Family's horror as they find wrong man in loved one's casket wearing his suit

A distraught family has accused a home of putting the wrong man in their loved one’s casket and dressing the stranger’s corpse up in his suit. Amentha Hunt said her family was shocked when they arrived at the Harrison-Ross Mortuary in Compton, , to say goodbye to her uncle Otis Adkinson, 80, only to be greeted with another man wearing his clothes.

When Amentha and family confronted the , an employee tried to convince them that they were ones mistaken, according to a lawsuit. When the family asked a worker for help, the upset niece said the employee insisted the stranger in the casket was her uncle

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It wasn’t until she insisted there was an error and provided a picture of her uncle to the funeral home that the employee admitted to the mistake, Ms Hunt continued. : "It was a guy laying there in my uncle’s suit, but it wasn’t my uncle. It shouldn’t have happened. I didn’t make arrangements there to see the wrong body.”

Ms Hunt said it took three hours for the mortuary to fix the mix-up so her uncle could finally be laid to rest, but the image of the stranger in Adkinson’s suit is still burned in her mind. She lamented: “It’s hurt. I still think about it. That’s something that’s never going to go away, to view the wrong corpse. I still can see that guy.”

Elvis Tran, an attorney representing Hunt, called the mortuary’s actions outrageous, and showed that the business needs to change the way it operates.

“For them to come in and see the wrong corpse and for the mortuary to deny that it’s the wrong corpse and then need proof that it’s in fact the right person,” Mr Tran told the local outlet.

“We think it’s just a basic standard of care that they messed up on and that they really need to improve their ways, so they don’t do this to another family,” he added. Harrison-Ross Mortuary has denied the allegations against them and said they are preparing to file a cease-and-desist letter against her.

Mr Adkinson, who died on Feb. 28, 2025, was a Memphis native who worked for Southern California’s Schaefer Ambulance Service as an EMT for 29 years before being promoted to supervisor,

His family described him as a “good ole country boy” who enjoyed , barbecuing, dancing, and watching the play.

In April, social media's Yorkshire Funeral Director, Jacob Walsh, who is based in Goole, East Riding of , took to to open up on his experiences with the paranormal at his workplace.

" - have I seen them? Have I experienced them?" he asked rhetorically in a video. "I've felt a presence - usually in the mortuary, which is completely understandable as it's where people in my care are resting."

Jacob admitted that initially he put his chilling experiences down to the fact he works late into the day by which point he's tired, but over time "more and more things have happened" prompting him to have a rethink.