Today we begin with a fascinating trip to a place you probably haven’t heard of and will likely never visit. A place that’s been kept radio wave-free for decades. A quiet place. Those who’ve sought it out say it’s been life-changing. Their experience raises questions about health effects the rest of us might be experiencing from growing exposure to the devices we’ve come to rely on daily. And while they might be hard for us to live without, you’re about to meet people who say they can’t survive with them around.

The following is a transcript of a report from “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.”
Watch the video by clicking the link at the end of the page.

A winding mountain road leads us to Green Bank, West Virginia. A valley sheltered by mountains and so remote fewer than 200 people call it home. Which is exactly why it was chosen to locate this giant, space-gazing instrument.

Anthony Remijan: The Green Bank telescope is the most massive moving object on land. It has a 100-meter radio telescope that collects very weak signals from outer space.

Green Bank also happens to be about the last place in America where — under state and federal law— you can officially escape the constant hum of Electromagnetic fields: EMF. Invisible areas of radiation energy produced by electricity.

Anthony Remijan is director of the Green Bank Observatory.

Sharyl: Can you simply explain a radio free zone and what was the intent in the 1950s before there was the technology we have today?

Remijan: Absolutely. So right after World War II was decided that we needed a national observatory, and radio astronomy was just coming into its infancy, given the technology of radar that was produced, you know, during the World War II. And so Green Bank was a perfect site for that. As you can see, we’re surrounded by mountains. So it was the perfect site to build one of the, you know, most sensitive radio telescopes in the world. The radio quiet zone was established shortly after that to make sure that no fixed transmitters were put in so we could really do the science and technology development that we needed for the country.

Within a ten-mile radius, the West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zone, strict rules apply: No operational mobile phones on site, no microwaves, no wireless transmitters, no cordless phones. And no WiFi.

Sharyl (on-camera): Wi-Fi uses radio signals to connect wirelessly with phones and other devices. It’s the same type of wavelength put off by objects in space. Which is why Wi-Fi can interfere with the signals scientists are trying to detect with the telescopes.

Remijan: We could detect cell phones on Mars. That’s how sensitive our equipment is. And so if we’re going to be looking at that type of signal coming from that deep in space, what we need is an area that is quiet as possible to, you know, really suppress the emission from basically earthbound radio transmitters. So that’s why there’s no cell phones allowed on site. And we don’t even have microwaves on site because we, that also emits radiation that we could actually easily detect when you’re microwaving your lunch. And so we try to be as quiet as possible.

Most might consider Green Bank’s status to be inconvenient. But it’s actually become a point of attraction for a small but growing number of people – estimates around 100.

They’ve moved here for relief from the life’s daily assault of electricity which they say causes them everything from intense headaches, to heart and brain issues.

Lia Langston moved here from Nebraska six years ago, fleeing electric fields that she’s convinced contributed to her liver failure and her organs shutting down.

Lia Langston: If I would be driving in the car and there were major power lines, I would get very anxious and the side of my head would get, just feel such pressure that I knew I was having a problem.

She says a specialist connected her problems to electricity.

Langston: My cells have a condition that allow too much calcium in inside and that causes my cells to be like an antenna that just gather all electricity and radiation and make me sick, causes me great pain.

Sharyl: What did the neurologist diagnose you with? How did he explain to you what was happening?

Langston: He put all the dots together and said that my various symptoms was radiation and whether it was from electricity or the LED lights or Wi-Fi, I seemed to be sensitive to all of them. My neurologist told me that if I didn’t leave, I would die within three weeks cause my heart was giving out on me. And he was in a mentorship for electrical sensitivity, which was remarkable. So my husband threw me in the RV, packed what we could, sold everything and here we are.

Others who are sensitive to electricity came to Langston’s house to tell us why they uprooted to start a new life in this quiet zone

Sharyl: Why you are here and what brought you here?

