Stunned builders discover a CROCODILE buried under a classroom floor at a Welsh primary school
- Remains of a crocodile have been found underneath a Welsh primary school
- Stunned builders carrying out renovation work in Rhondda made the discovery
- Mystery swirls around how the large predator ended up at the school
The remains of a crocodile have been found buried beneath the floorboards of a Welsh primary school.
Stunned builders carrying out renovation work in Rhondda, south Wales, stumbled across the decomposed carcass.
Mystery swirls around how the five-foot long predator ended up there, as its discovery proves decades-old rumours true one was once at the school.
The remains of a crocodile have been found buried beneath the floorboards of a Welsh primary school in Rhondda, south Wales. The five-foot long predator was found by stunned builders
The decomposed head of the crocodile with flecks of skin still attached. Decades-old rumours claim that the predator was first brought to the school by a local soldier at the end of World War One
Headmaster of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Bodringalt Dr Neil Pike said although he had heard rumours about the reptile – which may have been alive while at the school – they were always dismissed as ‘old myth’.
‘I’d heard a story that parents and school staff had buried a crocodile under the school some time between the two world wars,’ he said.
‘I thought it was an old myth and I didn’t take much notice until Thursday morning when I went to check the building work at the school.
‘Laid on the floor of the hall was the crocodile.
‘It is said to have been exhibited for some time before burial. Perhaps we will know all the history now.’
Urban legend has it that the beast was taken to the school in the 1920s by a World War One soldier, reports The Sun.
It was then exhibited for a time before being buried.
Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Bodringalt school in Rhondda, south Wales, where the crocodile was found. Former headteacher Marian Roberts said she had heard rumours about the reptile since she was a little girl and that people used to come to the school to ask about it
The school’s former headteacher, Marian Roberts, said her father had been talking about the crocodile since she was a little girl.
‘When I went there in 1961’, she said, ‘he asked me where the crocodile was.’
‘When I was the head teacher then, people who were coming to the school asked if he was still there – he obviously had an impact on people.’