The Magical Mystery Tooth. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

So we don't often do this, but we're kind of picking up where we left off from the last episode at the end of

2011. In fact, Saturday, November 7, 2011, something very special was put up for auction at a place called the Omega Auction House, a UK-based music and cultural memorabilia auction

company known for selling things like original demo tapes from the Smiths, David Bowie, or a 13-year-old Ed Sheeran, to things like an original Walkman, or an LP.

This item is not those things, but it is both rare and mundane, original and pretty strange.

It's not a riddle, I promise you, it is a tooth. John Lennon's tooth, which was put up for auction at a staggeringly high price, and bought for even higher.

So where did this tooth even come from? Well, technically it was a back muller from John Lennon's mouth, obviously, but from there it went to Lennon's former housekeeper, a woman by the name of Dot Jarlett, that worked for Lennon at his Kenwood home in Wabridge Surrey.

Dot and John Lennon developed a pretty warm relationship, which involved a lot of gift giving and was apparently good enough to share your tooth with, which is pretty close, I think.

According to Jarrett's son, Barry, gave Dot the tooth to dispose of sometime between 1964 and 1968, but then he suggested that she keep the tooth to give to her daughter, who was a big Beatles fan.

Said Barry Jarlett, quote, she was very close with John, and one day whilst chatting in the kitchen, John gave my mother the tooth.

He had been to the dentist to have it removed that day, and suggested giving it to my sister as a souvenir, as she was a huge Beatles fan.

It has been in the family ever since. Yes, Dot eventually gave the tooth to her daughter, who kept it for the past 40 years at her home in Canada.

Barry Jarlett said Lennon gave their family many gifts over the years, including a leather wallet and a pearl necklace, Lennon gave Dot when he returned from the Beatles tour of Japan.

Now, in 2011, Dot was 90, and the Jarlett family thought it might be a good time to finally sell the tooth, rather than risk it getting lost or worse, maybe even forgotten.

Lennon's molar was too fragile to be DNA tested, but Omega Auction House took Jarlett's word that it was the real deal.

She was at the time 90, and she had gotten some serious time in with Lennon, and of course the tooth.

The Omega Auction House listed the item, which at the time was expected to sell for 16,000 pounds, but guess what?

It sold for way more, about 19,000 pounds, which was at the time equivalent to over $31,000.

So who was the new lucky owner of John Lennon's tooth? A Canadian dentist named Michael Zuck, who I hope displays it proudly in his office.

Maybe dental memorabilia can be a new thing? We'll find out after the break.

Time for Diet Coke, right? Yes, yes, yes!

I really needed that.

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