Sagan, Carl, 29–30, 175
Santomero, Nancy, 193, 194–200
Saslow, Eli, 276
satellite internet, 290–91
Savage, Randy, 165
Schou, Bert, 77–78, 152, 155, 255
Schou, Diane, 73–78, 251, 285; community frustration with, 148–51; electromagnetic hypersensitivity of, 73–78, 147–51, 152, 155, 267; nocebo effect and, 155; skepticism of some electrosensitives, 158; Sugar Grove and, 69
Schou, Paul, 77–78
Scientific Committee on Frequency Allocations for Radio Astronomy and Space Science, 117–18
Seielstad, George, 245
Sellers, David, 206
Senate Committee on Appropriations, 43, 243, 244–46
Senate Special Committee on Aging, 18
Seneca State Forest, 170
SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence), 29–30, 43–44, 48, 288–89
sex cult, 216–18
Shallows, The (Carr), 42
Shawnee Indians, 25–26
Sheepsquatch, 61
Sheets, Beatrice Blackhurst, 28–29
Sheets, Bob, 24–26; collapse of telescope, 241; on conspiracy theories, 62–63; COVID-19 pandemic and, 302, 303; culture of Pocahontas, 71–72; cutting down a Christmas tree, 282; history of Green Bank, 28–29; history of Pocahontas, 25–26; lack of WiFi, 296–97; on “mountain justice,” 198–99; RFI at house of, 46; Thanksgiving of 2018, 239–40, 248–49, 298
Sheets, Elaine, 24, 72, 241, 296–97; Thanksgiving of 2018, 239–40, 248–49, 298
Sheets, Jed, 239–40, 297
Sheetz, 167
Shenandoah National Park, 260
Shepherd University, 56
Siddhartha Gautama, 79
Simmons, Eugene: double homicide of 1957, 224–25; on the hippies, 98, 218; National Alliance and Pierce, 137; Rainbow Gathering murders of 1980, 195–96, 199–200, 201–2; suicide of Roberts, 256–57
Simmons, John, 113, 150–51
Sims, David, 126
Sins of My Father (Pierce), 137–38
Sisters in Hate (Darby), 140–41
60 Minutes (TV series), 128, 195
Sizemore, Hanna, 302–3
Sizemore, Nathaniel “Dane,” 176–78
Sizemore, Wesley, 45–48, 49–50, 84, 113–14, 119–20, 176–77
sleep deprivation and cellphone usage, 83
SMART Board, 166
smartphones. See cellphones
Smith, Hanna, 175–78
Smith, Joseph, 136, 202–3
Smith, Mike, 175–76, 215
Smith, Philip, 53
Smith, Walter, 223–26, 228–29, 230, 231
Smith College, 176
Smith & Wesson, 3, 125, 262
Snowden, Edward, 57
Snowshoe Mountain Resort, 86, 112, 161, 186, 282, 290
Social Security accounts and cell phones, 18
Socrates, 19
solar storms, 66–67
Solliday, Daniel, 115–16
Solliday, Mathias, 33, 115, 170–71, 301
Southern Poverty Law Center, 91, 94, 106–7, 137, 138, 143, 269, 278
Space Shuttle, 33
SpaceX, 290–91
Spirits Evolving, 262
Spock, Benjamin, 213
Spruce Knob, 27
Staggers, Harley O., 54–55
Stanga, Leslie, 259–60, 261, 263–64
Starlight Café, 116
Star Trek (TV series), 109
Station 2 Restaurant, 8, 11–13, 152, 155, 184, 286
Stauffer, Kathryn, 116, 256
Stein, Jill, 76
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education, 89, 170–71
Stephanopoulos, George, 104
Stormfront, 139, 276
Stranger Things (TV series), 63, 176
stroke and human-made noise, 81
Subutex, 272–28
Sugar Grove, West Virginia, 67–67
Sugar Grove Station, 54–59, 242, 288; conspiracy theories about, 61–62, 64–67, 68–70
suicide, 83, 154
Sullivan, Andrew, 80
Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age, A (Helfand), 18–19
Table Mountain Field Site and Radio Quiet Zone, 52–53
Taiwan, children and screen time, 172
Thing, The (film), 279
Thompson, Boyd, 221, 223, 224–26, 230
Thompson, Bryan Dewitt “De,” 21, 221–23, 271–72, 293–95; double homicide of 1957, 222–23, 224–28; Lobelia Saltpeter Cave expedition, 226–28, 230–35; marijuana raid, 272, 276
