The American Town Banning Cell Phones and Wi-Fi
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Green Bank, West Virginia hosts the world's largest radio telescope to search for aliens. It's also a sanctuary for people who believe electromagnetic fields are harmful.
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Executive Producer: Laura Ling
Producer: Paige Keipper (Hansen)
Cinematographer: Matthew Piniol, Spencer Snider
Editor: Jordan Dertinger
It was incredible (and a little scary) to be at the top of the Green Bank Telescope. The dish is the size of two football fields. It was recently announced that the Green Bank scope will be part of the world's largest search for extraterrestrial life, scanning 20 times more of the sky than any other project. --Laura Ling
Seeker Stories I grew up in and still live in a county neighboring Greenbank, near the Sugar Grove Naval Radio Station (which was also protected by the NRQZ). We don't have any cell service here either, but we are allowed wifi devices. I love it here, because the lack of "amenities" keeps the population low (it takes over an hour to get to the nearest WalMart). There aren't many places like this left, where the unique old Appalachian culture is truly preserved. The Sugar Grove Naval Radio Station is shutting down, and there has been talk about shutting down the NRAO in Greenbank as well. If that happens, we'll get cell towers, and more folk will retire here from the city (mostly DC). They fight to have the amenities of the city brought here (despite that being what they move here to get away from; I suppose some folk think that they can have their cake and eat it, too). If that happens, the culture that is preserved here will be damaged. So I hope that the NRAO stays in operation far into the future, and the cell towers stay far away.
Anyway, cool video. Thanks! :)
+Seeker Stories Quite zone... except for the MASSIVE ANTENNAS that blast and listen to signals across the universe. I would be interested to know if you asked the them about the surrounding RF levels produced by the dishes. Wonderful production and editing by the way. Very professional.
That is a stupid reason to ban you for the electronics you depend on if there's no microwave you'll have to eat raw food there gross
+Joshua B you can't hear radio telescopes
You can't hear microwaves either... I am talking about RF levels as measured by a device. The quite zone does not mean quite to the human ears... You know that right? ;-)
I wish I lived in a town like that. Everyone is always on their cellphones nowadays. It would be nice to get away from it all. Technology irritates me!
I wanna go visit that place. I think we should have more places like that cause it will help with the technology addiction that is occuring in other places. And people can actually talk to each other the more proper way! Which is face-to-face.
Aren't those mics wireless? hahaha
lordskimmer Actually, our team had to use special equipment including hard-wired microphones as a precaution against harming the telescope!
Oh well that's a little less comedic
lordskimmer get rekt
q 're err q
+lordskimmer Plus all those electronic devices in the car, CB and two way FM radios.
So Wi-Fi and Cellular Signal makes them sick while the live next to a big ass satellite telescope, have lamps in their homes and live in a magnetic field. I've never seen a better example of placebo.
Moyukh Shabon Exactly. Yet she says we're uneducated. Ha!
Moyukh Shabon The telescope receives signals, not transmits.
Yes, finally, someone with sense
Moyukh Shabon These nutjobs. They keep pulling shit out their asses.
Alplexle (Alex Lee) "shit" out of "asses" UhUh yeah thats normal
It's strange that these people who are so sensitive to radio signals are not affected by the huge antenna next door
I was thinking the same...and then that woman says people who don't understand her are uneducated
they said it sends out signals
Yeah. I eye rolled at that.
i wish Laura had investigated this so called electromagnetic sensitive condition. it certainly feels more of a psychological issue.
Phil Thomas ikr
YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING MAGNETIC FIELD
MegaRadomstuff it is about the quantity received. The human body is receiving much more now than it is accustomed to. Why is it hard to believe a percentage of the population would be more sensitive to such things than others?
Duncan Bates Because it's been tested and all tests conclude that "electromagnetic hypersensitivity" is complete bullshit.
I said the same thing.
Do you think typing in all caps makes your opinion more correct or are you just a everyday douchbag noob?
I Prefer scrub
THIS TOWN IS A DREAM!!!
That guy bakes his lean cuisine.
Better Call Saul anyone?
