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Channel 4 show to feature Oldham home bought at auction

Channel 4’s BAFTA award-winning show, The Great House Giveaway, returns to screens this autumn which challenges two strangers to renovate a property bought from auction in a strict time frame of six months. The pair are given a set budget and if the project is successful, both get to share the profits, or the house goes back to auction. Get the latest news delivered straight to your inbox by signing up to The Oldham Times’ morning and evening newsletters as well as our breaking news alerts In one episode, presenter Simon O’Brien gives Naomi Hanmer and Terry-Ann, who met just…
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Internet Urges Couple To Leave Home After Finding Suitcase With Eerie Contents While Renovating

Upon making a rather ghostly discovery in her newly bought 1960s retro home, a woman sparked creepy speculations and was rapidly urged to give her home up. A woman, who runs the TikTok page stonestack_rennovation, spooked the internet after opening a suitcase she found hidden behind a wall in her new home. Using her TikTok account, the homeowner documented how she had recently moved into a 1960s home with her partner, naturally prompting the pair to embark on an exploration of their new property. A woman shares a creepy discovery she made while renovating the 1960s home she bought with…
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Canada’s largest house and infamous northern Ontario eyes set to star in ‘Mansion Impossible’

After years of sitting abandoned, things are finally happening at one of northern Ontario’s most infamous eyesores. The Grant mansion on Lake Temiskaming in Haileybury is said to be the largest house in Canada, but it was never finished. Now it is set to star in a proposed new reality TV show called Impossible Mansion. “It’s spooky, scary, destroyed. It’s a mess,” producer Theresa Kowall-Shipp said of the inside of the 65,000 square-foot house. Forestry magnate Peter Grant envisioned a sprawling lakefront mansion when his company purchased the land for $110,000 in 2004. Plans were made for a massive subterranean…