Montreal Man Distraught Over Mysterious Disappearance of Grandfather’s Gravestone

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A gentleman from Montreal is left puzzled and distressed after the grave marker of his grandfather inexplicably vanished from its long-held place in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery. Used to its constant presence during his visits, Andre Drouin expressed confusion at the marker’s inexplicable disappearance.

“I paced the distance up and down, at least fifteen times, ensuring I wasn’t disoriented,” Drouin intimated, unable to shake off a creeping sense of unease. Amidst the 6,500 gravestones speckled across the cemetery grounds, it was during a recent visit that he discerned the absence of one – the grave of his grandfather. His last visit to the site dated back to 2015.


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Upon his return, Drouin was greeted with nothing but a gaping emptiness where his grandfather’s gravestone had once stood. Cemetery records list his grandfather, Clement Drouin, as an eternal resident of plot R00867, a central position leaning towards the cemetery’s northeastern quadrant. Clement’s grave had been a permanent fixture there since 1965 and intriguingly, the adjacent marker remains unaffected.

When the cemetery overseeing body was questioned about this odd circumstance, they were quick to clarify that they only take accountability for the upkeep of the burial grounds while responsibility towards individual gravestones falls on the respective families. They further explained that the severe annual freeze and thaw cycles could potentially swallow up a gravestone. Despite this claim, Drouin turned up empty-handed when he tried to excavate it himself.

Having never had a chance to meet his grandfather, Drouin holds the gravesite in great sentimental regard, akin to a precious thread linking him to his preceding generation. His already strained emotional state was dealt another blow in 2019 when he lost his father.

“I had been toying with the idea of having my dad interred here, close to his own father,” Drouin shared, the anguish palpable in his voice. However, confronted with the perplexing disappearance of his grandfather’s grave marker and a lack of financial resources to procure a substitute, he lamented, “Now, I am utterly clueless about his resting place.”