PITTSBURGH — “Get it better. Make it right and don’t let this happen again.”
Scott, a Pittsburgh native, reached out to Channel 11 after making a disturbing discovery at Homewood Cemetery in Squirrel Hill.
For more than a decade, he envisioned his final resting place to be in Homewood Cemetery, right next to his father.
“Psychologically, everything, ... I was preparing mentally for this and where my final resting spot was going to be next to my father,” he told Channel 11.
But that vision came to an end after his sibling FaceTimed him from the cemetery and showed him that someone had been buried in his plot. Scott had paid for the plot more than a decade ago.
“All of a sudden there’s somebody in the spot next to my father’s grave with a tombstone. And I was like, ‘Bro, what is that?’”
The next day, he started making calls to the cemetery.
“(The employee) said, ‘Oh my God, the cemetery made a huge mistake. The groundskeeper mis-marked the grave and buried somebody else in the wrong spot, which was your spot.’ And I was like, ‘You gotta be kidding me.’ How did they make a mistake like that?”
After discussing possible resolutions to the major mistake, Scott decided he wanted a refund....