The Zone of Silence (in Mexico)

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Anyone heard about this? I keep wondering if it would be better (b/c it dampens

radio signals) or worse (b/c it does so using powerful magnetic fields, probably

from the earth) for an EHSer. Ideas, anyone? 

http://www.strangemag.com/zoneofsilence.html

" ...we need not travel so far to encounter a part of the world that

is even more perplexing than these others, although it remains little known to

most people: Mexico's mysterious, magical zona del silencio--the Zone of

Silence,

just four hundred miles away from El Paso, Texas. Deserts are often considered

to be mysterious enough without the added weirdness that this patch of earth

some

four hundred miles from El Paso has to offer. It is a place which gobbles up

radio and TV signals, and which has of late been associated with the UFO

phenomenon.

....Pena and his group became aware of the " silence " when they found that itwas

impossible to communicate with one another via walkie-talkies: radio waves

are not transmitted at the accustomed speed and frequency. Portable radios

would emit but the lightest whisper when turned on at full volume. To this day,

television signals cannot be received in Ceballos or in the neighboring ranches.

Some magnetic force, with the power to dampen radio waves, seems to exist in the

region. "