AppleTechBeast That was my first thought too.
AppleTechBeast Better Call a psychiatrist.
AppleTechBeast OHH you beat me to the punch.
I thought immediately of that show as well. It's rather curious that the only people complaining of these mysterious symptoms aggravated by electrical currents are all women of a certain age & type.AppleTechBeast
Imightberiding also the symptoms are all varied, if it was real then you would see a standard set of symptoms not weight loss, headaches, or throwing up. what it might be is culture shock and anxiety which when put together result in someone who doesnt like electronic devices so they become physically weird around them. just like most people if they see a dead body will have a negative reaction (regardless of smell).
This is why I subscribed to you guys. You have the most insects and interesting stories that aren't violent like the ones that dominate the news.
radio quiet zone... has a walkie strapped to his side -_-
From the WHO website:
"A number of studies have been conducted where EHS individuals were exposed to EMF similar to those that they attributed to the cause of their symptoms. The aim was to elicit symptoms under controlled laboratory conditions.
The majority of studies indicate that EHS individuals cannot detect EMF exposure any more accurately than non-EHS individuals. Well controlled and conducted double-blind studies have shown that symptoms were not correlated with EMF exposure.
It has been suggested that symptoms experienced by some EHS individuals might arise from environmental factors unrelated to EMF. Examples may include “flicker” from fluorescent lights, glare and other visual problems with VDUs, and poor ergonomic design of computer workstations. Other factors that may play a role include poor indoor air quality or stress in the workplace or living environment.
There are also some indications that these symptoms may be due to pre-existing psychiatric conditions as well as stress reactions as a result of worrying about EMF health effects, rather than the EMF exposure itself."
That seems like a good place to study those supposedly electrosensitive people. There is a baseline of no or low EM noise; so, then if one had them come in and do tests now and then with of course different testing methodologies, they could determine if someone is really sensitive or if perhaps the anxiety of believing they are is triggering symptoms, or if maybe the symptoms aren't really even happening.
I go down there every year to go see my grandparents and it's actually really nice :'))
It's infuriating that the people that live there are setting up wireless modems and such...if you don't like it, move! You can have a wireless modem anywhere except this small area - so move if you don't like it! I would love to visit this area
agree 100%
Let me guess you have hypersensitivity to electromagnetic radiation? Humans can't have hypersensitivity on that low of a scale. If you're moving there just because you claim to have hypersensitivity to electromatic radiation, then your fucking retarded. Now if you're just moving there just to get away from it all.
Then that's fine, but don't claim hypertensitivity to anything because you're not a computer.
I would love to live in Green Bank, West Virginia! I've never owned a cell-phone in my life--and have no intention of getting one. To paraphrase what one of the people said in this video: We got along quite well in the 20th century without this technology.
+519DJW ...
I am glad that that place exists. I live with cell phones and wifi, but I also feel the effects. As a bee keeper, I am always vigilant to place my bees away from the unseen wireless pathways.
I hear that box springs pick up signals too. An easy way to reduce the wireless smog is to just sleep on the mattress and lose the box spring. Also I had a person come by with a meter to measure the EMF smog in my house and we found some outlets that hadn't been grounded properly. The smog or radiation went way down once the grounding was re-done properly.
The also recommended a large spike in the ground outside of the house at the 4 corners. For some reason that helped to ground out the whole house area. No wires attached, just a foot long steel nail in the ground at each corner. The readings dropped once we did that.
I plan to wire the internet in my house now too. Go WiFi free.
Like these women said, it really does help you to relax.
so... telescopes and crackpots?
Instead of doing it about 100 miles from DC, do it in the desert or the uninhabited plains in the Midwest.
Or Alaska
Think the desert would be better
it is flat, so perhaps the signal may spread better..?
+Griffin C. The desert is too open, allowing RF to travel, especially on a cloudy day.
The West Virginia mountains help quiet a bit. Not to mention, we cant be looking for aliens too far from Langley. haha
Sounds like heaven to me , to know that i will be living in a place without microwave , WI - FI and cellphone signals ...we were not designed for it , we were not prepared for it , it was forced to us ...
