A body was found rolled up in a carpet in an abandoned home and it had apparently been there for several months.
Police in Douglasville, Georgia do not know whom the body belonged to.
The grim discovery was made over the weekend as neighbours say the body had been there for months, Fox 5 reports.
One neighbour who wished to remain anonymous told local news that the authorities told her the body had been there since winter.
They said: "From the looks of it, he had been there since January or a little bit before.
"It could have been my brother, my uncle, or father who was missing."
Neighbours are also having trouble feeling safe in their homes as they can't understand how something so disturbing happened close to them.
Another neighbour said: "It's very alarming. We have a couple of arguments, a couple of fights, but nothing like this ever took place."
In August 2021, we reported on how a reclusive dad's 'mummified' body was found next to his sofa after a bird was seen trapped inside the house - while a tree was growing through a car outside.
Neighbour Pauline Blake, 76, was worried about the jackdaw's welfare and knocked on John Noble's door to speak to him, but no-one answered at the ramshackle three-storey home.
Still getting no answer a few days later, Mrs Blake called 101 to report concerns for the hoarder's welfare and police arrived at the Huddersfield home within 15 minutes.
Officers found his remains when they broke down the door. An inquest heard that dad-of-four Mr Noble had been dead for a year and his body was in a state of "mummification".
Speaking after the inquest, Mrs Blake told The Sun that she had seen the bird inside the house for a couple of days and was worried it was trapped upstairs.
She said Mr Noble didn't answer when she knocked on his door and called out to him, and she had rarely seen him in the nine years she had lived nearby.
The dad was found in April after neighbours said they had not seen him for between 12 and 18 months, YorkshireLive reported.
An inquest heard that the front door of his home was blocked by a large pole that formed a makeshift barricade.
A police officer found Mr Noble's body next to a settee.
