Description: In its dormant form, the Dentala resembles a small white pearl with tiny spider legs. In its active form, the Dentala expands into a concave cylinder and grows multiple sets of razor sharp teeth (see image). Dormant Dentala can be found in hollowed shells of sea and lake animals, such as oysters and clams, while active Dentala make their nests within the vaginas of human women.
Dentala produce 2 strong pheromones within a radius of maybe 5 to 10 feet, capable of greatly affecting human behaviour. The pheromone produced when dormant (PhD) causes forgetfulness and slight numbness in the body while the pheromone produced when active (PhA) has strong aphrodisiac properties.
Dentala are born from clusters of egg sacks at the bottom of the sea. When fully developed, the eggs explode and will launch the Dentala above the surface of the water. Dentala must then swim for dry land but lucky for us, many drown in the waves.
Dentala hide themselves inside empty shells of clams or oysters. Having excessive grooming habits, Dentala will polish their shells with their spider-like legs until they shine in order to attract unsuspecting Normans. When a Norman opens the clam, they will find a beautiful “pearl” which they will often put into their bag or pocket. Dentala then produce PhD, causing Normans to forget about the pearl while numbing their bodies. While numb and forgetful, the Dentala uncoils its spider legs and makes its way towards a woman to enter her vagina. If no women are present, it will choose the most feminine looking man and enter his anus.
Upon entering the vagina (or anus), the Dentala will proceed to expand concavely thereby forming a cylinder with their teeth pointing away from the walls of the vagina. This procedure is called “nesting.” Upon nesting, the Dentala will produce pheromones that will cause the host, and those around them to, feel a strong desire to mate. Apparently, pheromones produced by a Dentala are so strong, that if it nests in the anus of a one hundred percent straight human male, he will change completely, exhibiting extreme homoerotic behaviour and even have sex with other males.
If the host seduces another human, teeth will at some point emerge from the Dentala and pierce the penis during penetration. Such wounds are often fatal and Normans who have suffered from the bite of a VD often die from their injuries. The unlucky ones are rescued and saved but will often suffer health consequences and devastating psychological effects.
After an unknown period of time, the Dentala will eventually take full control of a woman's body, implant it's eggs all over her skin and force her to walk into the sea where both Dentala and victim will drown. The victim's body will become unusually heavy and sink until she reaches the ocean floor where her shambling undead corpse will be used as sustenance to grow new Dentala eggs.
Background: Dentala were known to the Society for quite a while, being discovered at the tail end of the 60s by the Belching Elks who organized a "hunting party" to hunt Aberrants in Jamaica. They were an outfit comprised of a few 20-somethings who focused less on hunting and more on the party. Tragedy struck when one of their members was mauled by a Dentala. With quick thinking, the other members managed to stop the blood lost by cauterizing the wound with a BBQ poker.
The Elks later performed a complete sweep investigation of the entire Caribbean, from Jamaica to Barbados. Diving underwater, they found the corpses of women slowly walking on the ocean floor, each covered head to toe in Dentala egg clusters. The Elks exterminated every cluster they could find but the ocean's a big place and there's still a lot down there.
At the time, we thought Dentala were a Caribbean thing, something far away that we didn't have to worry about. That all changed when Barry from the Rapid Otters went pearl diving and stumbled upon a group of them. Shambling corpses covered with eggs, somehow moving on the sea floor, just 20 feet off the coast of a public beach. Since then, regular Dentala attacks have been reported all over the East and West coasts, notably from national parks and other heavily forested areas in California, Washington State, Florida and Maine.
Location and Population: Dentala live near bodies of fresh water and sea water with a close proximity to dense forests. These forests provide much needed shade for the heat-sensitive Dentala and most Dentala shells are found under the shade of a tree. Dentala shells are scavenged from dead oysters or clams. While they are born in the sea, Dentala live most of their lives on land.
Many hot years and dwindling forests have made Dentala inactive for quite a while but ironically, efforts made to conserve forests by The Society and other groups have led to a resurgence in reported Dentala attacks.
