Man Secretly Builds Huge Castle Behind Bales

That’s a lot of hay.

I can’t believe I worried about a permit for a 13×15 cabin in heavy forest.

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk Over the course of two years, he managed to secretly – and unlawfully – build the imposing mock Tudor structure in one of his fields, shielded behind a 40ft stack of hay bales covered by a huge tarpaulins. Once it was finished, he and his family moved in and lived there for four years before finally revealing the development – complete with battlements and cannons – in August 2006.