Have You Ever Dowsed?

Nathan said:
I watched a fellow maintenance mechanic demonstrate dowsing, in an effort to locate an underground water pipe. I wasn't impressed.
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There’s zero scientific evidence that anyone has that ability as far as I know. Hmm.
 

It worked for me. I use the "one stick" method. Here I have found some dark gooey stuff. :)

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stretch5881 said:
I have used L shaped wires with success.
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I have a set of copper wires that I used to locate our well spot over 25 years ago. I was taught by the guy I worked for that ran the water dept. I didn't believe in it, but for some reason it works.. I worked on locating a septic tank and drain field across the street for a septic company... those boys were amazed. I have located buried wires and water lines. I had called for utility locator to locate the buried phone lines along the road.
Before he came I had played with the witchcraft... I was within 6 inches of all his marks... for well over 200 Feet.
 
When we moved to NY, over 30 years ago the first thing we did was open up a spring we knew was on the land we, bought, and my husband put two plastic barrels in it to filter the spring water and then hooked the 200 feet of hosing down the slope ,to our home, a trailer, and we order a well professional.

He used a twig which seemed to have two ends opposite the part he held. Sort of a "Y". Mere minutes after he got here, he decided where the well should be. He brought up the digging equipment and 95 feet down he struck water. I believe the bill was 100 bucks per foot-then, BUT that price I bet is far more today.

I believe the new well pump I got last year was over the price of getting the well dug , with the pump included.
 
In the 1970's when I was a newbie engineer with the telephone company in NJ, I was out in the field with a veteran
lineman. We were trying to locate our underground cabe. The lineman pulled out of his tool box two right angle
wires with wood handles. He proceeded to walk through the field until the wires crossed and we located the cable.
I'm not sure if he was pulling my leg, but I was impressed.
 
Aunt Mavis said:
I’m not a believer but many are. I puzzled as to why anyone would believe but maybe I’m missing something. Dowsing.
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Not personally but maternal grandfather used them on his relatives' farm to find where the natural water table for new well was to be dug. That's one kind of usage I've learned about.

The second usage was to get answers from spirits. So, I've seen two sides of using dowsing rods.

This one is an introductory guide

I've done Pendulum Dowsing
 
Fascinating subject in my opinion, it always seems to be close to 50/50 as far as believers. It’s explained scientifically as Ideomotor effect, nothing supernatural. Oops.
 
I have dowsed many times, but not for water, I was
looking for buried electric cables, I used two short
pieces of gas welding rods, bent to 90 degrees at
the halfway point, they worked every time, I start
with them pointing forward and when I cross any
buried live cable, they both swung inwards, across
my body.

I was told when I learned this method, that you can
dowse, for anything as long as you think about what
it is that you are seeking, before you start.

There is an example of the bent rods in the picture of
the video above, posted by supernatural.

Mike.
 
Mike said:
I have dowsed many times, but not for water, I was
looking for buried electric cables, I used two short
pieces of gas welding rods, bent to 90 degrees at
the halfway point, they worked every time, I start
with them pointing forward and when I cross any
buried live cable, they both swung inwards, across
my body.

I was told when I learned this method, that you can
dowse, for anything as long as you think about what
it is that you are seeking, before you start.

There is an example of the bent rods in the picture of
the video above, posted by supernatural.

Mike.
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Yes! You've done it correctly. That's how they work👍
 
It's how my gramps found where to dig the well for his cabin in the mountains. It worked again when he needed to dig a second well.

When he decided to dowse for gold, his thin metal rods pointed to a location, and Grampa dug for a couple of days but he didn't strike gold. He said it was probably too far underground....too far for him to dig by hand.

He took me out to that area when I was 11 or 12, and he let me use the rods. They did pull downward over the spot where he'd done some digging. I told Grampa I'd help dig further, but he said no, because maybe there was just iron or some other common mineral down there.

He also let me use his wooden divining rod; a Y-shaped twig. We hiked around his property (which was huge), and I definitely felt tugging and then the pointy end pulled downward over a few spots. Grampa said there's water there.

So, I came away knowing that, according to Grampa, a wooden divining rod finds water and metal ones find minerals. I experienced the tugs and pulls myself, but didn't do any digging myself. I've just got Grampa's word on it.
 
I had a metal detector at one time. Potentially a lot of fun, but these days frowned upon by some local laws and property owners. Rather not discuss when and where I used it, but that which I found I donated to a couple of family members who are educators.
 

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