As much as I hate to admit it, we depend on our smartphones for almost everything these days.

Need a place to eat? You go on Yelp. Need directions? You go on Google Maps. Flat tire, you call

AAA. Everything is right at our fingertips all the time. I mean, I often say I could run the world with my little iPhone.

In fact, we as humans have become so dependent on this stuff that when we lose service for

even a few minutes, we go into panic mode.

Why won't my emails load? Why are my text turning green?

Oh my goodness, I hate that. We've also all uttered those famous words. Can you hear me now?

Luckily, in this day and age, it's rare to find a place where you're totally without service for more

than a few minutes or miles. But what if I told

you there was one place on this planet where your precious cell phone would hardly work at all?

Rosh is talking about a roughly 30-mile wide spot in the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico, and it's

called La Zona del Salencio. And while not having

service is definitely a terrifying thought, there are actually stranger things going on in this part of the

country. And we'd like to give a small disclaimer here. We will be saying a lot of names in Spanish because our story today takes place in Mexico.

So please forgive us if our pronunciation isn't perfect, but no, we will do our very best.

I know I want to make my Argentine wife proud.

Muches

gracias. Yes. Please give us grace, y'all. La Zona del Salencio is a blackout spot for

radios, compasses go askew, satellite communications don't work. Even car engines reportedly

have a hard time starting here. Not only that, it seems

to be a place that meteorites are attracted to, a place where a super rare species of plants

and animals roam, and where UFOs are seen in abundance.

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