Thompson, Linda, 227, 234–35, 271, 272, 293–95, 294–95
Thoreau, Henry David, 19, 123–24
Timberline, 56–57
Time Well Spent, 173
tinnitus, 77, 160, 260–61
T-Mobile, 290
Top Hat (film), 40
tourism, 186–88, 295–96
Travolta, John, 201, 218
TRC Solutions, 119–20
Trent, Omar, 32
Trent’s General Store, 31–33, 35–36, 163, 286, 287–88, 302
Tritapoe, Kristy, 169–70
Trout Cave, 62
True Tales of Terror in the Caves of the World (Steward), 229
Trump, Donald, 66, 69, 131–32, 140, 209, 276, 305
Tully-Fisher relation, 242
Turner Diaries, The (Pierce), 93, 103, 104–5, 107, 126, 128–29, 130, 132, 133, 140, 305
Twenge, Jean, 83
Twilight Zone (TV series), 21
Twin Peaks (TV series), 71–72, 216
Twitter, 14, 18, 76, 84, 173, 207
UFOs (unidentified flying objects), 61, 158, 241
United States of America v. Timothy James McVeigh, 128
Universal Pictures, 210–11
universe, 9, 29, 30, 174, 242, 295
University of Colorado, 135, 177
UScellular, 77
Vance, J. D., 297–98
Varner, Kenneth “Buster,” 184–86, 286
Vassar College, 2, 260
Verizon, 182, 290
Verizon Innovative Learning, 171
Verschuur, Gerrit, 242–43
Very Large Array, 53, 246
Voices for Animals, 260
Vonnegut, Kurt, 201
Walker, Chelsea, 187
Wallace, George, 103
Wallace, Mike, 128
Wall Street Journal, 69
Walton, Winters Charles “Pee Wee,” 196–98
Wampus Cat, 61
Warner, David, 66
Warren, Samuel, 15
Warwick, William, 25
Warwick’s Fort, 25
Watoga State Park, 223
Watts, Galen, 39
Wave Analysis Verification Research (WAVR), 76, 159
Weinstein, Netta, 83
Welcome to Leith (documentary), 144
Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, 72–74, 78, 149, 152, 285
Westminster College, 176
Weston State Mental Hospital, 223
West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, 102
West Virginia First Lego League, 173
West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zoning Act of 1956, 28, 52, 116–19
West Virginia Radio Quiet Zone. See National Radio Quiet Zone
West Virginia Roadkill Cook-Off, 1, 91
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, 101
West Virginia University, 28, 182, 187, 223–24, 287, 301
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia (Catte), 298
white nationalism, 91–97, 124–33, 305–6; Charlottesville rally, 124–26, 131–32. See also National Alliance
White Sulphur Springs, 62
WiFi, 2, 11–12, 45, 113–20; global, 290–91; interference. See radio frequency interference; schools and, 47–48, 164, 165–71, 172, 178–79, 301; tourism and, 186–88, 295–96
“WiFi refugees,” 69, 72. See also electromagnetic hypersensitivity
Williams, Robin, 202
, 205, 221
Williams, William White, 94, 107, 136, 292–93
Wimer, Bill, 229, 230
Wimer, Debbie, 229–30
Wood, Jennifer, 74, 75, 152–53, 291
Woody, Paulette, 49–54, 57–58, 291–92
World Health Organization (WHO), 76, 82, 148, 153, 172
Wulf, Arol, 217–18
Wulfsong Ranch, 218
Wullenwebers, 54–56
Yellowstone National Park, 50, 52, 81
Yew Mountain Center, 98–102, 118–19
Zendik, Wulf, 217–18
Zendik Farm, 102, 216–18
Zeskind, Leonard, 129
Zuman, Helen, 217
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STEPHEN KURCZY is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Christian Science Monitor, among other outlets. He graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a 2016–2017 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism. Kurczy has lived without a cell phone for more than a decade.
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