The family had visited the wrong tomb for 17 years: They Learned the Truth After Mother's Death

Tom Bell and his sisters discovered that someone else was buried in their father's tomb after the death of the mother who had demanded that she be buried near her husband, Thomas Bell. But the family was shocked when they were suffering from their mother's death, Hildi, they accepted a phone call from an entrepreneur who informed them that the undertakers had found a stranger's body in the coffin where their father should be.

As a result, their mother is now being held in a coffin in her home, as the family is desperately trying to find the place where their father was buried.

Tom, 58, a factory worker, told The Northern Echo: “Mother's death was devastating to us”.

Then we were told that the grave we've visited for 17 years was wrong and that was unacceptable to us. How could this happen? Our mother is in her coffin at home for five weeks waiting to be buried, and our father is in an unknown tomb”.

Moreover, the person buried in the wrong place had had had the tombstone of another man during all this time, apparently another family has visited the wrong tomb because of the confusion.

Showing how he felt when he heard the news, Tom said: “We couldn't believe what we were hearing”.

Since then the family has identified an unmarked location just two meters away from where they believe their father may be buried and are now waiting for a permit to begin exhuming. /Periscopi/