Carter Roy

They have no idea what's making them glamorous is also killing them.

By 1920, the glow starts to fade and something else takes its place.

Dentists in Orange, New Jersey are suddenly flooded with patients, young women mostly, loose teeth, painful jaws, infections that won't heal, tooth extractions that never close up.

one by one the ghost girls are getting sick one of them is molly magia she's 24 years old one of seven sisters four of them worked at the factory together molly is good at her job she's been painting dials for a few years and is a top earner

In 1921, she visits her dentist with a toothache.

He pulls the tooth.

Routine procedure.

But then the next tooth starts hurting.

And the next.

Eventually, her teeth start falling out on their own.

Instead of healing, painful ulcers bloom in the empty sockets.

The infection spreads to her jaw.

One day, her dentist gently prods what remains of Molly's jawbone.

To his horror, it breaks apart in his fingers.

He removes it, not through surgery, but simply by lifting it out of her mouth.

On September 12th, 1922, Molly Mejia bleeds to death from a massive hemorrhage.

She's 24 years old.

Her death certificate lists the cause as syphilis.

Now, Molly isn't an isolated case.

She's just the first.