It's one of those places said to be among the world's most anomalous, a zone of silence

in Mexico, where radios, compasses, cell phones, and other electronics simply refuse to

work.

It even has a strange and mysterious geological history, with meteorites said to be highly

magnetic, and even an errant United States nuclear missile.

It's also a place that you personally can go and visit and see these anomalies for

yourself.

Mexico's zone of silence is coming right up on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Mexico's zone of silence.

Deep in the interior of Mexico in the Chihuahua Desert is a sparsely populated region of

ranch land and vacant expanses.

It's known for a curious trait, radios are said not to work there, and it's claimed

that compasses only spin uselessly.

But amid this eerie radio silence, where commercial radio broadcasts are muted, and even

handheld walkie talkie sets are said to fail, are even more strange phenomena, weird lights

in the sky, unusual UFOs, crazy meteor showers seen nowhere else on earth, and even a creepy

race of Nordic-looking aliens.

This is the zone of silence, or Mopimi-Silent Zone.

Geographically it's on the western edge of the Bolson de Mopimi.

A hundred thousand square kilometers sink into which rivers flow, but none flow out of,

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