[birds caw] - I want to show you some lovely decorations on the tree and I thought, wow, welcome to West Virginia.

[Sue chuckles] But then you look over here and you see, wow, look at West Virginia.

Look at these trees, these pine trees, it's amazing.

It is so quiet here.

I mean- I mean, do you hear the wind right now?

Sometimes a bird will fly over and you hear the wings, you go, whoo, whoo, you know?

Or sometimes I'll come home late at night and my keys like- [keys jingle] You just hear the keys.

You know, like if you're in the city, you don't hear keys, you hear cars backfiring and garbage trucks and stuff, you know?

So- [loud traffic sounds] You are probably wondering why we have silver on the wall, but you'll find that out soon.

I have a condition called electro-hypersensitivity, also known as radio wave sickness.

This wall is painted with a special paint.

It's called Y-shield paint.

And then you have to ground it and there's a grounding plate right there.

I am made physically ill from radio wave devices and other electromagnetic fields, but in particular wifi, cell phone towers, smart meters.

They make my body extremely sick.

from the neighbor's house.

- This mesh on the windows is a- - This make with very thin silver threads and that will block any wifi coming in - It helps, it helps.

- It helps.

I had excruciating headaches.

My skin would burn.

This is my silver room.

I had tingling and numbness.

I had a heart arrhythmia.

As soon as I'm away from it, it would stop.

There's a direct cause and effect.

It took me quite a while to figure out what it was.

I have love-hate relationship with this room.

It's torture and yet I get relief in there and I sleep in there every night.

It's near impossible to get away from radio frequency, microwave radiation, it's everywhere.

I have to have the door closed.

I have a flashlight.

- [John] Completely dark black.

- I don't, it's not just to show that's my dance floor.

I found out about Green Bank in a magazine.

I found out that there were dozens of other people living there that have gone through, I mean it's amazing how similar our stories are.

So I'm gonna need a bed.

I gotta bring in one of the dressers.

I can't believe it.

- Are we ready?

- I'm going to go back next weekend to my trailer in Green Bank and John is going to stay here.

He's gonna work here.

Maintain the house.

You know, we care for some relatives that we're ... - Yes, we are intellectually, we know we have to be apart to take care of, you know, both ends, but emotionally is hard.

Really is hard.

You could watch, listen to a song or just have a thought or a memory and you know, you could get very emotional.

- There has been a lot of discussion about whether or not electro-hypersensitivity is truly a disease.

And what we find is that when they do come here, they do feel much better.

They gather here as a source of refuge and they're really great for what we do because they do not transmit and so they don't affect, you know, our operations at all.

So we have a what's called an Interference Protection Group.

He has a truck that's full of equipment that can detect fairly minute signals that he can scan for, like cell phones, even wifi.

If he finds a signal that is a problem to the astronomer, we can fix that.

- People naturally when they see a truck with a dozen antennas on the roof, they'd naturally start looking at us trying to figure out what it's all about.

I'm monitoring a frequency that's used on the cable TV system looking for interference.

And normally what I'm doing it, I leave the swell [indiscernible] and listen...

I listen more than look and hear things in the noise that don't show up on the screen.

And just keep tabs on the environment, see what's out there.