Dentala eggs can be found in clusters attached to pale, decomposing women. While these women usually walk the depths of the ocean floor, where no natural light can reach, they will venture into shallow water when the eggs are ready to hatch.
Hunting or Procurement Methods: In order to remove the Dentala from the vagina, Warders are instructed to flood the nest with water or any non-toxic liquid. This will cause the Dentala to make weird gargling sounds before expelling itself from the victim's vagina so that it can breathe air. At this point, the Dentala will be too sluggish and bloated to move and should be killed with a long-distance weapon, like a gun or a spear, before it reverts back to its dormant form and flees into the wild. Dentala will puff out into a ball of spiked teeth upon death then quickly decompose. Do not step on or stab a bloated Dentala with a knife unless you want a foot or hand filled with teeth.
DO NOT expose active Dentala to extreme heat or place the victim in a sauna or hot tub. While Dentala are sensitive to heat, they become violent and loud in their death throws, often goring the victim while screaming like a banshee.
To exterminate the eggs clusters, dive down to the ocean floor and look for human figures covered in red or pink blobs. Just be careful you don't meet any other aberrations. The same rules of long-distance range weapons apply. Be careful with tethered harpoons as Dentala teeth will cut the ropes.
Think you got them all? Dentala are difficult to exterminate completely due to their excellent ability to camouflage themselves among regular oysters and clams. It just takes one Dentala to find a woman and start the nesting process all over again.
Encounter Records (Warning Graphic):
Excerpt taken from a report by Elk-1 of the Belching Elks who examined an underwater Dentala cave in Jamaica.
It was a woman, legs bolted to the sea floor, completely covered in eggs. Each egg was the size of a fingernail, thousands of them stuck together inside massive webbed egg sacks that seemed to expand and contract like beating hearts. The eggs reddish and semitransparent, looked like blood cells and stuck to each other like glue. The more mature eggs were like pinkish baseballs and you could see five or six white pearls inside, coiling and uncoiling their legs. Elk-2 must have still been angry about Elk-6 being attacked because she took out her hunting knife and slashed those egg sacks in a rage. Then the five of us heard a hiss like air leaking. Those teeth spiders shot out like a shotgun and swarmed Elk-2, covering her head to toe. Then, one of them exploded into a ball of teeth and cut her diving cord and Elk-2 fell to the bottom of the sea. The four of us couldn't do anything for her, we swam for our lives. The next time we went back down there, armed and fully prepared, we met Elk-2 a shambling ghoul, covered in Dentala eggs. We couldn't hear her underwater but I saw her mouth move and I know she spoke to me. Nobody was willing to do it, so it fell onto me as the leader to put her down.
The following is a speech-to-text retelling from my nephew's friend, Norman-1. He was in a state of mental shock and couldn't speak. Nicely asking him for details made it even worse as Norman-1 became rigid and his movements more and more tense. Eventually he got to the point where he was unable to move at all. We lost our patience and got that crazy Doc Mantis to hypnotize him. It worked, sort of. He acted out the entire Dentala attack as a one-man-show. Creepy, I know. For the sake of accuracy, the story has been kept in its raw form with minimal edits. For the sake of privacy of the victims both living and deceased, my nephew's friend is referred to as Norman-1 while my nephew is Norman-2.
Norman-1: I’ve been going through such a dry spell bro.
Norman-2: We’re at the beach dude. Where are all the chicks? Fucking offseason man.
Norman-1: Yo check this out bro, look at that shiny clam.
Norman-2: Whatever dude.
Norman-1: Yo bro, there’s a fucking pearl in this clam.
Norman-2: For real?
Norman-1: For real. How much you think it’s worth bro?
Norman-2: I dunno dude. Gotta be worth a fortune. Wait, where did the pearl go?
Norman-1: What do you mean bro, I was holding it right in my …
Norman-2: I can’t believe you dropped the pearl dude. That was your ticket to the big time. You could have fucked so many chicks dude.
Norman-1: Don’t just stand there bro, help me look for it in the sand.
