‘I kept digging’: Owner makes unexpected discovery in his backyard

A homeowner in the US has made an unexpected discovery in his backyard.

TikToker Davey Struggle was investigating a section of his lawn on his property in Idaho that he claims has remained lacklustre for years.

The single stretch of grass appeared a pale yellow, standing starkly out from its neighbouring blades of lush green.

“No matter what I do, this spot on my lawn keeps drying out every year,” Struggle shared in a recent video to his more than 400,000 followers.

In the video, Struggle films himself cutting around the problem area with a shovel before carefully removing sections of the grass to reveal a sizeable area of earth.

He was compelled to explore beneath the surface after others online uncovered large boulder-size rocks in their yards.

“Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m going to do if I do find a huge rock buried here,” he said.

Struggle then removes several centimetres or more of dirt. He then hits a layer of dense clay.

He had hoped the clay was the issue. He worked the earth with what appeared to be a mattock to break the soil apart.

However, he would find something else.

“But as I kept digging, I kept getting more and more clay, which the grass roots could not penetrate, which is what was probably causing my lawn to dry out every summer” he shared.

It didn’t end there.

After further digging, Struggle hit what he believed was a large root system. It was not.

Struggle hits something he describes as “construction debris”, which he claims was left behind from the building of his house five years ago.

He continues working on the yard, removing the old soil and replacing it with fresh soil.

He then fills in the space he’d dug away and returned the sections of grass on top.

Last week, Struggle provided an update on the lawn’s progress. 

The once yellow patch of grass is now a lush green.

Yet, if the garden aficionado thought the more than 26 million views on his video was purely about his lawn solution, he might be surprised to learn it was not.

Eagle-eyed followers immediately noticed the “construction debris” Struggle uncovered appeared to be a box with a lock on it.

“What’s in the box man?” one person wrote.

“What’s trapped in that box?” a second person wrote.

“Are we not gonna open the box?” yet another person wrote.

Struggle never addressed the discovery of the box in the video, leading some to question the authenticity of the video.

All he did say was: “The construction debris? I didn’t check.”

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