A woman found BONES in the walls while renovating her 16th century farmhouse - and discovered a murderer lived next door.
Emmie Brookman, 28, from Barrowford, Lancashire, UK bought the three-bedroom property with her fiancé Norton Johnston, 34, and had to renovate it after finding pink mould on the walls.
The couple hand-chiselled off the exterior render themselves - after being quoted £17,000 - but were surprised when they found a bone in the wall.
After initially being "creeped out" Emmie discovered bones used to be put in walls to ward of evil.
Emmie Brookman, 28, from Barrowford, Lancashire, UK bought the three-bedroom property with her fiancé Norton Johnston, 34, and had to renovate it after finding pink mould on the walls.
The couple hand-chiselled off the exterior render themselves - after being quoted £17,000 - but were surprised when they found a bone in the wall.
After initially being "creeped out" Emmie discovered bones used to be put in walls to ward of evil.
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00:00So when we got the house it was damp, mouldy, horrible, so we started removing all the cement
00:04render but the house started falling apart inside and out. So whilst we figured out what to do with
00:09our mullion windows, we got to removing every inch of mortar from inside and out the house.
00:15Now after that we started line pointing, which not only is it fantastic for the house because it
00:21allows the walls to breathe, it's also really fun to do. I actually found this the most fun
00:25part of the whole process, it's so therapeutic. Here I was pretending not to be scared of heights
00:29at the top of the scaffolding, but yeah then it came to the mullions and once we got the render off
00:34they were just crumbled inside which was very stressful. So we prepped the house and our stonemason
00:39carved us seven new mullions from matching sandstone and here they are fitting them which was very
00:44scary. They even let us have a go at carving which was so cool and yeah here she is partially restored
00:50back to her 16th century beauty. We then realised we had no glass and it was due to snow. We then
00:55searched high and low for a professional window fitter but nobody wanted to take on this task
01:00so like everything else with this house we thought how hard can it be? So we ordered our custom glass
01:05units and just gave it a go. We used a combination of heritage putty, lime mortar and oak wedges
01:11and thought if it doesn't work we can always just redo it. But it actually worked a treat, the windows
01:17look as though they've always been there and we even added back in the lead diamonds which cast
01:21these gorgeous shadows and here is the finished house.
01:25It's the finished house it's been done for the last part.
01:28Let's put our new house and then look back up.
01:32So let's put a warm up and give it a break.
01:34We will have the next one to see and watch out and see the next one.
01:41We will soon see one of the other two weeks.
01:41Let me see.