Two teenage girls filmed the moment they found human remains squeezed into a suitcase dumped in a waterfront after thinking it could be filled with cash.
The clip shows the girls looking at the black zipped-up case before precariously opening it with the use of a stick which reveals it contains a suspicious looking object in a bin liner.
The girls in the video also said the suitcase stank once it was opened.
They pair called police who later revealed the suitcase and a second piece of luggage found at the location in Duwamish Head, Seattle, contained body parts.
Posting the video TikTok user UghHenry wrote in the caption of the video 'Something traumatic happened that changed my life' with the hashtags 'crime' and 'murder'.
A caption in the video explains: "We found this black suitcase. We were joking that maybe the suitcase would have money…[But] the smell was overwhelming".
One girl is heard telling the other: "Open it! It stinks, yo."
They initially burst out laughing before the mood turns more sombre when they realise the suitcase may contain something sinister.
A video caption pops up that says "little scared' and 'nervous'" before the cuts to one of the girls call police and officers arriving at the scene.
Seattle Police said they received a call about a suspicious bag on the beach on Friday afternoon but have not revealed who contacted them.
Officers also revealed a second bag containing human parts was found nearby in the water.
The remains will be taken to King County Medical Examiner's Office for further analysis, identify the body and determine a cause of death.
The teenagers in the video only learned that it was human remains after checking the news later on.
Local resident, John Rodie, told KING-TV: "It’s frightening to think that there’s someone out there that would do something like that."
According to the video the girls were led to the area by Randonautica app which encourages people to explore areas around them by using a random number generator to come up with a set of coordinates.
Joshua Lengfelder, who founded the app, told Wired: "There are two main parts to randonauting.
"'Exploring blindspots or places nearby that are outside of your conscious awareness, and experimenting with mind-machine interaction; the hypothesis that consciousness can influence the distribution of random numbers."