Evolutionary Mismatch - Humans are not made for the world we have created i.e. world full of technologies.
We're surrounded by things we didn't evolve for, and that we didn't choose as individuals. Doesn't mean they're bad for us.
So the electromagnetic field effects is exclusive to hippy women?
Pretty much.*****
+FuckGodism - probably to the same extent that closed-minded opinionism is exclusive to testosterone driven linguistic bullies.
Madelyn Griffith-Haynie
testosterone driven linguistic bullies?
Ahahaha!
+FuckGodism These women have exhausted their life savings and liquified all their assets to find doctors who will treat them and get the help they need. When you have no money left, there is a good chance you'll look a little hippy-ish.
+Madelyn Griffith-Haynie lol
Nocebo and self inception/conditioning can be a powerful psychological tool, as seen here.
"The neighbor's coffee maker makes my head hurt" "Everyone who doesn't believe me is uneducated"
Comrade Dan: I was one of them until I got educated. No energy for yet another problem, but it seemed unwise to not check it out.
We need zones like this in every state in America
Yes!
But then you won't be able to comment and post worthless garbage on youtube...
I agree!
escapes electric devices .... got 2 imac's in the house ... *facepalm*
she is being recorded with a camera and has two lamps in her house
It's the wireless radiation that is the worst. Two computer connected to the internet through cables and kept at a good distance most of the time and only used frequently (probably powered off most of the time as well) will not do much. It is kind of bare minimum in our day and age. On the other hand, living in a city where tens of thousands of cellphones, cellphone towers, laptops, wi-fi's, smart meters, microwaves and so on constantly operate is obviously a huge difference, don't you think? The reason some people get more sensitive to all that stuff, when they were not before, is that they are exposed to an abnormal amount of radiation for a longer period of time. When you remove yourself from that exposure, the sensitivity will gradually go down, obviously. It is like if you burn your skin from being out in the sun too much. After that you should avoid contact with the sun as munch as you can. But wait a few days and it is okay. The sensitivity is caused by overexposure and it will revert to some degree once that exposure has been reduced.
@@Avendesora322 Do you know absolutely nothing about radiation and the electric magnetic scale? Radio waves and light are one in the same the only difference is we can see light and cannot see radio waves. Do people get cancer from over exposure to light? no.
A. Drep, it’s not hooked up to the internet. It’s the wi-fi making them sick, or if electric devices are making them sick, they can turn it off.
I would love to live here.. wow so peaceful no internet or cellphones...
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity? Stress! It is called stress.
Cyrus Hale I smell some BS
No it's not stress you un-educated people, man made EMF's are killers. 2g and 3g were tested back in the 90's on rats and all the rats got cancerous tumors within months, I guess the rats were stressed smh.
Stress?? The amount of ignorance in these comments ... Wow.
You people have no idea what's going on.
You are the dumbest person that doesn’t know nothing.
@@JasonLewis544 are you talking about nuclear radiation? mobile phones, radio, tv, don't even come close to visible light.
Don't cars with computers in them transmit waves?
DewClarke no LOL do you even know the difference between electric ,radio and micro waves?
DewClarke cars receive waves for radio and all, they don't transmit anything
+sadman hoque what do you think Onstar is? Plus a lot of new models come equipped with wifi.
GunRagDave
WiFi for the phones inside the car, and how do you think its connected to the internet? through a mobile network, so if there's no cellphone reception the car's wifi isn't doing anything
+sadman hoque Of course it is doing something. A WiFi hotspot is just a frequency broadcast. It'll broadcast a signal whether it is connected to the internet or not.
I wonder why they didn't build it smack in the middle of the desert ?
I like these small stories so much, I can know more about American culture and people, thank you seeker daily for the stories.
Sergeant Volokov I was not talking about the illness but the thought of not using cell phones m
I cannot believe you guys have Lisa Ling, that's pretty amazing. I love her work.
