potentially tree-lined to full of police and forensic investigators

The mother of one said they immediately called police as soon as they realized what they had found.

Before they knew it, their backyard was crawling with police and forensic investigators, although Chandler managed to get involved in the search.

“They had him at the spot where he had dug the holes for the trees and they had him on his phone doing research on who the previous owners were and if they had a possible relationship with a serial killer in our area,” she explained out in the feature-length video, which has been viewed more than 1.2 million times.

“So basically they just wanted to rule out that this had to do with anyone.”

Rebecca-Lynne said the history of their own home – which they had moved into their home from Florida seven months earlier – was not strange: the previous owners moved out after a year due to family problems, and the owners before that were the worst. It is a crime to be a hoarder and to own too many animals.

However, she admitted that the area had a bit of a dark history that neither she nor her husband were aware of.

“There had been several mysterious murders in their neighborhood,” she explained.

“There’s also another murder that happened in our neighborhood about 20 years ago, and someone disembodied (killed) his wife, and she was found in a retention pond near our house.

“So this area, I think, is just known for that, which we didn’t realize when we moved here,” she said.

Rebecca-Lynne originally posted a short TikTok showing a tent set up in their garden as she watched from her veranda

The mother of one said her husband initially thought he had hit a tree root, but it turned out to be a bag of bones

She joked that the discovery was a “big event” for their town, with everyone coming out to watch police dig up the bones

In the TikTok, she revealed the bag of bones that were eventually dug up, noting that the bag was shredded and the bones were old

Rebecca-Lynne then showed a photo of the bag containing the bone, which was completely shredded and rotting so badly that the bones looked more like charred wood.

“It was actually torn to pieces because the police finally pulled it out and literally tore it piece by piece,” she explained. “They found a few bone fragments, put them in a bag and basically just took them for DNA testing.”

She added that they had a forensics officer look at the bones to see if they were people or animals, and they couldn’t tell the difference, adding that they found no skull during their search.

“(They) should hopefully have an answer for us sometime this week,” she said.

Rebecca-Lynne said they watch a lot of crime shows. Chandler is not “traumatized” by the findings

She added that they are “super old,” so she isn’t infringing on active cases by posting them online.

“It could be a cold case or someone’s pet,” she explained, although Chandler said that “he didn’t think it was a deer bone,” and “police said they pretty much suspected a human or a Great Dane.”

In response, she said police verified the bones were not children’s bones based on their size.

Rebecca-Lynne added that Chandler isn’t traumatized by what they found, and joked that they listened to “Crime Junkies and Sword and Scale.”

“We had fun with it,” she said.

TikTok users chimed in with their theories about where the bones could have come from.

“I think they are animal bones from the hoarders,” one person wrote.

“Maybe his exhumation will bring closure to a family that has been waiting for them. Hopeful for a happy ending either way,” another added.