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There

There are

There are 52

There are 52 different

There are 52 different symptoms.

Lose my concentration.

I lose focus.
I lose my balance.

It's all, like, aches and pains
and nausea.

Unless if you're experiencing
the illness yourself,

you would think it's insane.

[Indistinct talking]

Chuck McGill, the brilliant
lawyer on "Better Call Saul,"

claimed to suffer from

electromagnetic
hypersensitivity,

or EHS.

Cellphones, radios, TVs,
even light bulbs

appear to inflict great pain.

And while many believe
that Chuck's condition

was invented for the show,
in actuality,

thousands of people
around the world

claim to suffer
from this illness.

[Laughing]
Can one really escape

all the electromagnetic forces
in this world?

♪♪

I'm Linda Bender,
I'm 54 years old,

and we are headed towards
Green Bank, West Virginia.

In 2004, I found I was
reacting to electricity,

and I thought I was going crazy,
and I'm like, "What is this?"

and went to an environmental
doctor, as prescribed,

or as recommended
for the illness,

and he confirmed everything.

So I had to get rid of about 85%
of the things that I had.

I was living in the wilderness,
and I need another safe home.

That brings me to Green Bank
because this is where people

with my illness congregate
and say it's pretty safe.

We have the largest movable
radio telescope in the world.

We're in a radio quiet zone

so that there's no interference
with the transmissions

from the telescopes.

As a result, it's inviting to
the electro-sensitive people.

This area has become better
known as being a haven for them.

Is moving to a town that bans
radios, TV, cellphones,

and other modern conveniences --
is that really the answer?

For Philadelphia native
Linda Bender,

Green Bank, West Virginia,
may be her last hope.

Bender:
These are my gadgets

for helping me
live with my illness.

A test kit to see if you're
sensitive to radio frequency.

The trifield meter.

Textbook from Europe.

This talks about
magnetic biology,

and we don't actually
study that in the U.S.

A book that talks about
mercury poisoning.

A measuring tool for --
a VOM, basically.

It's a couple bucks,
but you can actually shield --

use this as shielding
against RF.

This tool is very useful
for seeing

if your wires are correct.

Different fabrics
that are available

for shielding purposes.

Actually, I made an outfit
out of this.

This is a trifield meter
that I use

to measure the electronics
and exposures.

So we're just gonna
measure it here

and see if this is actually
exposing us in any way.

So as we get closer,
it should go up in number.

Three is cancerous.

So if someone built a house
right here,

that would be causing cancer.

And we're getting up to 50.

And now I feel like throwing up,

so I'm gonna actually
walk away from it.

Bennet: About 15 years ago,
I began to learn

about the issues
dealing with EMF sensitivity,

and we began to realize
that there was no place

for them to go in the world.

So we began to cater to this
very special group of people

as they increasingly
came into the inn.

Bender: And how long
have you been here?

About two and a half months
on the property.

Now more than ever,
we rely heavily on electronics

for work, to keep us connected,
and to live normal lives.

For eight years,
my wife has been sick.

And every time we went back
to the doctors

'cause she'd have more symptoms,

they couldn't find
what was going on.

It's like she was dying, to me.

She kept asking me,

"At least kill the,
you know, breakers

in all the rooms
you don't need on."

And then she asked me
not to have the cellphones

in the house,
so I put them in the car,

and I turned them off.

After doing that from a week,
I was sleeping all night...

Ah.

...all through the night,
and before I wasn't.

So it does affect everybody
on some level.

Jason: And then we started
researching and found out

there's people that move
out of their house,

out of their countries
just because

they gotta find
somewhere better to live.

I moved to Green Bank because
I am seriously injured.

I am seriously disabled
by exposure

to the invisible wireless
electromagnetic radiation.

I left my family,
my career, my home.

I left my measuring cups.

I left a lot of ingredients --

things that, you know,
for cooking and such.

A lot of people around here
think that the one common thing

they all have in common
is mental illness.

They seem very anxious.

I know for a fact,
up in Dunmore,

they've gone in churches

and turned off the lights
when they walked in.

They're kind of annoying.

Bender:
There's an oddity to us.

You find people
who are off the wall.

Do the people get along
with the sensitive?

No, because, you know,
they tell them,

"Well, turn this off.
Turn that off.

That affects me."

And they feel like
that's an invasion

on their rights, so...

Occasionally
I will get a headache.

You know, "Ouch."

You know, "Okay, there was
something that happened."

Maybe it was a car
that drove by.

Maybe I was in a car.

We were driving to someplace,

and I'm going, "Ah, that power
line I think I reacted to."

There's a woman,
Diane Schou...
Mm-hmm.

...and her nickname in the area
is "Electric Diane."

Okay.

And anybody that comes here
with that same viewpoint

is one of Electric Diane's
disciples.

I believe that all of us
are in a shift.

We've gone beyond the sphere
of safety for the human body

with the technologies
we've developed.

So I believe these people
who are EMF sensitive

are the front-runners,

and they have the opportunity
to help us as a race

learn how to handle
these interim issues.

It's so pushed off
as a negative illness,

we tend to hide and say,
"We don't have this,"

because it's, like,
a shameful thing to have.

Jason: Some of these people
get so bad

that they don't want
to live, like, 'cause

everybody's telling them that
there's nothing wrong with them.

It's in their head.
It's in their head.

I can't say that
I didn't think so at first.

I was like, "No, she's nuts.
It's it's not affecting me.

I feel fine. I'm using my phone.
I feel fine."

But I feel better
just being away from it.

I don't miss the electricity.
I really don't.

Bender: We have actually laws,
I believe, in U.S.

that we can't fight against
cellphone systems.

What can we do?

What if you woke up tomorrow
to find out that your cellphone

was causing you
insufferable pain

or that your Wi-Fi
was assaulting your body?

Would you stay connected
and suffer

or unplug, disconnect,

and remove yourself
from the world around you?

♪♪