Horrified plumber makes disturbing discovery under customer's bathroom floor

22 January 2024 , 19:45

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Horrified plumber makes disturbing discovery under customer's bathroom floor

A plumber has spoken of the shocking moment he found over 20 mysterious 'bones' and teeth underneath a bathroom floor.

Jonathan Betts, from Plymouth, Devon, was called out to a bathroom re-model in an old cottage - but made a rather unpleasant discovery when he removed the flooring.

Underneath, he found dozens of what appeared to be bones and teeth. Since sharing the footage of the unsettling incident on TikTok, his post has gone viral with over 1.3 million views - and viewers have debated whether the remains belonged to a human or animal.

The plumber believes they are from a pig, and thankfully not human in origin. Jonathan, who made the grim find on January 2, told Need to Know UK: "As you can imagine I started to stress out, especially when I found a jaw bone with teeth!

Jonathan Betts, a plumber, found a pile of bones under a client's bathroom floor during a refit (SWNS)

"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."

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In the TikTok clip, Jonathan shows the camera the bones he has already found - and says he is "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. Jonathan added: "Can anyone tell me if this is an animal? I'm hoping it's a dog."

Users on social media were quick to respond with their own outlandish theories, as one joked: "That's the last bathroom fitter. Make sure your grouting is up to scratch kid."

One of the bones appeared to be a jaw (Release date – January 19 2024. SWNS)

Someone else said: "Even if it's an animal I'd be traumatised for life", while another wrote: "A dog, the back teeth are too sharp to be a human."

Jonathan shared that he knew had a tough job ahead when he removed the floor covering on the bathroom and found the sub-flooring 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.

Mr Betts believes the bones belonged to a pig, and are not human in origin (Release date – January 19 2024. SWNS)

His TikTok post has gone viral with over 1.3 million views (Release date – January 19 2024. SWNS)

"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."

Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas