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Karl Horler made a rather raunchy discovery while clearing out a vacant house.

And while the man behind architectural salvage company, Frome Reclamation, has seen all manner of things in his career, this one takes some beating.

Karl was clearing out a house in Bristol when he came across a lifetime collection of porn magazines stuffed into a compartment under a double bed.

He said it looks like the owner had been stuffing the magazines - some of which were in pristine condition - into the secret compartment for years.

He said: "I think it was a single man that had passed away and this was his collection.

"Sometimes when you're doing jobs like this you have to clear a lot of rubbish out of the house. We went to move this bed and thought 'this is heavy'.

"It's a divan bed with a drawer at one end. The front was quite light but the other part was so heavy.

"I took the drawer out and the owner had obviously cut a hole behind it to shove the magazines in.

"We cut the bottom out and they all spilled out."

Inside the double bed were over a hundred magazines, with one even dating back to 1963.

(Image: Jason Bryant)

Most were from the late 70s and early 80s and some were even still in their wrappers.

Karl said: "Luckily enough the people that had the house weren't there."

Although this is a rather amusing find, Karl said that it isn't the only dirty discovery he's found.

"I've found many 'battery powered devices' in my time.

"One of the strangest things I found at a modern house in Frome were horses in the front room. They just seemed to keep them there."

You may think it would look slightly odd to try and dispose of hundreds of porn mags, but Karl has put some of them on Ebay and is hoping to find a buyer.

He discovered that some of them can sell from anywhere between £5 and £60.

He said: "I would have thought someone would just ask how much for the whole lot. I can imagine there's lots of private collectors out there."

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