Neighbor watered the same patch of land every day where nothing grew: when the police arrived, they found something sh0cking there.
Every morning, at exactly 6:30, my neighbor would step into the yard with a yellow hose in her hands. And every time, the routine was the same: she watered a tiny patch near the fence. Always that one spot. The rest of the garden, where tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries thrived, stayed completely dry.
At first, I assumed she was tending to some unusual plants. But after several days, it became obvious—nothing grew there. Just wet, lifeless soil.
Finally, I couldn’t hold back and asked:
Why do you water this patch so often?
She shivered, her hands trembling, and without meeting my eyes, muttered:
— I have potatoes here… a special variety.
Potatoes? Watered like that every single day? I knew she was lying, but I decided to stay quiet and just observe.
A week went by.
The soil remained bare, and my neighbor grew increasingly nervous and irritable. Sometimes I caught her gazing at me with an intense, uneasy look, as if she knew I noticed something.
That night, I barely slept. One thought kept looping in my mind: what if there was something truly wrong there? The next morning, I called the police. My report sounded odd to them, but they agreed to check. What they found in the yard surprised everyone.
When the police entered, my neighbor turned pale. She tried to explain that it was just a habit, that she couldn’t bear to leave her plants unwatered. But the more she spoke, the more frantic she seemed.
One officer knelt down by the wet patch and started digging. Minutes later, the shovel struck something hard. As the soil was removed, I almost screamed.
A doll’s hand protruded from the dirt.
It later turned out that she had buried her old, lifeless doll there, pretending it was something sinister. She had spun a dark story to hide her guilt over something much smaller, hoping no one would notice. Her panicked watering ruined the soil’s cover, leaving the bare patch—and the doll’s hand—visible.
Sometimes I think… if she had watered the whole garden evenly, I might have never discovered it.
