Among all the bizarre maladies which may afflict a human being. the prize for weird comedy must surely be awarded the Musical teeth possessed by a housewife of Daytona Beach, Florida.
The lady in question agreed to talk to reports only if her name was withheld; according to Mrs X the phenomenon was an acute embarrassment. For the purpose of this steemit we will call her Mrs X. At the end of the post you will find the answer, fact or fiction let's find out!
Mrs X began to receive musical radio signals through her teeth on the night of 16 March 1970. Whenever she opened her mouth, her teeth transmitted songs which included A Long Way to Tipperary and Rambling Rose.
Understandably distressed, Mrs X sought medical advice. Electronics experts declared that the music was being played by someone using a wireless phonograph to send signals from one part of his house to another. A dentist explained why her teeth were picking up the signals. It appeared that two metals such as gold and amalgam fillings could combine with the acid in human saliva to set up receiving system in Mrs X's mouth.
The housewife placed an advertisement in a local newspaper urging that whoever had been playing the songs should identify himself. A flood of calls ensued, but nothing concrete'.
The exhausted Mrs X then moved out of her neighborhood and took to sleeping in a motel, out of range of the wireless enthusiast, to get some peace.
But this ofered no long term solution. Finally, Mrs X became desperate. One Wednesday in April she had all her fillings but one replaced by an alternative. The remaining metal filling was left because it involved a root and might have to be pulled.
The music stopped for three day's. 'I thought I was free and was ready to throw a party,'she said. And then her teeth tuned up again! The music was much weaker than before, but still present, humming away in the last metallic molar.
The newspaper account ends here, with the reporter speculating that so far as the tooth was concerned, Mrs X 'might yet be driven to extraction'. I do not know whether the maverick filling was silenced once and for all, or whether the wireless enthusiast was ever located. In fairness, he was clearly an unwitting persecutor. If the couple did meet, we can only hope that Mrs X forgave him and had no hard fillings.^^
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FACT: This is in fact a true story and may be confirmed by consulting the Ottawa Journal of 9 April 1970.
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Very interesting. I remember hearing about this happening, but never checked into it. Gilligan's Island had an episode where one of them (Gilligan probably) picked up signals with his teeth.
I remember studying electronics in grade school (do they do that today?) and the teacher had a radio connected to a piece of wood. If you held the wood between your teeth, you could hear the signal. Otherwise you couldn't hear anything. Pretty cool.
@anotherjoe I did quite a bit of research on the matter and found it absolutely fascinating! The sound is apparently generated in the teeth and then transferred via the jaw bone directly to the ear. In most cases only the individual can here it. Makes you wonder about people who here voices..... maybe they have fillings hahahaha!
Great story, great format.
I was sure it was true before the end though, good luck getting one past us.
I am working on it! ^^