Norman-2: I can’t take it anymore dude. I don’t know how I’ve been so blind all my life when you were right here beside me bro. I’m done chasing chicks bro. I love you bro.
Norman-1: Shit bro, what the fuck do I say?
Norman-2: I fucking love you dude. I want you to fuck me dude.
Norman-1: As long as the balls don’t touch bro.
At this point Norman-1, still hypnotized and acting as Norman-2, begins rapidly thrusting his hips into the air, no doubt re-enacting the copulation they had that day on the beach. I turn away in disgust, then an unholy scream turns me back. Norman-1 is rolling on the floor, gushing tears from his eyes. He gets back up and talks to thin air, then lies back down and talks to himself. I turn towards Mantis and demand an explanation.
Mantis: There is no Dentala attacking him here, but in his hypnotized state, he is reliving that day in the past. Since his friend his dead, he must play both roles. For him this is cathartic.
Mantis is insane and I regret asking for his help. I want to leave the room and have no further part in this atrocity. Yet I cannot turn my eyes away as Norman-1 continues his one-man-show.
Norman-1: Dude what the fuck? My dick.
Norman-2: What’s wrong bro? Holy shit my ass is bleeding bro.
Norman-1: Dude, your ass has teeth man.
Norman-2: I’m so sorry bro, I never knew my ass had teeth.
Norman-1: I think I’m going to die dude. Fuck I don’t think I’ll make it.
Norman-2: What the fuck do I do bro? What the fuck do I do?
Norman-1: Listen to me right now dude. I’m going to die soon. My uncle, he deals with this weird shit. He's a warder or warden or something. You promise you go see him bro.
Norman-2: I promise bro.
Norman-1: You fucking promise?!
Norman-2: I fucking promise bro. Bro? No bro why? Why God? Why did you take bro? He’s gone.
Norman-1 then collapses on the floor. Mantis rushes to revive him. After some CPR, Norman-1 coughs and opens his eyes. Doc's report shows he is still mute but no longer catatonic.
Experimentation Log:
They said I'm crazy to do this. Just kill them all they said. Well I did, all the Dentala are dead and I am performing my dissection on their corpses. Besides, this is only a blue level threat and the more knowledge we can gain about the anatomy of the paranormal, the more people we can protect.
Experimentation Results: Dissection of Dentala have uncovered many biological impossibilities. Despite having teeth, Dentala possess no digestive track and do not need food or water to survive. Though Dentala, possess no lungs nor gills or respiratory system of any sort, they can, however, die from drowning and need to breathe air. There are many creatures who are born in the water but live their adult lives on land but it is unprecedented for a creature to grow underwater and then be forced to swim to land or drown. Are Dentala the opposite of certain species of turtle who are born on land and must crawl their way to the sea?
Examiner’s Afterword: It eats but has no digestive system and it needs to breathe but it has no respiratory system. I got a theory about those Teeth Spiders, instead of them being animals as we originally thought, what if the spiders are a reaction to our fear. What if our fear is what creates them and pulls them out from whatever dimension? Possibly Metaph but will remain classified as Cryptid for now.
During the dissection I heard the sound of air whooshing through pipes that I ignored but when I went to bed last night I soon began to hear whispers.
Too much. Too much. Men are too much.
Could Mother Earth have made these monsters to cull overpopulated humans or is this an attack on the male gender? Even after performing a rectal cavity search and finding no Dentala, I still hear those whispers in my head. Tomorrow, I'm driving my way down to the DCC to get a head check from Dr. Elk. Hopefully I don't I have one in my brain.
Additional Notes: There exist a rarer subspecies of dark grey Dentala who specifically target the Anus (as oppose to accidentally like the Vagina Dentala) known as Anal Dentala. While Anal Dentala possess many of the same qualities as their vaginal cousins, there are important key differences. Instead of expanding into a concave cylinder, they expand into a convex rod. Victims possessed by Anal Dentala suffer from arrogance, a lack of desire to procreate and have difficulty relaxing or having fun.