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One of the suspicious notes, in which the unidentified author begs forgiveness for what he or she is about to do, reads: “It’s time to check out of this unfoefilled life of sorrower and pain.”

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“Dear God,” reads another, in what appears to be the same penmanship. “As of next week everything will fall apart for us. We owe mortgage company, house taxes, water bill, gas bill, hydro bill, TV bill… Our outside looks like crap, unkept lawn, over grown plants, bricks on wall cracking, weed growing through concert. The upstairs bathroom electricity is off, the back bathroom shower has problems and we have No Money to fix or Pay anyone.”

The note is then decorated with frown faces and a distressed looking stick figure.

It appears to refer to multiple people in this dire financial situation.

The National Post has no knowledge of the letters’ authorship, and obtained images of them from a man who lives near the exploded home and requested to remain anonymous.

A phone number associated with the address of the house on Hickory Drive, in the name of “F Nadler,” leads to a voicemail in the names of “Bob and Diane.”

Some early news reports said the house appeared vacant. Others, based on interviews with neighbours, suggested a middle-age couple with no children lived there.

Ontario property records list the house as previously owned by Frank Nadler, then transferred to Robert Walter Nadler in 2012.

Records from 2013 seem to show two mortgages, taken out with Capital Direct Lending and National Holdings.