Chuck Bryant

They can't use them for texts or calls.

So there was one teen that said it's basically a clock and a calculator.

So I imagine calculator watches are very much in style still.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, that's one thing Anna mentions sort of at the end of her research was like, there was a while there where the Gulf was really big.

Like when, you know, for the longest time, it was like, oh, things aren't that much different.

But then once the internet came along and then they weren't getting things like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, like the Gulf got pretty wide there for a while.

But like we said, it attracts a lot of interesting folks.

There are certainly some conspiracy theorists that go there on purpose.

The National Alliance headquarters for the neo-Nazis has been in Pocahontas County for a long time.

Obviously, you're going to get some hippies, some communes.

There was a quasi-cult, perhaps, called Zendik Farm that was there for a little while.

They kind of moved all over.

I looked into them all over the United States, but ended up there until one of their dear leaders passed away in 1999.

The other, Errol Zendik,

passed away in 2012, so that's when that kind of ended.

And we'll talk about this last group toward the end, but most famously, it's probably known where you might have seen articles or news reports, people moving there that suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity.

Yeah.

That might have been where I read about it.

Yeah, yeah.