Travis Taylor: “Are we allowed to Air this?”

I think before you open that up or do anything like that I would definitely or maybe not, what the crap is this? It smelled or something.

All right, well look, if you won’t look down in there, it’s just filled with crappy water. I mean, muddy water or whatever. Maybe it’s a septic tank. Seriously polluted. Well, it looks pretty bad. It stinks though, whoo, so there’s something in there.

Yeah, you know, I don’t know if I want to say it or not, but I feel like I don’t know. I’ve got a little bit of a headache or something happening. So what? Why don’t we get out of here? Maybe the smell, maybe some mildew or mold or something here.

So listen, let’s get back out to the road where there’s more airflow. I started getting this headache and this nausea feeling. I wasn’t sure what it was, but I realized, you know, I’ve got this dosimeter in my pocket.

All right, well maybe we should check our dosimeters or whatever.

Yeah, holy, mine’s beeping. Your back’s so straight. About once—one, that’s 120-something. That’s pretty high. That’s pretty high. This is really scary.

My dosimeter device, which measures exposure to ionizing radiation, is showing that I just got hit with a hundred and twenty millirads per second. That’s like getting 20,000 full-body x-ray scans in an airport, which is five times more than the legal limit allows in a year. So I just accumulated a semi-dangerous dose.

We’re reading the exact same amount of rate, but this thing accumulated more.

Well, and I was the one who stood over that hole when we opened it up. No, we were just exposed to ionizing radiation.

Wow. Now, I’ve got to tell you that it’s not a lethal dose, non-lethal, but is it accumulated?

Oh, so you’re not gonna see how in the middle of nowhere, guarantee. Yep, and it, well, it is enough that they’re saying, “Hey, it’s dangerous, get out of that place and don’t stay in that place.”

So we need to stop the GPR. Let’s load the stuff up. All right, cool.

What happened at homestead-2 really shook me up. And then the next day, I noticed weird red marks on my hand and my head. I went to my doctor to get checked out, and he confirmed they were radiation burns.

I’m okay now, but I’m really anxious to get to the final results of our GPR scans to find out if it’s something in the ground that caused this.