Sara Bareilles finds animal bones behind unopened door in her home

Sara Bareilles discovered a pile of dead animal bones hidden behind a long-sealed door in her country home, a find she shared on Instagram Thursday. Filming herself as she cracked open a door she said had never been opened before, she crooned nervously before recoiling at what fell out.

She reacted in disbelief as debris spilled out, saying, “It’s a skull … it’s a skull … the bone of a maggot-filled skull.” Behind the door she described a mix of black soot, dirt and what appeared to be decomposing animal carcasses, exclaiming, “I don’t know what this thing is.

It’s a giant dragon. What the f–k?!” Bareilles returned with gloves, a paper bag and a garden shovel to remove the remains, calling them a “carcass and remains of some kind of giant rodent,” and guessing it might be a raccoon. As she uncovered more, she said, “This body is big.

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