Buying a house is stressful enough, but imagine coming home one day to find out someone else has moved in—and they have the paperwork to prove it. That’s exactly what happened to a British reverend who left his home for a while, only to return and discover a total stranger had sold it out from under him. It’s like a real estate horror movie, but with more paperwork and fewer chainsaws. After a long, bizarre legal battle, he’s finally got his house back, but not before one of the wildest cases of home theft in history played out.

 

Huge update in case of man who walked into house he’d owned for 30 years to find someone else living there