They should make a horror movie based off of this
"Phones, tv's, coffee makers, and power lines make me sick"...girl, sthu🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
wow your awesome your videos are just great and your videos are useful thank you very much for this channel!
i was ready to rage because of a town that forces everyone to give up on these devices because of their odd views. but honestly here it's even for science and people who need this quiet get a safe haven I think that's just marvellous. people who cannot agree with this condition should get out; after all they even signed a contract in promise not to do so. I would like to run around naked but I don't do so do I? if you ERALLY need it be respectful, sell your place, move away.
Saul should just leave Chuck with these ladies here. #BetterCallSaul
Lol Ikr
I was thinking that as well
What will happen in 2021, you said "until 2021."
Jlink922 Its says a whole sentence after that. at 7:03..... "Until 2021, the Green bBank Telescope will be contributing to the biggest scientific search ever undertaken for signs of extraterrestrial life."
I think Jlink meant, "what will happen *AFTER 2021" because jlink obviously have read that last part
I love the movies you make. Keep going!
This channel is amazing
a bunch of hypochondriacs, lol.
I'd go there for holidays like a week or two in a year but I couldn't live there
I wish I could escape into a quite zone...
when you do not used FB or instagram you tend to appreciate your self more than constantly feeling left out and feeling very self conscious, you become yourself- and that is beautiful than anything
So if a serial killer is there, there is no way for anyone to know.
Of course this stuff happpens in West Virginia..
LMAO the pink two-tails granny's has iMac on her desk at the background.
Amazing. I love these stories about the world outside of our worlds. I stayed in Tennessee for a month a world away from the big city and it was pretty peaceful.... What these suffers suffer could be a form of epileptic shock. Certain devices like big screen t.v.s make me ill. I would love to own property here just to get away from it all, occasionally.
Skeptisism is ok on both sides, but please do your research before commenting. There are more studies showing harm and potential harm than there are studies that do not and the ones that do not show harm were sponsored by the industries. I use to use a cell phone on my left side of my head, I have had two tumors there since getting a cell phone, luckily both benign. Depending upon the device, I can tell if it is on or not and transmitting. The WHO did not move RF radiation to a 2b possible carcinogen for no reason.
My question has always been, do we want to wait like we did with Tobacco, or actually take a proactive approach.
I thought Area 51 was the largest place for alien finding.....
+Kim Lapitan - NO WAY!!! - "the largest place" for alien finding is the collective comment field of the internet. I guess if something doesn't bother the aliens, that's "proof" that it's couldn't possibly be a problem for 100% of the human race -- and since those aliens seem to be missing the human empathy gene, I guess that also means that its open season for ridicule and cyber-bullying?
Why the vitriol, haters? I mean, it's not as if they are forcing the rest of us to live in quiet zones, right?
I'm simply commenting to remind us all that that there was once a time when proponents of that crack-pot round-earth theory were ridiculed and imprisoned until they "recanted." At least those with hypersensitivity are "simply" made fun of by those who don't experience sensory-defensiveness and therefore won't believe or attempt to understand that it *might* become a problem now that wireless technology usage is practically endemic.
xx,
mgh
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+Madelyn Griffith-Haynie -_-
+Kim Lapitan I have to break it to you but Aliens don't exist.
***** where is your proof as well.
+Ashley Maria you really think that there's no other life in side the galaxy other than us? There's so many planets that we haven't even discovered yet.
Somebody should secretly setup WiFi hotspots near these places to see if it does really affect them,
and not some pseudo- science Bs that some more out spoken people would want the general public to believe
It's dose it's picking up signals from millions of years away and if we miss them their gone for ever
Oh yea, I forgotten about why they made these place in the first place
MegaRadomstuff I think he is referring to the hypochondriacs who live there.
You can't set up a wifi hotspot... There're no wifi/cell phone towers. Facepalm
thanks for the video I never new this
The interesting thing about the comments is no one says anything about the people using WiFi in a area they know it's prohibited. An example of people holding their rights as more important than the community and the law.
Chuck McGill, where u at.
First thing I saw was the guy with the radio strapped to his belt at 0:45 .. LOL
this place looks awesome, I put crystals around me for protection but moving sounds good.
