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Questions About Dowsing For Water

It rains so much in Washington state, I would challenge anyone to NOT find water anywhere!

Reply to
Bill
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I regularly find water lines and electric lines with two pieces of baling wire. You can either do it or not. If you can do it, you do it. If you can't, you whine that it's fake and others cannot do it.

HTH

Steve

Reply to
SteveB

Years ago when I was in the AIr Force a couple of felllow airmen and I tried to locate a 25 pair telephone cable that ws buried under an asphalt parking lot. We never could find the cable because with every other step I took the copper wires would cross and we would mark the spots they crossed on the asphalt. This led to some frustration so we got a CE guy to bring out a cable locator to find the cable. No problem but we did have to wait about 3 hours for him to come over. A few weeks later the adventure into dowsing was all but forgotten when the grass was cut around the parking lot revealing drainage tiles that coincide with the marks we made on the pavement.

Jimmie

Reply to
JIMMIE

I often wonder if any of the skeptics have actually tried using a couple bent wires. They work for me but I don't base any decisions on what they inidicate without other evidence supporting them. From tests of a few neighbors, friedns and family it seems that they work for at least half of anyone who tries it.

Harry K

Reply to
harry k

I am a skeptic, but in 1972 when I lived on a farm we had a dowser come tell us where a drain pipe went, and he located it for us. When he left, I picked up his sticks and walked back over his path, and the sticks did seem to dip at the right spot. I have no idea if this is an undiscovered science, or suggestion, but it worked, and I am not gullible about these things.

Reply to
Bert Byfield

Then contact the James Randi Educational Foundation

and claim your million dollars.

Reply to
Doug Miller

I can take a tin can lid, a piece of plate, or most any metal object, and the wires will cross when I walk over the object. This does not explain water in a PVC pipe, but I've used it for years.

One time, we were quail hunting, and I went with some Mormon friends. I dowsed a water line that flowed to a corral, and it was rumored that there was a break 500 yds north where quail congregated. When he saw me do it, I wasn't sure if he was going to allow me back in his truck for the 90 mile trip home. My other friend did some heavy talking, but he thought for sure I was something demonic. But normal people have that reaction sometimes, too. Is there something about me?

Steve

Reply to
SteveB

Uh-huh. Sure. Suggest you contact the James Randi Educational Foundation

and claim your million dollars.

Reply to
Doug Miller

About ten years ago I worked on a project removing underground fuel storage tanks and checking for contamination for a small city or big village sized area.

In the process I ended up drilling a couple hundred wells, logging the soils, and measuring the depth to water.

At the end of that time, I could go anywhere in the area and just by looking at the terrain, tell you what depth I'd hit water and what acquifer.

If I'd been a dowser, I'd have been sure I was doing it with the sticks. But it was just experience and local knowledge.

Reply to
TimR

So have _you_ actually tried it?

Harry K

Reply to
harry k

I remember a test being done on a college campus where students were to find a copper rod using dowzing. The rod was placed randomly at 10 different places along a path and it was found 30% of the time. That wouldnt get you Randi's million dollars but it would break a casino bank.

Jimmie

Reply to
JIMMIE

Beside the point. You have; you claim it works. Prove it, and you're an instant millionaire.

Reply to
Doug Miller

the landscape company i used to work for used the method several times a week to find irrigation lines when no plan was available. It does work.

s
Reply to
Steve Barker

First off, read what I wrote earlier. I don't "claim it works" as in "finds stuff". That the rods do move is a simple demonstration and as I said at least 1/2 of the people trying it will find they move on their own...at least if they are infulenced by the guy holding them it can't be detected...at least I can't.

Have I found stuff using the rods? Yes, but there were other clues to the the locations.

2 wells - proven by drilling - meaningless as here you can hit water almost anyplace.

Septic tank lines for a neighbor. I knew where the tank was but not where the field lay. Dowsed 2 lines correctly - meaningless as that was the only logical place for the field.

Water line traced 1/4 mile to an old school house. Dug at schoolhouse end to fnd that the line entered 180 degrees from where the rods said.

My own septic tank - but then I knew the general location.

etc. etc. etc. and at the end of the day the RODS WILL MOVE. Do they correctly show what I am looking for? Sometimes

Color me as a 'half skeptic'

You are claiming the rods don't show anything but are unwilling to try it yourself apparently.

Harry K

Reply to
harry k

No amount of cases of it working is going to convince Doug. He knows what he knows and apparently is not about to even try it.

Harry K

Reply to
harry k

How can that be? It has been stated here by people who are never wrong that it doesn't work. I'm confused.

Steve ;-)

Reply to
SteveB

Don't think I ever said it doesn't work... but I will say that there is no evidence that it does. Anyone who thinks otherwise has only to demonstrate it, under controlled conditions, to become an instant millionaire.

It's been at least twenty years... and James Randi still has his million dollars.

Reply to
Doug Miller

ya, and over on the right of the google page and the facebook page are offers for free cameras and laptops. There's always an out for the offer'er. I'm sure you could prove over and over to this James Randi person, and he'd have an out for not paying. It's just a bullshit offer. Plain and simple. The method has been used for centuries, and it does work.

s
Reply to
Steve Barker

Then why don't you go get the Million Dollar prize from the Amazing Randi's foundation? it's funny how there are SO many water witcher's with all these success stories yet not a one of them can find water when they have to do it under controlled conditions and when they could make a million dollars for a few hours work.

Reply to
Ashton Crusher

Years ago I read the actual challenge. Seemed to be set up so that it would be all but impossible to find the objects even with a map. It is set up so that it is 100 percent sucess or it is total failure. No partial success allowed.

The true skeptics should at least try it before being so adamant that it doesnt' work.

Harry K

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harry k

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