A plumber was left in a panic after finding over 20 bones underneath floorboards - when fixing a bathroom.<br /><br />Jonathan Betts, 36, made the sinister discovery underneath a cottage that is over 200 years old.<br /><br />He made a TikTok highlighting his terrifying find, which has already gained over 1.3 million views.<br /><br />Luckily the bones turned out to be from - a pig.<br /><br />He joked: "Let’s just say it's not every day you’re at work and find a pile of bones under a bathroom floor.<br /><br />"I have been in the industry for over 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like it before."<br /><br />On January 2, Jonathan, who runs JB Plumbing in Plymouth, Devon, began a routine job of fixing a bathroom.<br /><br />He said: "After I removed the toilet and floor covering I found that sub flooring below was massively rotten and discovered the joists had just been fitted onto soil. <br /><br />"I made the customers aware, who have been on holiday, that I will need to dig out the soil to try and find some solid ground to concrete in a ore formed lintel."<br /><br />He explained the work was being completed in an "old old cottage" at least 200 years old - so he had to "dig deep".<br /><br />Jonathan said: "I let the customer know I don't usually work weekends but I will to push the job on, and that's when I started to find bones. <br /><br />"As you can imagine I started to stress out, especially when I found a jaw bone with teeth!"<br /><br />"In the back of my mind I knew it was an animal as the teeth didn't look like ours but I was still sketching out as I really did not want this job to be shut down!".<br /><br />After discovering another 20 bones alongside bottles and marble, he then discovered a second part of the jawbone.<br /><br />Having spotted the long front tooth, as well as conducting a Google search with consultation from a some fellow tradies, Jonathan admits "to his pure joy" - the bones were from the remains of a pig, not a human.<br /><br />Jonathan said he followed the customer's wishes, explaining the bones were placed back where he found them.<br /><br />He added: "The bones have placed back under the floor when we found out that back in the day people buried them to ward off bad spirits."<br /><br />"After speaking with the owners of the home, they informed me that the house opposite used to be a pig farm and they think the barn attached to their property was in fact a slaughterhouse."