Wow, I think I might stop by for a few weeks! I hate how humans have been so engrossed in technology and social media that they rarely even talk face to face. Not only that, because I don't have a phone, I am deemed worthless in this society
You have fucked up perception of reality if you think people "deemed you worthless" because you don't have a phone. I'd suggest that you stop using technology.
+Crazy Frog Lady That shit can be used to track you, so its not totally worthless, you can become untraceable.
Crazy Frog Lady fun you say that because you're using technology to watch and comment on this video
Crazy Frog Lady Did you view and and comment on this video from a fucking potato?
At least people there grow mentally more stable
Three time elected Prime Minister of Norway and former head of the World Health Organization, Gor Brundtland banned cell phones in her office due to headaches and other health issues it caused her after an accident with a microwave oven. She is certainly a credible, sane witness.
European residents are really educated compared to United States. Half of all US people are completely uneducated including politicians in Washington DC.
That poor lady who gets migraines "even" with electrical lines must have gone through hell with all those lamps on during the interview.
The research they are doing in this area is so important! They should fine anyone using devices that could transmit waves. One $5000 would stop this activity immediately.
I think they should be evicted too
Tinfoil hats for everyone!
Dr Erica Mallery Blythe says that EMF could be the worst public health disaster of all time. ua-cam.com/video/7iP0-HAXHKU/v-deo.html
This is very interesting :) id like to check it out some day ....I’m able to find out about this through my cell phone use hahah but I like this idea ....
"when the neighbors make coffee my head hurts"
I want to move there
Hypersensitivity is croc. How do you live in a town with with a giant antennae if you have problems with radio and microwaves, electricity and stuff. These people are clearly crazy. Cars are driving around, and these are equipped with radios. The real test would be to put them in a room with all these "electronic allergens" don't tell them, tell them it's a dead zone and see how they react. I want to see that put to the test unbeknownst to them and if it's true what they claim... okay I'll believe it. If not, help those people.
I want to go there!
I m gonna move there....i ve suffered from EMF pousoning for 17 years.. .i v spent a lot of money obtaining protective devices, helps a little ....i ve been wanting to live in a cabin with no electric, wood stove, outhouse, well with a bucket
The fact that this place is full of hypochondriacs makes it a little creepy. Also did you notice that all of them happened to be women? Lol
+John Wick Sure did!
John Wick Hysteria: uterus illness
thats a long ethernet cable for his laptop
It's not connected to the internet. Derp.
Amazing story. Want to live there
the funny thing is, that the electro magnetic spectrum covers visible light... so yeah, not electro magnetic hyper sensitivity...
.........the whole entire earth is encompassed in a magnetic field.....oh wait til these ppl find this out then their faces will go numb and become uncontrollably ill LOL
Exactly, the earth has its own geomagnetic field, and it drives biological processes in humans and animals. Man-made magnetic fields disrupt those processes and cause disease. Get it now dummy?
I would love to do an interview with a cellphone in my pocket whilst downloading content... do that for three weeks around these people, constantly ask them how they are feeling and finally reveal it in the end. and be like, you didn't say shit for 3 weeks of this exposure, now you feel something?
We lived close to here and never heard of it!
interesting good video! It seemed a little scary in the beginning, almost cultish but to each their own. I imagine to live there you have to be very introverted in the first place. Cheers +Seeker Stories
I feel bad for the kids living here, restricted wifi
So what? There’s nothing wrong with it, they do like living in Society when the internet did not exist back then.
Both that, and they're probably surrounded by people raising them on pseudo-science.
People that say Wi-Fi makes them feel sick makes me sick to my stomach
Man made EMF's are extremely dangerous and are killers
Wah. Teringin pulak dduk kat situ. Aku selalu sangat main telefon je.
I love this! cant they have these zones in every country? it encourage us not to be SSSOOOOOO depended on cells, internet etc... I'm ok. when I go away for 2 wks I don't use net or my phone I love the break. I think I can live in this zone. wish they had something this beautiful and quiet in u.k.
