Steven had no idea what to do when Keto started to dig into the grave. She was too strong to be stopped by him alone. He wanted to call for help but before he could press the dial tone, Keto stopped digging and started barking. She had found something. Steven nervously looked over the edge of the hole. His jaw dropped when he saw what Keto had uncovered…  Steven knew he needed to call the police. What Keto had dug up here… He just could not explain what it was doing here. He barely knew what it was. And when he explained it to the police, at first thought it was some sort of practical joke… When they arrived to check it out for themselves, they realized Steven had been telling the truth all along. But none of them had any idea about the scope of Keto’s find and what consequences it was going to have. But this would only be a matter of time… In the next couple of days, dozens of arrests were made. All because of what Keto had dug up in the graveyard. Steven is so happy he was not able to stop her that day. But what did Keto dug up in that grave. Why was the find so significant and how did it lead to so many arrests? Steven and his husky, Keto, took a walk together every afternoon when he got home from work. She was always gentle and sweet, but one day, she started behaving strangely as soon as they got close to an open field. Keto was pulling against Steven so hard that he could barely keep control of her. What had caught her attention? Keto went from pulling on the leash to actively fighting against Steven. She’d never acted that way before in her life! Steven lost his grip, and she sped away down the narrow street. Steven was thankful that few cars went through the area, but he had no idea where she was going. He chased after her. Once she had passed the two houses and the open field, Steven realized that his dog was running for the old graveyard. He started to feel uneasy. Hardly anyone went there anymore since there was a newer, larger cemetery in another part of town. Reluctantly, Steven jogged down one of the trails after Keto. Just as he’d suspected, there wasn’t anyone else in the graveyard. Steven could easily see Keto in the distance, though he was far too slow to catch up with her. As he looked around, he noticed that there were flowers on many of the graves. It surprised him. After all, it wasn’t exactly an ordinary cemetery… The graveyard was actually a military cemetery. It was designed with wooden crosses instead of headstones, making it difficult to find the right grave without stopping to read the inscriptions. Steven wondered how anyone navigated the place as he followed Keto and called her name. Plus, there was one other complication. In good weather, visitors would easily be able to read the names on the small metal plates below. But it was deep in the heart of winter, and the snow blanketed the entire graveyard. It was white crosses against white snow. Keto was still interested in something nearby. Steven wondered what could be hidden underneath the snow. While Steven watched her, Keto walked in between a row of crosses, her nose low to the ground. She sniffed and sniffed. Suddenly, she stopped at one grave that had a fresh bouquet of flowers on top. Keto froze and almost looked like she was getting ready to run away. After hesitating for a moment, the dog leaped forward and dug her paws into the snow. She tore at the grave, disturbing the flowers and sending petals flying. Steven was horrified by the sight. He sprinted over to Keto and grabbed her collar with both hands. But Keto had other ideas. Keto ignored Steven’s attempts to pull her away and continued lunging at the grave. She was so strong that Steven couldn’t do much to stop her. It wasn’t like he could just pick her up and carry her off the way he might with a smaller dog. Embarrassed, Steven looked around the cemetery for help. Something caught his eye. Steven saw a sign by the front gate and thought maybe the groundskeeper was nearby. He could tell the person about Keto’s digging, apologize, and at least offer to replace the flowers. Plus, he needed help getting Keto’s attention. But before he could reach the front gate, he was distracted by a sudden bark. Keto was staring at him and barking repeatedly as loudly as she could. Despite her strange antics that afternoon, Steven understood what she was trying to say. Keto often made that same bark when she was interested in something and wanted Steven to notice. Steven made his way back up the hill. What had she found? Steven knew that he should have called the groundskeeper and respected the privacy of the person buried there by staying away. It wasn’t right to snoop on another person’s grave. But Keto was so intensely fascinated by what she had found that Steven couldn’t resist. He had to know what had made his dog act out that much. Keto had dug through the snow and around the name plate at the base of the cross. She was standing over the muddy hole, her ears straight up as she waited for Steven to see her discovery. The dog was obviously excited by her find. Steven