It’s also become a refuge for so-called “electrosensitives,” convinced that iPhones, refrigerators and microwaves are making them physically ill, despite no medical evidence that such a condition exists. He once arrested one of the members on assault charges, but found him to be “a very cordial guy.” “You can’t legislate it, you can’t change it, so you just learn to suck it up and live with it,” said former county sheriff David Jonese. Nobody takes much notice of the Neo-Nazis, even local law enforcement. As an engineer for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Chuck Niday regularly roams the town searching for unauthorized signals. Over the last few decades, there’s been an influx in doomsday preppers and Neo-Nazis, who’ve come to escape the attention (and perceived dangers) of an increasingly digital, electrified world. The Quiet Zone has also attracted people who aren’t just looking for the simple life. Trents General Store in Arbovale, about a half mile from the observatory, has two conveyor belts covered in sticky notes from shoppers who leave messages there for friends or family. But it’s also definitely strange.īecause of the lack of cellphones, locals find creative ways to communicate with each other. Green Bank and the surrounding towns - the total population in the area is around 8,000 people - may seem idyllic.
In his Dodge Ram 2500, Niday drives around the observatory and its location in the town of Green Bank (estimated population: 180), “searching for ghosts: the invisible waves of electromagnetic radiation that are all around us,” Kurczy writes. West Virginia’s Green Bank Observatory boasts the largest steerable radio telescopes in the world - at a cost.
“Hypothetically, you couldn’t turn on a smartphone in town without him knowing,” Kurczy writes. Niday, an engineer for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, has been on the front lines for protecting this radio-quiet environment since 2011. When it first was built, the federal government also established the surrounding county as a National Radio Quiet Zone - where “cellphone signals, Wi-Fi, and other electronic noise are tightly monitored and restricted,” writes journalist Stephen Kurczy in his new book, “ The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence” (Dey Street Books), out August 3. But cutting off outside noise isn’t enough. Sitting in a valley, the surrounding mountains offer a natural barrier against the outside world’s noise. Since it opened in 1958, the observatory has discovered black holes, radiation belts and gravitational waves. The observatory boasts the largest steerable radio telescopes in the world, used to measure invisible energy waves raining down on Earth, but in order to do its job, it requires complete electromagnetic silence. This 13,000-square-mile area in West Virginia is home to Green Bank Observatory - and known for being “the quietest town in America.”
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