Last week, workers in Valdosta, Georgia, America, were struck to the core when hundreds of human teeth were unexpectedly found in a wall during a renovation of an old commercial building. At least a thousand canines, incisors, molars and premolars were walled up in the wall on the second floor of the structure.
Eyewitnesses were not only surprised, but also frightened by such a find. What if a maniac lives somewhere nearby, pulling out the teeth of his victims and secretly storing these trophies here? The workers immediately called the police. The law enforcement officers who arrived at the call took with them all the teeth they found and began an investigation. Fortunately, it limited itself to studying the history of the building. It turned out that a dentist worked here at the beginning of the last century. Apparently, it was this dentist who hid the extracted teeth of his patients in the wall. But why did he do that? Was he too lazy to dispose of medical waste, as many other doctors do? Or is it something else, more mysterious?
Soon, law enforcement officers determined that several more dentists lived in Georgia in the 1900s, who, as it later turned out, also collected teeth from their clients and hid them in very unusual places. For example, one dentist covered them in a ventilation shaft, while another filled an empty desk drawer with his teeth.
It is unlikely that in those days (or at any time) this could have been a common practice among dentists. The most amazing thing is that these zododer, as they were often called at the beginning of the last century, lived at a considerable distance from each other and were unlikely to suddenly know a friend to share their unusual "experience" of collecting teeth. In general, a little secret, which has remained a secret, since it is not possible to ask long-dead dentists what drove them in this strange gathering …