A plumber was left shocked after he came across over 20 ‘bones’ and teeth while on a job.
Jonathan Betts, from Plymouth, Devon, was called out to a bathroom re-model in an old cottage – but made the rather unpleasant find after he removed the flooring.
Underneath, he found dozens of what appeared to be bones and teeth.
Sharing the shocking footage to TikTok, the post has gone viral with over 1.3 million views, where viewers debated whether the remains belonged to a human or animal.
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“As you can imagine I started to stress out, especially when I found a jawbone with teeth!” Jonathan, who made the grim find last Tuesday, (2 January), told What’s The Jam.
“In the back of my mind, I knew it was an animal as the teeth didn’t look like ours.
“I found 20 or so bones and later I found another jaw and saw the front long tooth, after a quick Google search, and to my pure joy, I discovered the bones to be from a pig.”
In the TikTok, Jonathan shows the camera the bones he has already found.
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He says: “So I’m digging up here, and I’m finding bits thinking I’m probably digging up a dead cat in this little trench that I’m doing.”
He then takes the camera to another end of the floor and picks up a rotten jaw with a couple of teeth still attached.
He added: “Can anyone tell me if this is an animal or? I’m hoping it’s a dog.”
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User Dan joked: “That’s the last bathroom fitter. Make sure your grouting is up to scratch kid.”
Someone else said: “Even if it’s animal I’d be traumatised for life.”
Cullen wrote: “A dog, the back teeth are too sharp to be a human.”
“That’s human,” commented one user.
“No way, scary stuff,” said Bev.
“Yeah, I’m calling the police straight away,” added Ilidio.
Jonathan first spotted something amiss when he removed the toilet and floor covering and found it in a terrible state.
He said: “I found that the sub-flooring below was massively rotten and discovered the joists had just been fitted onto the soil.
“I made the customers aware, who were on holiday at the time, and said that I would need to dig out the soil to try and find some solid ground to concrete in an ore-formed lintel.
“This was in an old, old cottage in Plymouth, so I had to dig deep.
“I don’t usually work weekends, but this time I did to push the job on, and that’s when I started to find bones.”
Thankfully, they appear to belong to an animal.