walked up beside her. When Steven finally peered down into the hole that Keto had made, he almost stumbled back in surprise. It was the last thing he ever expected to see in a cemetery. He stared at Keto, wondering what had made her sense such an unbelievable find. Steven fumbled with his phone. He had to call the police! Steven had expected to see flowers or some kind of trinket in the hole. He doubted that Keto could have dug deep enough in the cold earth to uncover a casket. But he never expected what was truly there. It seemed to defy all logic. Steven checked over his shoulder again, convinced that it must have been some kind of awful prank. At the bottom of the hole, Steven could see that the name plate had holes drilled into it. It appeared to extend much farther than what Keto had managed to uncover. He shined the light from his phone on the plate and stared at it, trying to understand what he was seeing. And there was more… There were even sounds coming through the holes. Steven couldn’t figure out what they could be. Using his foot, he cleared off a patch in front of the next grave. Once Keto caught on to what he was doing, she helped him dig. It was exactly the same as the first grave. Steven checked several graves and found plates with holes on most of them. But there was one that seemed normal. He also noted that there weren’t any flowers on that one. Maybe there was some kind of pattern. He searched for another grave with flowers and started to dig. The results shocked him. As Steven uncovered the grave with the flowers, he saw the same holes in the plate. He hadn’t called the police yet and was trying to figure out how to explain what he was seeing. The graves with flowers all had holes drilled into the name plates. What did it mean? Steven wondered if they were air holes to some kind of cage or even the casket below. They seemed to extend far down into the grave with the holes leading up to the surface. If there was something down there that didn’t belong, then maybe Keto had sensed it. But Steven had to be sure. Steven returned to the graves with the flowers and inspected each in greater detail. He wanted to be able to give the police the best possible description. Finally, he took a deep breath and called. He knew it would sound ridiculous to anyone else, but something wasn’t adding up. Why were there so many fresh flowers in a cemetery that old? But as one might expect, the police were not that easily convinced of Steven’s story. It all just sounded completely ridiculous and they figured it was probably a prank call or something. Steven didn’t know how to react at first, but he was determined not to let this go. Only when Steven kept persisting and sent a couple pictures from the hole that Keto had dug was the police willing to send a squad car. But if Steven was fooling then he would be in deep trouble. The officers where still doubting Steven. Steven knew he did the right thing to call them. While they were waiting for somebody to arrive, Keto finally calmed down a bit and stopped barking. But every time Steven would come close to the dug-up grave, Keto would react. There was something there that he did not like, that was for sure. But what could it possibly be? Steven had no idea. Steven didn’t really want to touch the other graves just in case he would mess something up before the police arrived, but man was he curious. So he just carefully started sweeping a bit of snow off one of the graves. His mouth fell open when he realised something odd. What he then noticed was something that he had not seen yet, because he had only inspected the nameplates. But the ground on the grave looked like it was covered by dirt. There was not a blade of grass to be found. This was certainly really odd, what was going on here? And indeed this was also the case for all, and only, the graves with flowers. Whatever had been done here, it had been done recently. Then the police finally arrived. He had to explain to them what was going on here, and what he had found. He had a weird feeling about all of this. 2 young officers got out of the car laughing a bit and just not being that serious by the looks of things. They thought they where going to meet a confused man with his dog. But their attitude would quickly change when they saw what was happening here. Steven had to keep Keto’s leash on a tied grip when the officers inspected the hole that the dog had dug. They were absolutely stumped by what they were seeing. This was something they had never encountered before, why did someone do this? why did Keto react this way. Steven also explained his other finds in relation to the flowers on the graves, the holes in the nameplates, and the fact that all these graves seemed to be fresh. Suddenly gears started to turn for one of the officers. It was like he got a strange feeling what was going on. It was obvious that the flowers had been to mark the graves. Someone needed to know which to dig up or maybe that already happened. And judging by the steel box with holes, these were not graves, these were temporary