What would be your reaction if you find a reptile in your school, college or workplace? Obviously, you will be shocked and scared at the same time.

The same incident happened when the workers discovered a crocodile underneath the floorboards of a school in Rhondda.

Builders were undertaking renovations at Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Bodringallt when they saw the decomposing body of the five-foot-long predator. They were baffled to see the crocodile and the thought of reaching it there confused them more.

Headteacher, Dr Neil Pike, said that they were shocked to find the reptile and have hopes that the whole truth will come out.

He said: “I’d heard a story that parents and school staff had buried a crocodile under the school sometime between the two world wars.”

“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.”

The former head of school, Marian Roberts thinks that the reptile was in fact a caiman, which belongs to the same family as crocs and alligators. She said that the topic was discussed at the school for as long as she could remember.

“My dad had been talking about this crocodile since I was a little girl.

“When I went there in 1961, he asked me where the crocodile was.

“When I was the headteacher then, people who were coming to the school asked if he was still there – he obviously had an impact on people.”

The caiman has been exhumed and the school is thinking to do a research project into the history of the animal.

Dr. Pike said: “Bury it again or display it? We’ll see.”