Sunny: I’ve suffered from sensitivity to cell phones and to electricity for a while. And I was living in Brooklyn for about 10 years and it increased. And one day I became so ill that I came here only for, I thought a couple of weeks and I’ve just still, I’m still here.

Lisa: I’ve had the sensitivity for a while and it, at one point it got much worse. But then our county council voted to have 5G small cell antennas in front of every home. And so then I knew that I had to leave.

Sharyl: You just came here recently?

Lisa: I just came here two weeks ago.

Bob: Well, I first became RF sensitive when they turned on seven smart meters underneath my bedroom back in 2012. The last thing that got me here was that I finally, from magnetic fields, from bad wiring in the condo, I had a heart attack.

Andrew McAfee: My wife and I finally decided we have to get some property here and get a house here. Our health was getting worse and worse. So finally two years ago, we have a house here. So I work about three or four days a week from this location helping local clients as well as for my own health.

Andrew McAfee isn’t just a sufferer, he’s also a licensed electrician who troubleshoots houses of electrically sensitive people.

McAfee: You are clean. Good.

Before our interview, he checked out our camera gear to make sure it wasn’t emitting any signals.

Sharyl: So what’s the definition for what we’re talking about today?

McAfee: I call it electrical sensitivity. By reducing our exposure to external sources of electromagnetic forces, we have a chance to finally be free of what’s causing the disease.

In fact, he says he made sure Lia Langston’s home was safe for her when it was under construction.

Sharyl: What did you do in this house as it was being built?

McAfee: I worked with the installing electrician to make sure that the way that the wires were shielded would be correct. There’s a lot of things that you can mess it up on, and he was a very good electrician. But basically installing MC cable or shielded cable is the first step, and that’s what they did.

Overall, major health groups insist the levels of radiation we’re exposed to are safe. But as wireless technology has exploded – most American children have a mobile device, there’s Wi-Fi everywhere — concerns are rising about what chronic exposure might do to our health.

Numerous expert health groups and studies have classified, as possibly cancer causing, the electromagnetic fields created by microwaves, cell phones, cell phone towers, laptops, smart devices, and other everyday tools, with greatest risks to children. Other documented impacts include fertility issues, immune and genetic changes, and brain effects that can fuel depression and anxiety.

Sharyl: Is it fair to say that some people are more affected than others because they have some other co-factor?

McAfee: That is absolutely 100% true. There are infections, there are diseases inside of us that are being stimulated, which will increase a disease. MS, Parkinson’s, all this stuff is absolutely known. 100% to be reduced when you take away the dirty electricity or lower the electric fields, magnetic fields. So the other component of this is, well, could everyone benefit with a lower wireless exposure? Yes, of course. Your chronic fatigue, your eye burn, your mood swings, all this blood sugar, it’s all well documented. It’s just what’s the cost benefit.

But even in America’s last legislated quiet zone, there are rumblings. Recent loosened restrictions approved by the Observatory allow common Wi-Fi. The shift, say some, driven, by the local school’s needs.

Sharyl: What do you have to say about that? Is that a concern?

McAfee: It’s really a death knell to all of us who have invested in this area to have it protected. It would be very easy for citywide Wi-Fi with emitters on every pole to then go up and be ubiquitous all over the county. I know there’s requirements for them to get approval on that, but there, right now nothing would stop it.

Sharyl: Are you actively lobbying to try to stop the Wi-Fi change that’s already happened or to stop future changes?

McAfee: We wanna hold it right here.

Lia Langston says she hopes the electromagnetic waves don’t reach her remote acreage outside of town. She still has serious health problems but says the quality of her daily life since she moved to the area is priceless.

Langston: People don’t understand the symptoms that they have, that they dismiss for their pets, for themselves, for their children. They need to pay attention.

Sharyl (on-camera): McAfee has advice he says anyone can benefit from: no phones in the bedrooms, turn off Wi-Fi at night, keep devices away from your head and body.

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