Workers find 1000 human teeth inside building wall in US

Not the teeth found in the wall. Photo / Getty Images

Workers doing demolition work on a building in Georgia, US, knocked down a wall only to have thousands of human teeth fall on them.

The Valdosta Daily Times reported on the creepy find, saying the workers broke open the wall and at least 1000 human teeth came out.

The building, it turns out, was home to a dentistry office in the early 1900s, although that does not fully explain the discovery.

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The discovery was made early this week as workers were readying a new commercial site in downtown Valdosta.

The wall was located on the second floor of the building.

A drug store located on the first floor of the building in the early 1900s has also been found to have provided tooth extraction services.

Town officials are now trying to figure out why the hundreds of human teeth ended up inside the building wall.

A picture of the teeth found in the second floor wall of the Converse Building in downtown Valdosta.

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A photo of the pile of teeth posted to Facebook later went viral, as people could not believe the true tale had happened, especially so close to Halloween.