Woman Buys Urn Necklace For Grandmother’s Ashes On Amazon But Finds A Stranger’s Remains Already In It

Woman Buys Urn Necklace For Grandmother’s Ashes On Amazon But Finds A Stranger’s Remains Already In It

A Canadian woman was horrified to discover that the urn necklace she purchased to place her grandmother’s ashes in already contained the remains of a stranger when it was delivered. Nadine Roy from Gatineau, Quebec, bought the piece of jewelry from a third-party seller on Amazon but certainly didn’t expect what arrived at her house a few days later.

  1. Roy was beside herself when she realized the problem. In a review she posted to the product’s Amazon page, Roy wrote, “I’m sick to my stomach. I don’t even know what to do. This is beyond unacceptable. I am so disgusted and I’m sorry to the ghost remains I just disturbed.”
  2. She actually purchased four different pendants from three different sellers. The necklaces were for herself, her mother, her brother, and a family friend so that each of them could have part of her grandmother’s remains with them. She chose a butterfly necklace for herself from a seller called Minfeel Jewelry. The seller had pretty solid reviews and was rated a “good seller” with an “impressive rating” of an overall 4.8 stars. Because of this, she had no reason to believe the transaction wouldn’t go smoothly.
  3. Roy’s necklace wasn’t wrapped securely like the others. When they arrived, Roy noticed that her necklace was thrown in a plastic zip bag, unlike the others that were securely packaged. “When I opened the canister … I was tilting it and all this dust came out. I realized pretty quickly that it was actually ashes,” she told CBC News. “There was little hairs in it. I have no words for it.”
  4. She received a refund but that’s no excuse. While the company who sold the necklace did return the nearly $57 she spent on the pendant, Roy feels what she received was still unacceptable.
  5. Roy handled the ashes she did receive with care. While she was unsure who or what they belonged to, she took the necklace and hung it in a tree in a cemetery in Ottawa. “I went to a graveyard, put it in a tree somewhere that was peaceful, quiet, beautiful to look at and just left it there,” she said. “I think that’s the most respectful thing I could do.”

Jennifer Still is a writer and editor with more than 10 years of experience. The managing editor of Bolde, she has bylines in Vanity Fair, Business Insider, The New York Times, Glamour, Bon Appetit, and many more. You can follow her on Twitter @jenniferlstill
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