8 Families Discover They Have Been Visiting The Wrong Graves For 39 Years

If you read the title already, this is another big oof of a situation.

Imagine for all these years, you knew that one plus one always equalled two.

Suddenly, a future mathematician comes in to disprove all of that to somehow show that it would add up to three instead.

Look, that’s just an example, but imagine your whole perception being turned upside down.

And for some people, imagine paying respects to the wrong grave for years.

A Grave Mistake

This is about to get a bit wild so hang tight.

For 39 years, Mr Marn Chuan Lee paid respects to his grandmother’s grave at least once every three months.

According to Straits Times, he even tidies the place and hangs garden lights for it.

However, when the grave was dug up in August, he knew something was up when he saw stuffed toys, colour pencils and a necklace he did not recognise.

Naturally, he panicked and quickly informed the National Environment Agency (NEA)

I mean, anyone would if they realised they were visiting the wrong grave for possibly decades!

Apparently, the tombstone of another exhumed grave was misaligned, which led to other adjacent headstones being wrongly tagged to grave plots.

Only after exhuming five more graves did Mr Marn finally find his grandmother’s remains on 11 October.

According to the NEA, the burials done 39 years ago were all done on a single day, though I’m not sure if that makes the situation any better.

In fact, a total of nine graves were affected and misaligned because of this.

Disaster.

Extremely Rare Case

Luckily, a spokesman from the NEA has said that the buried remains of all affected families have since been verified.

This episode is the first time the NEA has encountered such an issue in the 16,800 exhumations conducted as of 30 September.

They were initially unable to proceed further with the case as further graves needed to be exhumed and that there were 8500 unclaimed graves at the time.

Sadly, Mr Marn still isn’t completely at peace of mind, understandably so.

Despite already cremating the remains, he is now slightly concerned about storing the ashes at a crematorium.

Probably afraid of another mix-up, understandable.

He currently keeps her ashes at home and is waiting to eventually store them at a Chinese temple.

This whole affair has made me concerned about a lot of things, like I should probably check for mistakes more often.

Casually checking through this article to make sure not to give my editors hell.