Jaroslaw Carolinski returned home to find his parents laying flowers at ‘his’ grave (Picture: CEN)

A son returned to his home town and greeted his parents… as they laid flowers on his grave.

Jaroslaw Carolinski, from Siedliska, Poland, had been declared dead after his mother and father mistook a body found by police in a forest near the Ukranian border for his.

The 38-year-old left without warning in October 2011 to ‘find himself’ and his parents were certain their missing son was gone forever.

But he finally returned home last week and on seeing his upset parents standing over his grave, declared: ‘Hello mum and dad. I’m back.’


His mother reportedly fainted when she saw him, with Mr Carolinski saying the whole incident had been surreal.



‘Of course they [his parents] were both shocked and delighted to see me,’ he added.

The prosecutor’s office is now working to determine who is actually buried in the grave.