A grieving family has discovered that they had been visiting the wrong grave for 17 years.
After nearly two decades of mourning, Tom Bell and his siblings from England found out that their father’s grave actually contained a woman’s coffin.
Speaking of the shocking discovery, the family revealed how they wanted to bury their mother next to their father only for gravediggers to find the wrong coffin in the grave that the family had been visiting for 17 years.
As the shocked children say, they’ve been forced to keep their mother at a funeral home for five weeks while the gravediggers at the Holy Trinity Church cemetery, which is managed by the Diocese of Durham, are struggling to find the real resting place of their father.
So far, the gravediggers reportedly already dug up a series of graves but still haven’t found the man or any signs of his whereabouts.
“Losing our mam was devastating. And then to be told the grave of our dad we have spent the last 17 years visiting is not his is just unbearable. How could this happen?” 58-year-old Tom Bell said.
“Our mam is lying in a funeral home waiting to be buried and our dad is somewhere in the cemetery in an unmarked grave.”
The grieving son added: “Seventeen years ago when dad died mum bought the plot so she could be with him when she died. Mum used to go every Friday on her way to the hairdressers to take flowers and clean the gravestone.
“When they went to dig the grave two days before the funeral the gravedigger could only get five feet down when they should apparently be able to go eight feet down for a double plot and they found someone else’s coffin in dad’s grave.”
As the family insists, they could not believe the horrifying news at first. Now, they’re still struggling to accept the reality while their mother remains at the funeral home and the search for their dad continues.
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