Recently my fiancé, whose family hales from Mexico, told me about a little-known geographic phenomenon known as the Zona de Silencio or Zone of Silence near the county of
Chihuahua in Mexico. Apparently, it is a desert-like region where sound literally doesn’t travel further than a few feet and electronics cease to work. How can this be possible and why did the Bermuda Triangle get all the press when this spot is far more accessible? With bated breath…
BANG! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! CRASH! BLAMMO! CLANG!CLANG!CLANG!
(sorry. couldn’t resist. :D)
Sounds like an Urban Legend, if you ask me.
I would have to agree that this sounds like an UL to me. Why would there be a place on Earth where the known laws of physics cease to operate as normal? Sound travels through a medium. Unless the place was a vacuum (which I highly doubt) and there is nothing to obstruct the sound waves from traveling, I don’t see why this area should be any different from any other.
Zev Steinhardt
Seems to me the easiest explanation is precisely that it’s too accessible. Too easy to go there and see that it the zone doesn’t exist.
The Bermuda triangle, on the other hand, is large and difficult to get a handle on. Also, the phenomena attributed to the Bermuda triangle are not nearly so well-defined; they are mostly of the “unsolved mystery” variety.
Maybe you confusing it with Maxwell Smart’s “cone of silence”
GaryM
A long and involved story, it would seem:
Here’s the scoop from a magazine by and for people who want to believe strange stuff.
And here is another guy’s take on it.
Whoohoo - simulpost of the same link!
Now, I don’t know about that place, but I’ve seen something remarkably similar firsthand.
I worked on an egg farm when I was a kid. (it was hell) When I tried to take a radio onsite to listen to as I worked, the boss told me that it would die if I took it in. I took it anyway, and sure enough, it stopped working after an hour or so. As did my cool watch with the calculator on it. Neither of them ever worked again. Apparently he had previously had the Army Corps of Engineers out to have a look, and they left scratching their heads over it.
Are there more places like these? What the hell could it be?
Mr. Cynical said:
Dead batteries? 
This is a complete WAG, but could there be a large deposit of lodestone (magnetic iron) under the farm? It is said that in Michigan’s Iron Mountains, a compass will not point north and other magnetic-based equipment will not function properly either. This is due to the iron deposits that gave the area its name. I haven’t seen this myself because the Iron Mountains are in the western Upper Penninsula, which is BF England to the ninth power.
My ex-wife was able to control this phenomenon ie “Zona de Silencio”. It was amazingly specific though and would follow her from place to place.
astro, post a little more info, please. What you’ve said so far is leading, but not really informative.
Ook!
I think I got it. Never mind.
Can anyone say “chupacabra?” (sp?) Meet its very near cousin.