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Plumber Jonathan David Betts discovers bones under the floor of a bathroom during routine work.
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A plumber couldn't believe his eyes while he was working.
Completely irritated, he shows his discovery in a video and asks for advice.
Plymouth - As a plumber you are faced with a wide variety of challenges in houses in your everyday life.
This should also apply to Jonathan David Betts.
He now made a particularly gruesome discovery on a construction site, as he shows in a video on Tiktok.
Scary discovery in the bathroom: Plumber digs up bones in the ground
Betts was busy renovating a bathroom and breaking up the floor, he said in the clip.
He came across bones completely unexpectedly.
Various parts can be seen in the shot, even a piece of jawbone with teeth.
At first, Betts suspected that they could be from humans - such as a child.
But visibly unsure after the shocking discovery, he finally asked in the video: “Can anyone tell if this is an animal?”
The Tiktok community was puzzled.
The comments say something like: "100 percent animal, I think pig." Another writes that he is "very sure that these are human remains." "Just report it to the archaeologists, they will take care of the rest of it “Dig up the ditch for you,” joked another user.
Another Tiktok user reported a similar find in her house.
It later turned out that her house was once used as a mortuary.
Workers recently found bone remains during canal work in Lower Saxony.
“Report it to the archaeologists”: Plumber discovers bone remains in bathroom
In another video, Betts shows all the finds from the bathroom on a table, and broken glass and shards of ceramic can also be seen.
According to the British news agency
SWNS,
he found over 20 bones.
The house is over 200 years old, so the bones could be of a similar age.
“As you can imagine, I was pretty stressed, especially when I found a jawbone with teeth on it,” Betts told
SWNS
.
But upon closer inspection, he was sure "that it was an animal because the teeth didn't look like ours."
In a third Tiktok video, the craftsman enlightened the curious community.
It was actually the jaw of a pig, as the large canine teeth and a Google search revealed.
Therefore, the other bones could also come from the animal and not from a human.
Bone remains are said to be from pigs
The agricultural information center Proplanta informs that pigs have a total of 44 teeth.
Among other things, they have constantly growing canine teeth.
The set of teeth that Betts found in the bathroom was similar.
“This means that my work can continue,” he writes on Tiktok.
According to Betts, the homeowners also eventually confirmed that there used to be a pig farm across the street from the house.
“The bones were put back under the ground when we discovered that people used to bury them to ward off evil spirits,” Betts told
SWNS
.
The plumber has never come across such a find in his career.
“I’ve been in the industry for over 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said.
A grandson also made an unexpected discovery in his grandfather's estate.
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