storage! But for what? And for who? The officers made a couple of calls back to the station trying to get permission to dig out the steel box that Keto had uncovered further or to cut through the top. Luckily they had been smart enough to pack the right equipment. It had to be this way, everything would soon fall into place. At the station, they did some checks and one of the officers quickly discovered that this whole graveyard actually was not listed anywhere. In other words, it should not exist, making this whole ordeal even stranger, but also easier. It was like it was setup just to bury some things here. If it didn’t exist, there would most likely also be no actual graves there. So the station had no problem with the officers doing whatever they had to do to get to the bottom of what was going on there. The people that did this obviously didn’t want anyone knowing what they were doing here. So what was this? The metal cutter quickly came out of the car and one of the officers started making a large hole in the metal box while the other officers inspected the other graves. Steven was still just trying to keep Keto calm. They still didn’t know why Keto was so on edge, they would soon uncover it. When the first officer finally finished his hole and showed his light in the box, his eyes went very wide and he was at a complete loss for words. But before he could say anything, the peace and quiet were suddenly disturbed by increasingly loud music. What in the world was going on here? The other officer came rushing back and said that another car was approaching. If these people had something to do with this, they needed to catch them in the act. So they needed to hide quickly. They had no idea who these people were, and if they are dangerous or not. Everybody was really tense. Luckily the police car had come from the complete another side as to where the music was now coming from, so that was already out of sight. They quickly picked up everything and dove behind the bushes. Steven kept Keto silent, and everybody was on high-alert. Adrenaline was rushing through everybody’s veins. Steven was just really hoping that he could keep Keto silent. He was calm now but with this dog, you could never know for how long. Then they saw the car approaching the entrance of the graveyard. They couldn’t quite see who were in the car, so they had to wait. Then the car came to a full stop. The music was shut off and 2 individuals stepped out. And they stepped out with shovels. The officers could see them looking at a map for a second before walking towards one of the graves. They were obviously in on the whole thing, and now they could catch them in the act. They were still quite relaxed at this point, but that immediately changed when they saw that the nameplate of their grave was uncovered and they noticed the giant hole at one of the other graves. They started to look around, one of them looked like he was about to faint. The officers saw that they started to panic and knew that they had to act now before these guys made a run for it. They jumped out to the bushes, equipment drawn, and arrested the guys. The guys did not realize at first what was going on, they looked completely lost for words. And the police lucked out big time with this arrest as it would prove to be the final piece of the puzzle. These boys were very young and very afraid to go to jail so they were willing to confess everything to avoid it. So they started talking. Apparently, this place was indeed not a graveyard but a secret distribution point for large and expensive imported items that could only be on the very black market so to speak. All the different graves with boxes were different orders for customers. There was one organization that specialized in smuggling these items into the states and they used these by themselves to create fake graveyards as places to store the item for their customers to come to pick up on their own. After payment of the course. And it seemed like a great idea as who in their right mind would go and dig up a fresh-looking grave with flowers? Who, but a very curious dog that had gotten a scent through one of the air holes. Keto was the hero of all of this, who had uncovered.  In the storage box that Keto dug up there ended up being very rare large cat hides. But they had been in there for a while and had not been properly made, so they had started to decay a bit and smell. This is how Keto managed to detect them. Keto and Steven had been at the right place at the right time. With the help of the 2 “customers”, the police managed to arrest all people locally involved in this organization and they are working on arresting the bigger fish as well in due time. They obviously appologised to Steven for making fun of him, he had uncovered something really big. He even got a medal, so did Keto. The case is still very much open but one thing is for certain, Keto is a hero. Without knowing it, she helped to put dozens of bad people behind bars and keep the local town a lot safer as a result of it. Steven could not be prouder.