Hearing the opening sound, John Riddle entered his bathroom and found an iguana in the closet, staring at him with the same frightened expression as his own.

“I looked down and saw this reptile looking at me in fear,” the 58-year-old told local Florida media.

His attempt to capture her by force was not successful, so Riddle enlisted … with his bare hands and “wrestled” with a frightened reptile – the iguana won this second round as well.

Going to the toilet turned into a nightmare after a man found a large hissing iguana in his toilet! 🚽🦎 https://t.co/WotrKTqeAO pic.twitter.com/X0ohptUiEb

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) May 24, 2023

Finally the iguana came out of the water on her own, so the 58-year-old man managed to kick her out of the house. He suggests that the reptile “swimmed into the toilet through the drain” or sneaked in through the door while he was walking his dogs.

“I’m used to iguanas, but I’m not used to seeing them in my closet,” Riddle said, adding that in the 21 years he’s lived in this particular home, nothing like this has ever happened to him before.

‘I went into my bathroom and found Godzilla in the closet’: Angry iguana invades Florida man’s home https://t.co/nalWwGw1yK pic.twitter.com/EurPS3sQtE

— Daily Mail UK (@DailyMailUK) May 21, 2023

“The voracious little Godzillas are good swimmers and can hold their breath for long periods of time before diving out of narrow sewer pipes into the toilet,” explains the local Tampa Bay Times.

Iguanas in toilets may seem like an urban legend to some, like alligators in the sewers of New York, but in Florida they are a real problem, and many residents report such incidents from time to time.

Source: Guardian