TQ. For years they ate, laughed, and argued above the same table — never knowing the woman they searched for was buried quietly beneath their feet.

For thirteen years, the house stood untouched — the same ticking clock, the same framed family photo gathering dust on the mantel. Neighbors said it felt frozen in time, as if waiting for someone who never came home. But when new owners began renovating the dining room, a hollow echo beneath the floorboards stopped everything. What they found there turned a missing-person case into one of the most chilling discoveries the town had ever seen. The woman everyone had searched for, the mother who vanished without a trace, had never truly left. And the truth about who put her there unraveled a secret that would shatter everything her family believed.

For years they ate, laughed, and argued above the same table — never knowing the woman they searched for was buried quietly beneath their feet.

Every dinner carried her ghost: the same table, the same curtains, and the unbearable truth lying just below the floorboards.

The dining room stood untouched for years — a shrine of routine masking the unspoken horror sealed beneath its floor.