Viral TikTok helps return remains found in PHX gym

Fox - 10 Phoenix
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Nov 10, 2026
New at 4, a box of cremated remains sat forgotten
in a Phoenix gym for years.
But tonight, thanks to a viral TikTok video,
those remains are now back in the hands of the rightful owner.
Fox 10's Andrel Mahomes has the story.
We have a mystery here at the gym today. We found a box of cremains.
During renovations at Central Boxing Gym,
managers found something unexpected in a trophy cabinet,
a box of cremated remains.
I didn't know if it was somebody that was just a boxing fan,
somebody with a tie to the gym or what. Emily called the funeral home,
but the only contact on file
was a former gym manager who had passed away.
So she turned to TikTok. But we'd like to maybe try to find
The video connected her with Michael McCain,
whose family once owned the gym.
He knew the remains belonged to Robert Sean Clark,
a man who once worked for his father.
Kind of an indispensable employee of my father's at one time.
Robert's remains were supposed to be picked up after
his death, but they never were.
Over the years, they were moved around the gym and forgotten.
Michael's father assumed Robert's family had them.
My father thought that they had been with his family,
unbeknownst to him.
Michael has come to bring Robert home.
Thank you so much for coming to reunite Mr. Clark with his family.
Thank you for finding these and locating them
and reaching out to the public and getting them to us.
These have been lost for quite some time.
The next stop is Flagstaff.
Now he can honor Robert's wishes of having
his ashes spread up in northern Arizona.
In Phoenix, Andrel Mahomes, Fox 10 News.
