Sara Bareillesstumbled upon an interesting discovery in the walls of her old farmhouse — and it was actually pretty terrifying.
The "Love Song" singer captured the moment on video and posted the details on herInstagramandTikTokaccounts.
In the video, she sang, "When you live in the country and you open a door, 'cause it's always been closed every time before. And you see some stuff falling out you think, maybe I should see what's inside."
She continued, "And it's a skull. And it's a skull. It's the bone of a maggot-filled skull."
The singer opened the small door to reveal soot and animal skeletons.
"I don't know what this thing is, it's a giantdragon," she sang. "What the f--k, what the f--k?"
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Bareilles noted that she hadn't been able to get the small chimney door opened before but decided to investigate when she found "all this s--t on the floor."
She tried to identify the findings, noting it was a "carcass and remains of some kind of giant rodent" and guessed perhaps it was a raccoon.
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TheWaitressstar took it upon herself to shovel out the discovery, but the situation took an even more terrifying turn.
"I'm really grossed out," she shared. "There's a better way to do this, I'm certain of it."
"This body is big, it's like aturkey," she explained before screaming. "Oh my god, it's like birthing itself backwards," she said. "There's multiples ... It's multiple things."
"That was traumatic," the "Brave" singer said after shoveling the remains into a paper bag.
Bareilles also shared how she summoned the courage to investigate the matter. "I've been watching a lot ofAlone. I won't give any spoilers, but you got to be tough," she explained. "If one of those contestants had encountered this, they would have boiled the bones."
After she was done, the singer noted, "Even though they're quite, very, very dead, I'm gonna sage the place and then I'm gonna take a shower."
On March 18, Bareilles took to Instagram to note how surprised she was that the video had gotten so much attention. "I don't think I've ever posted anything online that has gotten more interaction than me removing cat carcasses from an old chimney in my house," she wrote.
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