Dental filling radio receiver

[maxkracht]

I'm listening to an Annie Jacobsen book about the US government investigating paranormal things post WW2. She mentioned a case of a machinist in the early '50s who started hearing voices. Put him in a faraday cage, the voices go away. Turns out he spent so much time using a silicon carbide grinding disc that a layer formed on one of his fillings, creating a diode junction like in a crystal radio. He was picking up WOR radio in New York. The voices went away after his filling was cleaned. I haven't been able to find more info online and the audiobook doesn't site sources like the print copy would. I always thought fillings picking up radio was an urban legend...

[Phil_S]

In the bad old days, fillings were done with silver amalgam. Radio was a remote but real possibility. Today, dentists use very high tech UV light cured resin to fill teeth -- no metal -- no radio. I'm an old guy. I think I had the last of my silver fillings replace 20-25 years ago. Given the time elapsed since they stopped using silver, it's easy to see why people might think radio fillings are a myth.

[Reeltarded]

There was a section of fence that buzzed on my great grandfather's cattle farm and sometimes it sounded like detuned aliens reading terrifying appliance manuals.

[stelligan]

Gilligan's Island radio. My wife has one and is always giving me earworms when she starts singing her broadcasts.....

[cbass]

It's not normal to hear radio in your head? I like mine. It plays both kinds of music.

[Sone Aura]

It depends upon a lot of factors but it happened. The late Luciel Ball claimed to receive radio stations through her dental work. If you lived back when amateur radio was more popular and there were lots of high-powered homemade RF amplifiers in use, so amalgam dental fillings, duct work, and even toasters could produce recognizable sounds and objectionable noises from poorly transmitted RF. Go find a CD/DVD ROM of old 73 Magazine, Wireless World, and Radio World or Radio & TV News Magazines. Just get lots of those old magazines on CD ROM! Some of the late 40s-1950s homebrew ham radios nuts were running ten, twelve or twenty 807 tubes (6L6GB tubes with a plate cap) upside down, suspended in aquariums filled with oil to cool the tubes. Imagine the fires that could cause. Go back to the 1920s, 30s, 40s and there were very few if any rules for radio. Eitel-Mc'Cullough (Eitel) would do lunatic crazy stuff like running a dipole through a custom made waterpipe, and then they'd transmit while water was being pumped through the pipe. By using an assortment of thermal calculations of how much the water was heated up as it passed through, they could very closely estimate how many watts their tubes could generate, while everyone in the whole valley got a nice unhealthy dose of non-ionizing radiation from all of those radio waves. It was far more common from the 1950s through the 1980s to mess with television reception than it was to transmit into dental work, but way back in day there were absolutely no rules or regulations. Amalgam was made from a mixture of silver, and believe it or not, mercury and sometimes even lead. With mercury the fumes are far more harmful. It's heavy and it's liquid so it tends to go through the GI tract like an express train. Lead poisoning is lead poisoning, but lead was in some of the amalgam alloys. If you have seen microwave wave guides and or worked with them, sure, why not? It's possible. That microwave RF bounces down a square tube of metal. Before comm satellites were in wide use American Tower and AT&T broadcast all kinds of crap from microwave station to microwave station. In the 1990s you could buy those old defunct American Tower sights. Almost all of the FCC violations I read about now are cell phone jammers in workplaces, to keep their employees from dicking around on smartphones all day. 50-60-70 years ago, lots of ham radio operators' equipment was messing with broadcast TV and commercial radio and TV broadcast stations were very often in violation too. With the old questionable metal alloy fillings and poorly broadcast RF it's 100% possible that some people received RF on their dental work. Go play with some crystal radio sets and you can see why. Galena is the ore they get lead from and it's the original crystal in crystal radio receivers.

[TUBEDUDE]

Here's the story of how Lucille ball found Japanese spies with her filling radio.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/entertai ... -fillings/

[martin manning]

Maybe... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lucil ... ngs-spies/

[Reeltarded]

Maybe... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lucil ... ngs-spies/

Glad you showed up. Thinking about you the last couple days. Hope all is well.

[jrdamien]

Here's the story of how Lucille ball found Japanese spies with her filling radio.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/entertai ... -fillings/

She went from a dentist to meeting the President of the United States. If that doesn't prove that luck exists, I don't know what does