A man who posts on TikTok as Cigarette Spaghetti and lists himself as a U.S. Army veteran said he began noticing unusual events after he bought an old house. He said he started recording what he saw on security cameras and his phone.
In a TikTok video he captioned “Six months ago I would’ve laughed at a story like this. Now I’m the one telling it,” he said that over the past six months he had gone from not believing in the supernatural to questioning just about everything he thought he knew. He said the first video had drawn hundreds of thousands of views.
He said he first checked a basement that smelled like a dead animal, and that workers found a hole in the foundation wall. He later showed clips of items he said were teeth, nails, and hair taken from that wall. He said odd events then grew more frequent, including objects that were not where he left them and sounds at night.
Follow-up video covers old newspaper reports and extra camera clips
In a follow up video on TikTok he said he looked into the history of the house after viewers suggested it. He thanked a librarian who he said helped him find records at a local history library. He said she located 34 documented incidents tied to the same property over the past 200 years.
He showed old newspaper headlines in that follow-up video. One from the Rochester Evening Journal dated May 6, 1913, read “BOARDER DISAPPEARS IN NIGHT; ROOM FOUND JUST AS LEFT.” Another from 1955 said a woman died in a Rochester house blaze. A later headline stated police found a man dead after a welfare call.
He also showed headlines about a bookkeeper found dead in 1939, a third fire at a Rochester house in 1970, and a young woman named Belle Granger listed as missing. He said, “I don’t think whatever’s happening started with me.” He added that he never met the seller because they were supposedly out of state, but he now thought that might have been untrue.
He said he had posted many other videos about the same house. In one he showed security-camera footage of a book falling from a shelf and later of a Bible on a table with a small flame on its cover. He said he woke to find all his kitchen cabinets open and that a basement door he never leaves open was wide open.
In a third TikTok video, he captioned “I think I finally figured out what it wanted,” he said he had been sick for a couple of weeks and that this would be his last update. He said he found extra clips while cleaning his camera and asked viewers to watch closely. He said, “I think everything is finally okay. I feel good.”
He showed grainy black-and-white shots of a stained stone wall, an old watch, a dead bird, a television playing a clip of a cat, and a door that appeared to bang. On-screen text told people not to skip anything. He asked viewers to share the video with as many people as possible. The investigation into the property’s history highlights how old houses can become focal points for disputes, as a construction worker in a separate incident started tearing down a house after an owner accused him of not being licensed.
He said he was documenting the events for his own peace of mind and for people who, like him a year earlier, would have laughed at such a story. Such unsettling discoveries in old homes are not uncommon, as when a new homeowner purchased a neglected house at a foreclosure auction and found something inside days later that forced him to call 911.
Viewer comments on the first video included: “You should get a cat. They’ll help regulate the spiritual realm around you.” Another wrote: “Babe, why are you talking about the house while in the house?”
One comment said: “Teeth, hair, and nails??? AND U MOVED THEM??” Another said: “Contact the Vatican. Explain you have a demon in your house. No bullshit this is not OK. Somebody was definitely doing some type of witchcraft in that house.”
Others wrote: “these always end up being skits” and “pretty good acting, but not good enough lol.” One added: “Hauntings in THIS economy? Oh nah. I’m ten toes down. You wanna haunt? Pay some rent.”
The claims and footages have not been verified by an independent source.
Published: Aug 22, 2026 10:30 am