The Ledge's Jar: A Century-Long Tooth, A Village's Quiet Crime
The Ledge's Jar: A Century-Long Tooth, A Village's Quiet CrimeDanger hides in ordinary jars: a sealed Mason jar pulled from a frozen berm held a child’s molar, a cornhusk coil, a white button and a folded card naming a local woman - and the town had been burying these objects, in secret, for 112 years. Who began the practice at the Ledge, and why did an entire township agree to call a death "illness" and keep quiet?In this episode, we tell how a county road-grader operator unearthed an object that reopened a century-old local custom and review the scattered records that trace the ritual back…
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