Great video, "They are uneducated, they are close-minded and they are selfish" pans to a bible
+SilicalNZ I agree man, while the symptoms are real there is no scientific proof that this is an anctual physical condition. So yea it's in their damn biblebrains
biblebrains - love it ^_^
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who saw that haha
Uhhh what's with reading the Bible
right
Seems like the people who moved to that area are not allergic to electromagnetism but to their own imagination.
Seemed like all these workers had 2-way high powered radios. And the driver scanning the town had many Radios. CB, Ham, Ect. Seems like most have lights. the unit is powered and there is a power grid. The unit once decommissioned should be moved to a dessert. The Quiet Zone is VERY huge.
I just went through Virginia and West Virginia a few days ago, this would of been a cool thing to see.....
were all the ladies suffering from electrical exposure redheads...hmmmm
Maybe more places should do this. It is killing us & making us sick, both mentally AND physically
Yes!
Lol, I wasn't paying much attention at the beginning of this vid and I thought "wow, Lisa Ling looks reeeeaaally different".
West Virginia no cell signal? What about if we make a wrong turn! Lol
"When the neighbor ran her coffee maker" I guess I'm closed minded and selfish according to the one lady because that sounds a little ridiculous to me.
Allergic to electricity ?. You do know your brain uses electricity to work right......
Are you that gullible
I wonder if any doctor has actually looked at and confirmed the processes involved in electric field sensitivity or whatever it's called.
Of course they have. It's been researched to death and proven to be a psychosomatic issue, but unfortunatley the electro-sensistive people tend to take that as an insult and go on believing radiation is dangerous.
"even the kind of transmitters that are in your digital camera, would wipe out the signals".... lol
+Seeker Stories "Town Banning Cell Phones and Wi-Fi"? Seriously? Where is it in this video? God damn it, you started out as a fairly decent channel telling amazing stories. *And now you are down to cheap click-baiting.* That's pathetic. Maybe you should remember once in a while that your channel's title is "Seeker Stories", not "Another Crappy Top 10".
That did? Did you watch the video?
Captain Sum Ting Wong "That did?" What is your question even about? :-)
+TinyShaman This isn't even close "to another crappy top 10" but, that's just me.
***** OK, let me break it down for you:
Whenever a text mentions "a _town / city_ doing something" *it means that the municipal authorities do it*. If you know what "municipal authorities" are, you might understand my surprise after reading the title. Banning such things as mobile phones and Wi-Fi would be quite a trick for them. And the main reason I watched the video was learning how they managed to pull it.
But, instead of what is mentioned in the title, the channel shows us a pretty regular situation - *a radio silence zone established by a federal government*. Hence my resentment. Do you get it now?
***** A linguistic error? You didn't understand a word of my response. Try again.
Or don't. Because if you don't see any difference between
1. a town legislating a ban on something and
2. a town located in a sparsely populated area of the Radio Quiet Zone which has existed since late 1950s and isn't actually legally enforced, AND, consequently, not banning jack,
then maybe there isn't much we can discuss.
I find it kind of funny but its only women with the bizarre idea that radio waves makes them sick
Well, only women where *shown.*
MyFiveSeconds yes but I saw a show on this and out of like 25 people shown there was one man. Same as with tarot cards, horoscopes, it's redicoilous
Jeffery Williams So what are you trying to say?
Titty Mcgee This probably has a lot to do with women historically being encouraged to stay away from critical thinking/science. Women were traditionally supposed to just listen to their husband and take the kids to church, you know? This idea hasn't quite been bred out of us yet. Give it another couple of decades.
Titty Mcgee ok lol
There is a name for people with that sickness.... Single
I believe they are doing more than looking at the stars in that dead zone.
Green Bank is living in the past!!!! Missin' out for Galaxys, Xboxes, Wii U's, PlayStation Vitas, etc. Don't forget Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP).
Bruhh them iMacs in the back tho what can she do with no wifi And the electricity affects her lmaoooo then how she turns the lights on 😂😂😂
I felt so good thde last time we went up to Ozarks. I wander if it was the lack of electro waves going through my body!
Thanks to Starlink there will be no quiet zone anywhere. We are living in a toxic emf soup.