The woman with 'Broadcaster’s Teeth'.

Among all the bizarre maladies which may afflict a human being, the prize for weird comedy must surely be awarded to the broadcaster’s teeth possessed by a housewife of Daytona Beach, Florida.

The lady in question agreed to talk to reporters only if her name was withheld; the phenomenon was an acute embarrassment. For the purpose of the price we will call her Mrs Jones(not real name)– but should incredulous readers doubt the account, they may confirm it by consulting the Ottawa Journal of 9 April 1970.

Mrs Jones 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 Jones sought medical advice.

Electronics experts declared that the music was being played by someone using a wireless phonograph to send signals form 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 a receiving system – Mrs Jones’ 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’ happened.

The exhausted Mrs Jones 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 offered no longer-term solution. Finally, Mrs Jones became desperate. One Wednesday in April she had all her fillings but one replaced by plastic. The remaining metal filling was left because it involved a root and might have to be pulled.

The music stopped for three days," I thought I was free and was ready to throw a party", she said.

And then her teeth turned up again. Rambling Rose, Rambling Rose… The music was much weaker than before, but still present, humming away in the last metallic molar.

The newspaper account ends there, with reporter speculating that so far as the lone tooth was concerned, Mrs. Jones 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. Jones forgive him and had no hard fillings.